Nandy downplays welfare rebellion despite whip’s ‘honourable’ resignation
Lisa Nandy has insisted a major rebellion is not brewing over the government’s welfare reforms, describing the resignation of a party whip over the issue as an “honourable” but isolated incident. Vicky Foxcroft, a government whip and former shadow minister for disabled people, quit her frontbench role on Thursday evening, stating she could not vote […]
Haigh condemns ‘misogynistic’ and ‘sexist’ briefings against female ministers
Louise Haigh, the former transport secretary, said she was “really fed up” of reading negative stories about her colleagues.
Lisa Nandy says she would tackle the housing crisis if Labour were in power
Shadow levelling up, housing and communities secretary Lisa Nandy says that if Labour were in power, she would make the housing crisis “her personal priority” and pledged to increase the amount of amount of social housing. “Nothing is more important than a home”, Nandy added. During the 2022 Labour Conference taking place in Liverpool, she […]
Cost of living crisis threatens Homes for Ukraine scheme
The cost of living crisis is impacting people’s willingness to partake in the Homes for Ukraine Scheme, according to new data from the Office for National Statistics. 21% of current or previous sponsors said the rise in cost-of-living had impacted their ability to provide support “quite a lot” and 9 per cent said it had “very much” harmed […]
Labour accuse government of ‘clocking off’ amid heatwave
Labour have accused Boris Johnson and other ministers of “clocking off” amidst the Conservative leadership election. Shadow levelling up secretary Lisa Nandy told Sky News on Monday morning that Johnson has “clearly clocked off” along with “many of the ministers in his government”. Nandy argued that “today of all days” demonstrated her complaints regarding the […]
Labour critical of levelling up clause that allows U-turn
Levelling up secretary Michael Gove led the debate on his department’s levelling up legislation on Wednesday afternoon in which he committed to “strengthening local government and rebalancing our economy”. Gove highlighted the “absence” of Labour MPs present for the debate compared to Conservative MPs. Shadow secretary Lisa Nandy told the House of Commons that she […]
Levelling up Britain: Slogan or solution?
Do the Government’s plans finally address the regional disparities seen across the UK?
‘Leaseholders are blameless’ – Gove tells developers to pay for Cladding scandal
The housing secretary Michael Gove has argued that developers should “pay the price” for the cladding scandal, as he set out the government’s plans to fix the crisis in the House of Commons this afternoon. Gove told the Commons “it is morally wrong that they [leaseholders] should be the ones asked to pay the price.” […]
Nandy urges PM to personally intervene to release Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe
The shadow foreign secretary has today urged the Prime Minister to personally intervene to secure the release of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe from detainment in Iran. Lisa Nandy told the BBC this afternoon that ministers she has discussed the matter with “privately over last 11 years”, have “said this will only be resolved at the highest levels […]
Week in Review: When will Labour get real about how screwed it is?
At some point the party is going to have ask itself harder questions than the ones being heard during the leadership campaign.
