The Government has urged departments to find savings to fund digital ID cards. But less than a 1/3 of voters back these anti-democratic plans. Instead of promoting popular policies, from public ownership to a wealth tax, Labour is reheating failed ideas from the Blair era.

"You don't need to be an expert to know that by abolishing the two-child benefit cap, half a million children will be lifted out of poverty" FBU general secretary Steve Wright on BBC Politics Live.

Kamran Ahmed, a Palestine Action detainee, has been admitted to hospital for the fifth time after 58 days on hunger strike. The Government must intervene immediately to ensure all four hunger strikers are treated with dignity and their human rights are upheld.

The Employment Rights Act is a historic step and the most important for workers in a generation, but there is more to do. Working people, unions and advocates must continue to push for a world where decent work isn't a privilege, but a guaranteed right. morningstaronline.co.uk/article/hist...

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The UK & other rich countries just gifted U.S. corporations’ a major exemption from int'l tax rules. The UK was already haemorrhaging an estimated $9 billion a year to tax-cheating US megacorps. 🧵Here’s what the latest capitulation to Trump’s bullying means... 1/9

"The UK must defend the Venezuelan people’s right to determine their own future and oppose any foreign interference." Sheffield Labour Councillor @mineshparekh.bsky.social Parekh for @labourlist.bsky.social.

The Starmer Government's dire poll ratings speak volumes. After 15 years of austerity and underinvestment, voters are crying out for real change. Labour must transform Britain, or risk losing more votes to Reform.

The TUC joins the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) and ITUC-Americas in expressing our ‘absolute and unequivocal rejection’ of the US military attack in Venezuela, and the abduction of President Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores. Yesterday's statement:

🚨🇻🇪 Oppose military action in Venezuela! Trump’s actions in Venezuela are illegal and dangerous. Share our motion in your CLPs calling for Labour MPs and the Prime Minister to publicly and unequivocally denounce these acts of aggression. ▶️ mtm.is/venezuelamotion

🚨 The UK must condemn this brutal attempt at regime change in Venezuela. Read our statement below 🔽

As always an excellently informative article by Naomi Klein.

The Labour Government must condemn this immediately.

In today’s @dailyrecord.co.uk.web.brid.gy since being elected, l've campaigned & pushed the government for the investment in Grangemouth that my communities need: £200m from the National Wealth Fund £120m saving 500 jobs £100m growth deal £14.5m in the Budget This is just the start for Grangemouth

Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

The UK is in desperate need of political renewal. Read my recent article for @bylinetimes.bsky.social about why Nigel Farage is not the answer. bylinetimes.com/2025/12/10/n...

It is concerning to hear two Palestine Action hunger strikers have been taken to hospital. The Government must intervene immediately to uphold their human rights and ensure they are treated with dignity.

A social housing victory at the ‘luxury’ Battersea power station development shows the power of grassroots politics – and holds a lesson for all of our cities. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Housing is not a product - it is a fundamental need. The solution is to invest in more council housing. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

The Government must act.

Congratulations to Andrea Egan @andrea4gs.bsky.social on her election as Gen Sec of UNISON. She backed the New Deal for Working People and will be a doughty campaigner for better pay and against outsourcing. Thanks too, to Christina McAnea, for all her work.

NEW: Andrea Egan’s win as UNISON General Secretary is the biggest step forward for the left in the labour movement for years. We look forward to working with UNISON and all progressive forces in trade unions to push for the transformative change working people are crying out for.

Members of Palestine Action are being held in prison on remand without trial. Some are taking part in a hunger strike and have not eaten for weeks. Granting them bail and allowing them to return to their families would be a start: showing a basic level of decency.

Scenes from today’s terror attack on Bondi Beach are truly heartbreaking. We must stand united against antisemitism and all forms of hatred and division. Solidarity with the victims and their loved ones.

Trump's seizure of an oil tanker off the of Venezuela is a flagrant violation of international law and part of an illegal regime change agenda that must be condemned by the international community.

The House of Lords is an outdated and anti-democratic institution. Instead of handing out peerages, a Labour Government must abolish it just like Starmer promised to in 2020 & 2022.

