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Letters to the Editor – week ending 07 December 2025 – LabourList Read what people have been writing to our editor about this week. Find out how to share your own views here. Economical with the truth…

Find out what people have been writing to us about this week and how to share your own thoughts.

“You ever try to tell a story with no villain?” LabourList interview with Keith Ellison – LabourList https://youtu.be/NWfnEaxj3pI In the second of his fascinating series of interviews with global figures, LabourList international correspondent Muddassar Ahmed sat down with former Deputy Chair of…

Our international correspondent Muddassar Ahmed sits down with Minnesota Attorney General and leading Democrat Keith Ellison for a wide ranging discussion on UK and US politics, countering far right populism and even fish and chips!

‘Fair politics needs fair limits’ – LabourList What’s the most valuable thing money can buy? Increasingly, people in Britain fear the answer might be democracy itself. For a government elected on a…

For a fair system where politicians are accountable to the public, not just those who bankroll them we need limits on political donations.

EXCLUSIVE: Labour women’s conference plan and locals campaign priorities revealed – LabourList The Labour party women’s conference will be revived next year with only biological women allowed to vote, but a fringe programme and reception will be…

EXCLUSIVE: Labour's NEC finds compromise position that enables women's conference to return in 2026. And Labour will campaign on NHS, Families and Pride in Place in May.

‘Women and girls aren’t being heard when they talk about periods — we’re trying to change that’ – LabourList It’s not often you hear the worlds vulva, vagina or clitoris uttered in Parliament but that’s how our Women & Equalities Select Committee kicked off…

Honest language, better education and ending stigma are essential to improving menstrual health for women and girls says @sarahowen.org.uk

‘The Child Poverty Strategy shows why a Labour government matters’ – LabourList This is an adapted version of my analysis from the LabourList email this morning. To receive our email every weekday morning please subscribe here.  Yesterday I…

Labour can be proud of the strategy it has announced today. Now they must get on to deliver it. To realise the potential of all children. @emmaburnell.bsky.social on the government's Child Poverty Strategy

‘From maternity to inequality: evidence, consultation and context must be at the heart of the independent review into mental health’ – LabourList Yesterday the Government launched an Independent Review into mental health conditions, autism and ADHD. It is an expert-led and evidence-driven effort to understand the rise…

Ensuring the most robust evidence will mean the we make the right interventions on mental health says @laurakyrkesmith.bsky.social.

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Delivering in Government: your weekly round up of good news Labour stories – LabourList It was a busy week for Labour. And I wrote this before the Child Poverty Strategy was fully announced!  As the media unpicked the Budget,…

📣 🌹 GOOD NEWS! @sebastiansalek rounds up this week's Labour achievements in government. labourlist.org/2025/12/good...

‘The Tories sneer at ordinary Brits — Labour is determined to lift them up’ – LabourList Did you hear the words of the leader of the opposition? She said Labour's budget was a budget for ‘Benefit Street’. It was a flashback…

Labour's @allymcgovern.bsky.social fights back against the Tories 'Benefits Street' sneering at ordinary Brits.

Labour publish ambitious child poverty strategy to lift over half a million kids out of poverty by 2030 – LabourList Labour will launch its Child Poverty Strategy tomorrow, promising the biggest fall in child poverty in a single parliament since records began.  The government says…

Labour launch ambitious Child Poverty Strategy, promising around 550,000 children will be lifted out of poverty by 2030 and deliver Labour's 'moral mission'.

2026 mayoral elections to be postponed for two years, government confirms – LabourList Four inaugural mayoral elections that had been due to take place next May have been postponed until 2028, according to reports. Elections for new mayors…

🗳️ Communities secretary Steve Reed has confirmed that next year's four mayoral elections have been postponed until May 2028

'School readiness is rising – but so is the gap between poorer kids and their peers' - LabourList 'The gap between richer and poorer pre-schoolers is widening. The government must turn the tide to achieve its mission to break down barriers.

I've written for @labourlist.bsky.social on the government's early years policy - and where it is, and isn't, likely to deliver for young children from lower income homes:

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Paul Nowak column: ‘Let celebrate this historic step on child poverty – and follow it with work and childcare reforms’ – LabourList Amid the storm of post-budget fallout and blame games, it's important not to lose sight of the huge victory on the two-child benefit cap. This…

In his monthly column @paulnowaktuc.bsky.social of @tuc.org.uk celebrates the decision to end the two-child cap and looks at what should come next.

