“Back British farmers,” Keir Starmer tells Boris Johnson | Elliot Chappell | LabourList

Copied below is a LabourList article by Elliot Chappell, you can view the original post on the LabourList website here. Keir Starmer has demanded that the Prime Minister “back British farmers” by supporting the Labour Party’s plans to protect the UK from lower-standard food imports after the Brexit transition phase ends. The opposition party has argued…

How Starmer’s Labour plans to prioritise rural and coastal communities | Sienna Rodgers | LabourList

Copied below is a LabourList article by Sienna Rodgers following our Virtual Coast & Country Conference on Saturday 5th September, you can view the original post on the LabourList website here. Voters in rural and coastal communities are considered a key target by Keir Starmer’s Labour ahead of the next general election – the online…

Labour must stand with Britain’s rural workforce | Hywel Lloyd

In these extraordinary times, the opportunity to imagine other times and places, to daydream, or to simply enjoy the imaginary worlds of TV and radio, have been a solace to many as they manage their lives from home. For many, the most appreciated ‘place’ is their regular dose of soap – not the hand-washing sort,…

The politics of justice – enforcing the minimum wage

I was astonished and genuinely outraged (as others have been) at the reported remarks of my MP Conservative George Freeman. When answering questions about the low enforcement and prosecutions for those not paying the minimum wage (under this government, there have only been 9, prosecutions and 162 named and shamed) Freeman talked about this criticism as…

What Labour could do for Coast & Countryside Communities

With the General Election campaign emerging from the festive break every Prospective Parliamentary Candidate (PPC) is rightly concerned with building on their exposure and contact rate in each and every constituency across the UK. For those fighting non-urban seats – be that the 30+ marginals we need to hold or win for a majority, the…