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Labour conference: Anger at Starmer’s ‘divisive’ pledge to back ‘working people’

By John Pring on 29th September 2022 Category: Politics

Labour conference: Anger at Starmer’s ‘divisive’ pledge to back ‘working people’
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Labour’s leader has been accused by leading party activists of using “divisive rhetoric” and a “deliberate” failure to mention disabled people and others who are out of work in his main conference speech this week. Keir Starmer mentioned “working people” 25 […]

Activists’ anger after they discover Labour frontbencher is married to DWP director

By John Pring on 31st March 2022 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Activists’ anger after they discover Labour frontbencher is married to DWP director
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Disabled activists have questioned Labour’s commitment to justice for the countless claimants whose deaths were linked to the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), after it emerged that one of its senior frontbenchers is married to a DWP director-general. Rachel Reeves, […]

Anger as Starmer says Labour is ‘the party of working people’

By John Pring on 10th March 2022 Category: Politics

Anger as Starmer says Labour is ‘the party of working people’
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Keir Starmer has caused anger among disabled activists – including within his own party – after declaring publicly that Labour is “the party of working people”. The Labour leader’s comment, in a speech to Scottish Labour’s annual conference, has reignited concerns […]

Anger after Reeves tells benefit claimants: ‘Labour is not for you’

By John Pring on 20th March 2015 Category: Politics

Anger after Reeves tells benefit claimants: ‘Labour is not for you’
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Shadow work and pensions secretary Rachel Reeves has caused outrage among disabled activists after declaring in an interview that Labour was “not the party of people on benefits”. In an interview in the Guardian, Reeves said: “We don’t want to be […]

Miliband causes chaos with answer on ILF closure

By John Pring on 30th January 2015 Category: Benefits and Poverty, News Archive, Politics

Miliband causes chaos with answer on ILF closure
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Labour leader Ed Miliband caused chaos this week after he was asked if he would save the Independent Living Fund (ILF) if Labour won power at May’s general election. Miliband told the audience that the government “should not be getting rid […]

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