Labour

Politics

Welfare Reform bill scrapes through after major u-turn by Labour

The proposed bill on welfare for disabled people scraped through in the House of Commons yesterday, following several major U-turns by the government over...

Finance

A “positive step” as winter fuel payments reinstated ‘for millions of pensioners’

The reinstatement of winter fuel payments for millions of pensioners has been described as a “relief” to households across the North East. Chancellor Rachel Reeves...

Newcastle

Independent Councillor challenges Labour over ‘Unconscious Bias’ in internal email snub

A Newcastle councillor has raised concerns over what he describes as “conscious and unconscious bias and racism” within the city’s Labour Group, after a...

North East

Government yet to respond to TVCA letter, even after ‘six months’

Six months after sending a letter to the Government, a combined authority is still waiting for a response. Thursday 27 March marks exactly six months...

Newcastle

Newcastle Labour exodus as ex-council leader Nick Kemp and five others quit

The former leader of Newcastle City Council and five other councillors have quit Labour and wiped out the party’s majority on the local authority. In...

Bradford & Keighley

No confidence vote – held after fiery Council debate – fails

Bradford Council’s leadership team survived a vote of no confidence at a heated Council meeting where opposition parties argued they were “embarrassing” Bradford. Leader of...

Bradford & Keighley

Conservatives on Bradford Council call for other parties to back no confidence motion

Conservatives on Bradford Council are urging other opposition parties to back their vote of no confidence in the Council’s leadership. The party – the biggest...

Bradford & Keighley

Green Party councillors criticise Labour’s planning reforms as threat to local voices and housing needs

Labour's proposed planning reforms will silence local voices and impose huge house building targets that ignore real local need, Green Party councillors on Bradford...

Middlesborough

Labour MP Andy McDonald backs reversal of winter fuel allowance cuts amid party push for austerity rejection

Labour MP Andy McDonald has spoken in support of a motion passed at the Labour Conference to reject the proposed cuts to the Winter...

North East

Labour urged to ‘act now’ or leave thousands more children to be born into poverty

Labour must act more urgently to combat the North’s huge levels of child poverty now, experts have warned. As Sir Keir Starmer prepared to address...

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