Andrew Gwynne, Shadow Communities and Local Government Secretary, joined staff outside Bromley Central Library who are on strike over cuts to their services. Workers at 14 libraries across the borough of Bromley, in South London, voted to go on strike in June to...
The heatwave of a few weeks ago is beginning to seem like a dim and distant memory. Whilst it’s not time to don your scarfs and jumpers quite yet, there’s certainly a bit of a nip in the air. For many of us, that means turning thermostats back up and radiators back...
This week, the Shadow Cabinet exchanged our usual stuffy room in Parliament for the wonderful surroundings of the Lowry in Salford. It wasn’t just the convenience (for me at least!) of taking a short tram ride that made Salford a perfect location – part of the reason...
We all remember seeing pictures in our school history books of factories and mills belching out smoke, or Lowry’s matchstick men, cats and dogs striding around beneath countless smoking chimneys. It’s an important part of our industrial heritage, but these scenes have...
He’s only gone and done it again! Influential Conservative MP – and former leader – Iain Duncan Smith has come up with another one of his bright ideas. Not content with cocking up the welfare system with the introduction of his shambolic Universal Credit, he is now...
