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No way to Galloway

Suggestions that George Galloway should be readmitted to the Labour party are rather bewildering. As chair of the women’s parliamentary Labour party, I am sure that there would be an almighty revolt. Galloway has an ugly track record in opposing Labour women. Talk to...

Time for Labour to step up on PCC campaigning

Discussions of May 2016 as the first real test of Jeremy Corbyn's leadership of the Labour party focus on local council elections but rarely mention another election taking place on the same day: that of the country's police and crime commissioners. Andy Burnham's...

Think the housing crisis can’t get worse? Think again

In Lambeth, where I am a councillor, we have over 21,000 people on our waiting list. The average waiting time for a family home for people in high priority is around five to eight years. Private rents have soared and being evicted from a private tenancy is now the...

Time for action on steel, not more summits

On Monday 9 November European Union trade and business ministers met in Brussels to discuss a common European response to the crisis hitting the steel sector. This 'steel summit' took place exactly four weeks after it was announced that steel production in Redcar...