Matthew Pennycook responds to EU Withdrawal Bill amendment
Matthew Pennycook, Shadow Brexit
Minister,
responding to the Government’s decision to accept the Procedure Committee’s
amendment to the EU Withdrawal Bill, said:
“It is encouraging that Ministers
have listened and accepted this change to the EU Withdrawal Bill.
“However, their concession does not
go far enough.
“Labour has been clear that when it
Labour criticises Theresa May for failing survivors and tower block residents in the six months since the Grenfell Tower fire
In the week of the six month anniversary of the Grenfell Tower
fire, Labour’s Shadow Secretary of State for Housing, John Healey MP has
written to the Prime Minister setting out five areas where the Government is
still failing Grenfell survivors and tower block residents across the country:
re-housing, testing...Read More »
Interim report launched into the UK’s financial system
Today the Shadow Chancellor launched Labour’s interim report into the UK’s financial system, led by economist Graham Turner of GFC Economics.
The report reveals that UK output from high-tech industries has fallen on average over the last ten years, with only one other EU member having a worse performance, with...Read More »
The further widening of the trade deficit is extremely worrying - Bill Esterson MP
Bill Esterson MP, Shadow Minister for International Trade, commenting on
today’s overseas trade statistics, said:
“The further widening of the trade deficit is extremely
worrying and shows just how little impact this Government has had on
bettering our international trade position since the creation of
the Department for International Trade.
"What today’s figures highlight once...Read More »
Jeremy Corbyn speech at the United Nation’s Geneva headquarters
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Speaking at the United Nation’s Geneva headquarters today, Jeremy Corbyn MP, Leader of the Labour Party, said:
Thank you Paul for that introduction.
And let me give a special thanks to the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development.
Your work gives an important platform to marginalised voices for social justice...Read More »