Labour

I’ve voted Labour all my life but can’t forgive ‘freebie’ Starmer for Winter Fuel raid’_Nhy

Linda Southall never believed that Labour would take her Winter Fuel Payment away (Image: Getty) Linda, 67, was so into Labour politics that she would take a week off work simply to watch the party’s annual conference. Yet she still couldn’t…

Labour accused of ‘a naïve attempt to suck up to China’ as David Lammy arrives in Beijing amid claims ministers have gone soft over Uyghur ‘genocide’_Nhy

Labour was accused of ‘a naïve attempt to suck up to China’ today as foreign secretary David Lammy arrived in Beijing for talks. The Foreign Secretary has been accused of backtracking on plans for the UK to formally recognise China‘s treatment of its Uyghur Muslim minority as genocide….

Rachel Reeves to hammer families in Budget by ‘cutting inheritance tax and stamp duty relief’ while upping fuel duty to help fill Treasury coffers (and vaping will cost more too)_Nhy

Middle class families appear to be facing a Budget pummelling from Rachel Reeves as she looks to end tax breaks in a scramble for cash. The Chancellor will reportedly end a temporary increase to the stamp duty threshold, landing buyers with a…

Elon Musk joins Republican ‘outrage’ as UK’s Labour Party sends 100 staff to help Dems win in swing states_Nhy

Elon Musk has joined Republicans in their outrage after the UK’s Labour Party is set to send 100 staff to help Democrats in swing states. Activists from Keir Starmer‘s party will spend the next fortnight canvassing for Kamala Harris in four key states ahead of the November 5 election….

DAILY MAIL COMMENT: Labour’s cynicism returns to haunt it_Nhy

The embarrassing mess Rachel Reeves finds herself in over the forthcoming Budget is a direct consequence of Labour’s dishonesty during the election campaign. She and Sir Keir Starmer insisted their commitments were fully costed and that it would be possible to boost public spending…

Almost 63,000 asylum seekers whose cases were held by Tory government could be given permission to remain by Labour_Nhy

Almost 63,000 asylum seekers whose cases were placed on hold by the Tories could be granted permission to stay in Britain under Labour. A report by the Refugee Council predicts a significant increase in granted claims thanks to changes brought in by…

Labour embroiled in new cronyism row over appointment of over 200 civil servants bypassing usual hiring process since election_Nhy

Accusations of cronyism were levelled at the Labour Party after it emerged that more than 200 individuals have been given civil service jobs since the election without an open appointment process. Official figures show that the Government has circumvented normal rules on…

Labour’s poll tax: Business fury at Reeves’s plan to hike national insurance- as Chancellor STILL refuses to rule out raising employers’ contributions_Nhy

Hiking national insurance will become Labour‘s ‘poll tax’, Rachel Reeves has been warned. In the most vehement criticism yet, business leaders reacted with fury as Treasury officials refused to rule out raising employers’ NI contributions. Both the Chancellor and the Prime Minister have…

Labour has let slip what we knew all along on winter fuel payments – Mel Stride_Nhy

Shadow work and pensions secretary Mel Stride (Image: Getty) The Government aren’t processing one in five pension credit claims within 50 working days, and that’s before the expected surge in applications for this winter. That means some pensioners will suffer the uncertainty of…

Labour may hike inheritance tax to 50% and tax every gift you get in brutal Budget raid_Nhy

Labour refuses to say what it will do to inheritance tax but it may have big plans (Image: Getty) Labour is yet to reveal its plans for the controversial “death tax”, but with PM Keir Starmer pledging not to raise taxes on “working…