Just as Australia’s prime minister Anthony Albanese changed his party, Keir Starmer has changed the Labour Party here. The pioneering postwar Australian prime minister Ben Chifley said in 1949 that the labour movement’s great objective was not to put an extra sixpence in somebody’s pocket, nor to make someone prime…

Labour cannot afford to seek solutions from the past for the challenges of today. Instead it needs to reclaim the language of security as it seeks to frame an offer to people about the future of their working lives. If you represent a seat like mine, you get used to…

Earlier this month, Labour’s Shadow Chancellor Anneliese Dodds shattered the glass ceiling in the world of economics by becoming the first woman to deliver the Mais lecture in its 43-year history. One of the most high-profile events of the year in the banking and finance community, she used her lecture to set out…

This article was originally published in the Sunderland Echo. To view the original click here. Labour has a vision for Sunderland. A vision of a revitalised city where everyone feels safe to walk the streets. A straightforward vision for policing and criminal justice. Labour is taking significant steps to see the…

This article was originally published in the Sunderland Echo. To view the original click here. Our country’s greatest asset is its people. However, the talents of too many are being wasted because of spiralling economic inactivity. Millions of people are being denied all of the benefits of good work. We’ve…

This article was originally published in the Sunderland Echo. To view the original click here.  Feeling safe where you live is not an outlandish expectation, but one of the basics of a safe, secure, law-abiding society. Yet, too many in our community don’t. I often hear from you about crime in…