Sue Hayman responds to Government animal welfare bill
Sue Hayman MP, Labour’s Shadow Secretary for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, commenting on the Government’s publication of a new Animal Welfare Bill, said:
“This is a rushed and haphazard attempt to backtrack on the Government’s mistake of not including animal sentience in the EU Withdrawal Bill.
“There are serious questions about...Read More »
Shocking that Government would rather give billions to big banks than invest in children's services - Dowd
Peter Dowd MP, Labour’s Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury, commenting on the vote on Labour’s reasoned amendment to the Finance Bill said:
“It is deeply shocking that this Government would rather give billions away to the big banks than invest in children’s services.
“This Bill does nothing to reverse seven years...Read More »
Matthew Pennycook responds to EU Withdrawal Bill amendment
Matthew Pennycook, Shadow Brexit
Minister,
responding to the Government’s decision to accept the Procedure Committee’s
amendment to the EU Withdrawal Bill, said:
“It is encouraging that Ministers
have listened and accepted this change to the EU Withdrawal Bill.
“However, their concession does not
go far enough.
“Labour has been clear that when it
Labour criticises Theresa May for failing survivors and tower block residents in the six months since the Grenfell Tower fire
In the week of the six month anniversary of the Grenfell Tower
fire, Labour’s Shadow Secretary of State for Housing, John Healey MP has
written to the Prime Minister setting out five areas where the Government is
still failing Grenfell survivors and tower block residents across the country:
re-housing, testing...Read More »
Interim report launched into the UK’s financial system
Today the Shadow Chancellor launched Labour’s interim report into the UK’s financial system, led by economist Graham Turner of GFC Economics.
The report reveals that UK output from high-tech industries has fallen on average over the last ten years, with only one other EU member having a worse performance, with...Read More »