John McDonnell MP

Of course not. That’s why I will oppose.

Yvette Cooper, Foreign Secretary, has spoken of the humanitarian crisis in Sudan. This week Shabana Mahmoud, Home Secretary, supported safe & legal routes for refugees. So I’ve tabled an Early Day Motion calling on the government to establish a safe & legal route for Sudan crisis.

Tony Vaughan is one of the new MPs elected for Labour last year & in his contributions to Commons debates has displayed a considered approach to issues. He’s certainly not what the media would call a”usual suspect.”I suspect he is reflecting here what many in the PLP feel.

The Left Needs to Get Its Act Together Urgently to Beat Reform As Reform surges and we enter a ‘proto-fascist’ moment, it is vital that we reject both complacency and factionalism, and work out how to build a powerful leftist counter-movement — in parliament and ...

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Excerpt from column in The i Paper https://inews.co.uk/opinion/rachel-reeves-speech-income-tax-budget-labour-starmer-4020771 New research from the Unite union, which represents workers in the energy sector, found that energy companies made £30bn in profit from the UK energy system in 2024 – which equates to around £500 per household and a quarter of business bills. People expect a Labour Government to tackle obscene profiteering like this.

There's a case for raising income tax to fund public services, but there's a much stronger case to tackle the cost of living crisis by clamping down on profiteering.

Promotional poster featuring John McDonnell MP, with text thanking him and advocating for an end to the Brum Bin Strike. The image includes a portrait of John McDonnell centered between supportive messages.

BREAKING 🚨 | @johnmcdonnellmp.bsky.social has signed our campaign calling on Bham City Council to end the Brum Bin Strike.

@labouruk.bsky.social Councillors & MPs can add their support here: bit.ly/LabourEndTheBrumBinStrike

#EndTheBrumBinStrike #StrikeMap #LabourEndTheBinStrike #Birmingham

He labelled parliament 'the national gasworks'...

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Keir Starmer is stitching up the left – and it will seal his fate This deputy leadership election is arguably the most significant in the party’s history

MPs must use their power to ensure the party grassroots get a real choice – and a real debate about its future. There may not be one without it.

My new piece for @theipaper.com
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We were saddened and angered to hear that the Windrush: Untold Stories portraits have been vandalised.

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No Labour MP should be voting for the benefits bill Despite Starmer's U-turn on the terms, it is still the morally wrong choice

My new column for @theipaper.com on why Labour MPs should still oppose the cuts to disability benefits

"In what moral universe can it be wrong to take away that support from people in need today, but not for those in the same need tomorrow?"

Corporate Accountability After Grenfell | Briefing | Common Wealth How could new legal frameworks more effectively hold companies responsible for negligence?

On 14 June 2017, a fire at Grenfell Tower claimed the lives of 72 people.

In the fight for justice, one thing is clear: England needs stronger corporate accountability laws.

Here's what those laws should look like. 🧵
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Tin eared response from Labour spokespeople to election results so far. Labour supporters feel Labour, their party, has turned its back on them citing Winter Fuel Allowance, NI tax on jobs & threat of disability cuts. Message to ministers is drop the plans to attack disabled.

Today, the #MakeEqualityReal campaign went to Parliament to hand in our petition and meet with MPs.

⏰It’s time for a commission to commence the socio-economic duty & help end austerity.

Thank you @nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social for hosting and all the MPs that joined us.

#AntiAusterity

Happy Versaikhi to all my Sikh constituents & Sikhs worldwide. Running late from speaking at online meeting to make Gurdwara but caught up with procession & met so many of my old Sikh friends and many young families. Wonderful & joyous occasion.

Facing a global downturn & potential economic slump any rumoured “reset” of Labour’s economic strategy must recognise that this is no time to be cutting the benefits to disabled people & the poorest when they will be the hardest hit in any recession. Halt the planned austerity measures.

Free Mahrang Baloch! End disappearances and repression in Balochistan! Please add your name to this statement initiated by John McDonnell MP and Baloch activists and UK trade unionists in London. -- We the undersigned call for the release of Mahrang Baloch, leader of t...

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The government’s plans to cut £5 billion from the support to disabled people will result in immense suffering &, as we’ve seen in the past, loss of life. I have asked Ministers what monitoring will take place & what level of suffering will force a change of their cuts policy.

What Rachel Reeves should do instead of cutting benefits Labour was founded as the party of the working class

'Targeting “cost savings” on disability benefits is not only immoral, it is the opposite of everything a Labour government is supposed to be.'

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Trump backs Putin against Ukraine. History turns darker By Simon Pirani How bad can it get? When we strip away US president Donald Trump’s insults and temper fits, what can he actually do? First, he can withdraw US military aid to Ukraine – which he has…

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How the Tories crashed – but could recover Mike Phipps reviews Collapse of the Conservatives: Volatile Voters, Broken Britain and a Punishment Election, by Steve Rayson, published by Bavant. In March 2020, support for the Conservative …

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Oppose Reform on immigration, don’t mimic them, say a thousand Labour MPs and activists More than a thousand MPs, Labour members, trade unionists and campaigners have put their names to a statement urging the Labour leadership to pull back from its attacks on migrants’ rights.  T…

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“We didn’t lose our humanity” Today is the 500th day of the latest phase of Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza. Mike Phipps reviews a remarkable collection of writings by one of its victims, If I Must Die: Poetry and Prose, by Refa…

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Good to meet up with many of my friends in the Labour Animal Welfare Society campaigning with farmers to improve animal welfare standards.

Raising council tax won't solve our problems – just look at Croydon Even the best and most competent managers can’t make ends meet if the demand for services outstrips the resources allocated

"A decade of austerity hacked away local government finances, but demands on council services are rising due to an ageing population (social care), an unregulated housing market (emergency accommodation) & from increasing poverty (social services)"

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Guardian: UK high up in league of adenocarcinoma caused by air pollution.Quote from expert: “Yet still the government fails to take decisive action, just last week giving the go ahead to an additional runway at Heathrow which will undoubtedly increase air pollution”

On Falling On Falling – A stark and unflinching look at the gig economy.

On Falling - Watched this brilliant film produced by Sixteen Films, production company founded by Ken Loach & Rebecca O’Brien. Acting by Joana Santos & direction by Laura Carreira are superb. Please go & see it then join campaign for trade union rights. www.film-news.co.uk/review/UK/60...

The water industry shows how the state indulges corporations to the detriment of society Since 1989, water companies have been the subject of over 1,100 criminal convictions, but governments are content for them to control the industry.

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Letter from Labour's Environment Campaign - SERA Co-Chairs to Keir Starmer on growth Labour's Environmental Socialist Society

It is heartening that the Labour Party’s Environment group has come out against the Chancellor’s plans for a 3rd runway at Heathrow.
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I’ve listened to many of the Chancellor’s interviews on her 3rd runway & of the Prime Minister & ministers & I’ve struggled to hear a single word of sympathy for my constituents, who face being forced out of their homes & having their villages demolished. More than disappointing.