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Rebecca Long-Bailey

Labour’s new leader faces pressure to follow through on campaign rights pledges

By John Pring on 9th April 2020 Category: Politics

Labour’s new leader faces pressure to follow through on campaign rights pledges
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Keir Starmer is set to face pressure from the disabled people’s movement to commit his party to keep a series of pledges he made during his successful campaign to replace Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader. Among the most striking of those […]

Labour leadership: Starmer backs calls for free social care

By John Pring on 13th February 2020 Category: Politics

Labour leadership: Starmer backs calls for free social care
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The MP leading the race to be Labour’s next leader has become the first candidate to back calls by disabled people’s groups for the introduction of free social care, funded by national progressive taxation. Sir Keir Starmer, Labour’s shadow Brexit secretary, […]

Labour leadership: Long-Bailey promises policy partnership with disabled people

By John Pring on 6th February 2020 Category: Politics

Labour leadership: Long-Bailey promises policy partnership with disabled people
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One of the front-runners to be Labour’s next leader has pledged to work in partnership with disabled people to develop party policy, if she wins the contest. Rebecca Long-Bailey, the shadow business secretary and seen as the leading candidate for those […]

Archive shows how Labour’s five would-be leaders have highlighted rights

By John Pring on 16th January 2020 Category: Politics

Archive shows how Labour’s five would-be leaders have highlighted rights
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The five candidates to be the next leader of the Labour party have raised issues such as accessible transport, the closure of the Independent Living Fund and the deaths of benefit claimants over the last 10 years, a new analysis has […]

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