Letter from Mark Langabeer, Hastings and Rye Labour member Rachel Reeves recently announced changes to public sector (local government) pension schemes. She wants to roll
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Letter from Mark Langabeer, Hastings and Rye Labour member The Budget has gone down badly with many employers. The supermarket chains claim that it will

TV review by Mark Langabeer, Hastings and Rye Labour member This week, the Channel 4 Dispatches programme, for the first time broadcast details of the

Letter from Mark Langabeer, Hastings and Rye Labour member Bridget Philiipson, the Education Secretary, announced an increase in tuition fees of over 3%, the first

By Michael Roberts The newly elected Labour government’s first budget has just been presented. Rachel Reeves, the UK finance minister (called Chancellor of the Exchequer

Letter from Mark Langabeer, Hastings and Rye Labour member The budget was described as a traditional Labour Party budget. ‘Tax and spend’ was the cry

Editorial: despite the hype, this was not a budget for ‘working people’
If there is one thing that can be said for Rachel Reeves’ budget, the first ever by a woman Chancellor of the Exchequer, it was

First Labour government ended a hundred years ago
By Mark Langabeer, Hastings and Rye Labour member The first Labour Government was elected in January 1924 and subsequently fell in the general election nine

By Andy Ford, Unite Health NIC The perils of privatised ambulance services have just been shown, yet again, by the collapse of ‘SVL Homecare’ in

By Mark Langabeer, Hastings and Rye Labour Party member The BBC recently broadcast a programme on the attempt by the IRA to assassinate Margaret Thatcher