The government's homelessness minister, Alison McGovern MP, has described the increased number of deaths as an "abject failure that cannot be tolerated".

The government's homelessness minister, Alison McGovern MP, has described the increased number of deaths as an "abject failure that cannot be tolerated".

The chancellor will commit to "the abolition of long-term youth unemployment" in her speech at Labour conference.

Government sets out ambitions for a social rent revolution through the new £39 billion Social and Affordable Homes Programme.

The current state of Labour’s. leadership election is not what I had expected, to say the least.

The introduction of Hillsborough Law marks a turning point in the relationship between citizen and state in the United Kingdom.

The introduction of Hillsborough Law marks a turning point in the relationship between citizen and state in the United Kingdom.

Deputy PM says legislation will ensure public officials have duty to act with ‘honesty and integrity at all times’ * The guilty escape justice. Well, not any more | David Lammy Public servants who deliberately cover up state-related disasters will face up to two years in jail under a new Hillsborough law, David Lammy has promised, following concerns from campaigners that it could be watered down. Writing in the Guardian, the deputy prime minister and lord chancellor said legislation would ensure that state actors from “the bobby on the beat to the highest office in the land” will face “serious punishments for serious wrongdoing”. Continue reading...

Melvyn Bragg is retiring from “In Our Time”

We can never give in to the forces that would divide us and send us backwards.  The answer is the Labour winning over a broad coalition for our future.

We can never give in to the forces that would divide us and send us backwards.  The answer is the Labour winning over a broad coalition for our future.

Exclusive: Alison McGovern says party needs emotive storyteller to fight against division promoted by Reform