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🏆 Congratulations to the winning team 'The National Elf Service' (pictured above), as well as to second place 'The Woolslackers' and third place 'Santa Clause FourPlay'. The questions were tough, but you came out the victors.

🌟 A huge thanks to all of you who attended our Christmas quiz last night in Westminster - including our special guests @anneliesedoddsmp.bsky.social and @allymcgovern.bsky.social🌟

'Mahmood offers voters what they want - order, fairness and competence' - LabourList If Labour wants to balance negative perceptions of its asylum reforms, it must keep stressing the link between order and fairness.

If Labour wants to balance negative perceptions of its asylum reforms, it must keep stressing the link between order and fairness writes Muddassar Ahmed labourlist.org/2025/12/immi...

Senedd elections 2026: Who are Welsh Labour’s candidates? – LabourList Selection for Labour’s candidates for next year’s Senedd elections is well underway, with dozens chosen so far across the nation. Labour’s selections are based on…

🌹Welsh Labour have confirmed candidates for all but one constituency for next year's Senedd elections - check out the list so far here

Members oppose government’s asylum clampdown – but back specific measures – LabourList Almost two-thirds of Labour members are opposed to the government’s plans to make Britain’s asylum policy stricter, exclusive polling for LabourList reveals. Plans unveiled by…

Polling reveals almost two-thirds of members oppose the asylum reforms package, but support individual measures

LabourList Christmas Pub Quiz It’s time to sleigh the Labour trivia season! Join LabourList for an evening of festive fun and political puzzlers.

☕️🌤 A slow Sunday afternoon calls for making festive plans — like joining us at the LabourList Christmas Pub Quiz this week!

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LabourList Christmas Pub Quiz It’s time to sleigh the Labour trivia season! Join LabourList for an evening of festive fun and political puzzlers.

🎉 It’s Friday! New special guest announcement - Steve Reed MP will be joining us #BuildBabyBuild

After a week of budget chatter, we’re very ready for the weekend...and for the LabourList Christmas Pub Quiz next week.

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‘Labour puts down the Ming vase and picks up the bat’ – LabourList Since Keir Starmer was elected Labour leader, the party’s entire political strategy has been that of the ming vase: stay very steady and you won’t…

"Despite what the polls say, Labour have a huge mandate. For their own sake and for all of ours, Labour better use it." @compassoffice.bsky.social welcome the bravery on display in parts of the budget.

‘Day one rights were promised – Labour must deliver them’ – LabourList The cost of living crisis has pushed millions of workers to the brink, and the government’s own figures show what working people have long known:…

Day one rights were promised. Working people expect them. Labour must deliver them—fully, and without qualification argues A@andymcdonaldmp.bsky.social

Ben Cooper column: ‘Cost of living will decide Labour’s fate in ‘sea wall’ communities – LabourList At the last election, Labour won an unprecedented victory across the ‘Sea Wall’, a group of 105 coastal town constituencies across England and Wales. The…

The 'sea wall' is emblematic of the kinds of communities Labour must deliver for. The cost of living is what will matter there argues @bencooper1995.bsky.social in his latest column

Labour members think government is making progress on NHS, but divided on other manifesto pledges – poll – LabourList Labour members broadly think the government is making progress on tackling NHS waiting lists, but are divided on its record with other core 2024 manifesto…

📣 NEW POLL: Labour members see progress on the NHS but are divided on other manifesto commitments. labourlist.org/2025/11/mani...

‘Do the public want Labour to “Build, baby, build”?” – LabourList At the Labour Party Conference earlier in September, we saw Housing Minister Steve Reed handing out bright red hats emblazoned with the phrase “Build, baby,…

Do the public want Labour to "build baby, build"?
@luketryl.bsky.social on the need to balance building more homes with building good home with supportive infrastructure and access to nature.

‘To deliver day-one rights, unions like mine chose strategy over stalemate’ – LabourList Perhaps the strangest perception of trade unions that exists in the modern media landscape is that we are people who hate to negotiate.  I have…

'Unions secured stronger rights by returning to the negotiating table — delivering real protections for workers now' says Mike Clancy of @prospectunion.bsky.social