A majority of UK voters back a wealth tax. It’s time the Labour Government did the same.

Workers can be dismissed without cause nearly two years into a job, and under this compromise, almost half a year in. Opponents of the workers' rights reforms will return for more to weaken the Bill. I say to my colleagues on the front bench, be bold, take heart.

Labour NEC report A report from Labour’s National Executive Committee Away Day on 2nd December by left CLP reps. Deputy Leader’s Report Everyone congratulated Lucy Powell on her successful election. Lucy talked about rebuilding the voter coalition, including in the nations, and discussed the May…

The Government must invest in local government, protect jobs and rebuild our public services. Without proper funding, councils will continue to go bust and our communities will pay the price. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Barring trans women from taking part in internal Party democracy is divisive and cruel. Labour’s NEC should roll back this decision. The Government must also reject any EHRC guidance that enforces the exclusion of trans people from public life.

Lifting the two child cap was a key win for Labour MPs and anti-poverty campaigners. However, the Government's child poverty strategy does little to build on that success. We need more ambitious action than this.

Reform UK is a party of the few, for the few.

We don’t agree with keeping inheritance tax perks for wealthy landowners but suspending the whip from MPs simply for voting against the Government is intolerant and stifles debate. Markus Campbell-Savours should be reinstated.

Scrapping jury trials would undermine a foundational principle of British justice: the right to have your case heard by fellow citizens. We need investment and reform to tackle court backlogs, not the abolition of key legal safeguards.

This is a great initiative. At a time when far right politics is on the rise, it's more important than ever that we unite to reject narratives of division and racism. togetheralliance.org.uk/

Scrapping most jury trials will only weaken our democracy. These plans must be binned in full.

Billionaire wealth keeps piling up. Everyone else is left with less and less. With this mountain of pasta, I show why we need to tax the Billionaires.

Trump's escalating threats against Venezuela are the latest demonstration of the total contempt in which he holds international law. His bogus, paper-thin justifications for US military aggression should be called out for what they are: a fig-leaf for illegal regime change.

"More than 80 organisations in over 30 countries are planning actions against exploitative labour conditions." Today, we #MakeAmazonPay. Read more in EUobserver.

When Keir Starmer asked me to work with our Trades Unions to develop a programme for the biggest uplift in workers’ rights and protections in a generation, I did exactly as I was asked and we produced the New Deal for Working People. 1/11

Any dilution to the Employment Rights Bill is an attack on workers. Labour must commit to passing this Bill in full instead of pandering to its detractors in the Lords.

The scrapping of the two child cap was a major win for campaigners and the labour movement, and vindicates the MPs who voted against it. But without a radical overhaul of the economy, living standards will stagnate.

Just be Labour! John McDonnell MP sets out his thoughts on today’s Budget. The wave of relief that swept over the Parliamentary Labour Party was palpable when they heard the Chancellor confirm that the two child cap was at last to be scrapped. This is a huge victory for all those Labour MPs and…

🚨 "The Chancellor's decision to abolish the two child benefit cap is a welcome decision." Our statement on the Autumn Budget 🔽

Even David Lammy said “criminal trials without juries would be a bad idea”, back in 2020. This would weaken our democracy.

SHA view on the Budget proposals to reintroduce ruinous PFI in healthcare - Socialist Health Association sochealth.co.uk/2025/11/25/s...

@brianleishmanmp.bsky.social, who lost the Labour whip earlier this year for fighting against disability cuts, calls for real change to tackle the deepening crisis. Rising poverty, food insecurity, spiralling energy bills & housing costs - all while wages stagnate.

Today I’m delivering my open letter to the Prime Minister and Chancellor calling on them to: Tax Extreme Wealth - Tackle the Cost of Living Crisis. There’s still time to join over 20,000 others and add your name before I take it to Downing Street. 👇 bit.ly/TaxWealthAutumnBudget

'To suggest the failed asylum system is what's fuelling racism is kind of ridiculous - I think she knows that.' Labour Councillor Maurice Mcleod gives Natasha Devon his response to the 'disappointing' rhetoric from Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood.