Election 2024: All Morning Wire’s winners and losers of the campaign trail this week June 1, 2024 Whether it’s stump speeches, policy implosions or just political gaffes, we’re bringing you the highs and lows from all parties.
Labour: GB Energy will turn the page on cost-of-living crisis with clean power May 31, 2024 Labour is pledging it will get working within months of election victory to build clean power that will “turn the page” on the cost-of-living crisis.
Election 2024: Where are all the London MPs standing down ahead of July 4? May 30, 2024 With the election now just a few short weeks away, CityA.M. has rounded up all the London MPs who are preparing to quit ahead of polling day.
General Election 2024: Richard Tice and Nigel Farage’s Reform call for ‘employer immigration tax’ May 30, 2024 Reform UK leader Richard Tice has announced plans for an “employer immigration tax” in a bid to reduce a UK “addiction to cheap overseas labour”.
General Election 2024: Hunt accuses Starmer of ‘flip-flopping’ on VAT hike May 30, 2024 The Tories and Labour are embroiled in a row over VAT after Chancellor Jeremy Hunt accused Keir Starmer’s party of “flip-flopping” over tax policy.
Labour pledges to increase police numbers to tackle rising street crime May 30, 2024 Labour is pledging to put more police on the streets in a bid to tackle rising street crime, which they say has gone up under the Tories.
Labour warned promise to clear NHS backlog ‘highly stretching’ May 29, 2024 Labour have been warned their pledge to clear the NHS backlog within five years will prove “highly stretching” and “no easy feat” by economists and policy experts.
Election 2024: Sunak wants to ‘scrap rip off degrees in favour of 100K apprenticeships’ May 29, 2024 Rishi Sunak has pledged to scrap “rip-off degrees” in favour of creating 100,000 more apprenticeships, in his latest election policy announcement.
For Labour, these last 24 hours have been years in the making May 29, 2024 She may not have much of a Texan drawl, but Rachel Reeves’ commitment yesterday to no new tax hikes under a Labour government certainly matched the import of George Bush Senior’s commitment more than three decades ago. It is a commitment that we, and much of corporate Britain, will hold her to if Labour does [...]
Economic performance under Labour and Conservative governments: a reckoning May 29, 2024 Voter apathy over the upcoming election is rational – history suggests the economic outcome will be broadly the same regardless of whether Labour or the Conservatives form the next government, says Paul Ormerod The election campaign has kicked off and already the air is thick with promises and counter-promises. Despite all the efforts of politicians [...]