“I’m deeply saddened” to hear of the Jewish community’s concerns about the Labour Party, the Shadow Chancellor says.
In my view, they’d be mad not to make him a defining feature of their campaign. The party should be running a contrast campaign with ‘Corbyn’s Labour’.
It is time for the Commons to stop telling us what it’s against and to show what it’s for, which ought to be: this deal.
The start of the debate on the Queen’s Speech showed how the general election will be fought.
It’s a bit like the roof of Parliament’s Westminster Hall: which is held up by a lot of huge, ancient beams all resting on each other.
My new pamphlet for the Centre for Policy Studies sets out a programme which would empower voters truly to Take Back Control.
Plus: The far left really has captured Labour’s conference; too many Conservatives misunderstand the Supreme Court; and my conference agenda.
The Prime Minister’s opponents are entirely within their rights to condemn his choice of words, but not to the useful lie that he’s breaking new ground.
Would we deploy the phrase in a similar way to the Prime Minister yesterday? The answer is that we wouldn’t. Here’s why.
The workers being promised fewer hours for the same money would also have to fund huge increases in the cost of public services.
The Opposition set out plans to create a National Care Service, making such services free at the point of use in England.
In his need, Labour’s leader is turning for inspiration to a predecessor who will scarcely be at the top of his list of role models.
“I don’t trust him an inch”, says the Shadow Chancellor, as he justifies pinning the Government to office until Article 50 is extended.
Plus: I’ve never thought a national unity government is a runner, and I think it’s even less likely now.
It is capitalising on voters who weren’t born in the era of state monopolies having no idea how much worse these companies were under Corbyn’s dinosaur model.