Labour Outlook

“This virus feeds off inequality, targeting the poor & the vulnerable. But this Government is making deliberate choices - badly. Failure to provide adequate sick pay that people can live on & where all workers who need it can receive it is a political choice.” - Kate Osborne MP.

"As Brazil’s BLM & other progressive movements seek to put Bolsonaro alongside Trump in the dustbin of history, they deserve nothing less than our full international solidarity." - Claudia Webbe MP.

“There has been no Labour leadership against the Spy Cops Bill; nor against the immunity for prosecution for war crimes for members of the British armed forces, nor has Julian Assange been defended.”Steve Bell The new pamphlet "Open Labour & A Progressive Foreign Policy for New Times", (OL) represents the first salvo from Labour's new…

Continue reading ➞ The First Salvo from Labour’s New Cold War Warriors – Steve Bell, Stop the War Coalition.

"The banks were bailed out. We now need a People's Bailout," - Richard Burgon MP.

“No one wanted schools & colleges to be shut again but the evidence clearly pointed to the necessity for this to happen weeks ago... Government must take responsibility for this closure because it has allowed COVID-19 to become, again, out of control.” - Mary Bousted.

"Defending people's incomes needs to be a Labour priority right now - as making the poorest people poorer is the Tories agenda right now." Over 13,000 activists have signed our petition telling the Government 'Don’t Cut Universal Credit' write the Labour Assembly Against Austerity team. Over 13,000 Labour Party activists have warned Boris Johnson and…

Continue reading ➞ As Poverty Rises in Covid Crisis, Don’t Cut Universal Credit – 10,000+ back Labour Assembly Against Austerity petition

"Parents, children, teaching assistants, teachers, caretakers, lunchtime assistants, and office staff are looking to us, the Labour Party, to speak up for them."

“when the government should have been procuring quality PPE and ventilators, they first had to ensure that a few companies, with connections to the Conservative Party” “had access to a V.I.P lane” to give them an unfair advantage in the bidding process.”

"The Tories have spent 10 years prioritising wealth over health. Their austerity driven ideological assault on the state left in its wake a public sector woefully ill-equipped to deal with the crisis." - Jon Trickett MP.

"Neither sanctions nor blockades are the answer. There is no better path than democracy. There will be no better tool for solving problems than dialogue & coexistence." – José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, former Spanish Socialist Party PM