Tag: Labour Party
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UK Won’t Relax Visa Rules for India, Starmer Says Today
Starmer Signals No Visa Relaxation Despite UK-India Trade Deal In a high-profile visit to Mumbai and with a delegation of more than 100 UK entrepreneurs, cultural leaders, and university leaders, Sir Keir Starmer made clear the Labour stance on immigration policy ahead of and during the UK’s ongoing effort to bolster trade with India. He…
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UK Won’t Relax India Visa Rules, Starmer Says Ahead of Mumbai Visit
Key Message: No Visa Liberalisation Tied to Trade Deal In a high-stakes visit to India, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer underscored a clear boundary between the recent UK-India trade agreement and immigration policy. As he leads a delegation of more than 100 entrepreneurs, cultural leaders, and university vice chancellors toward Mumbai, Starmer emphasised that the…
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UK Plans Longer Route to Refugee Settlement and Ends Automatic Family Reunification
Introduction: A shift in the asylum pathway The government says it will replace the current five-year route to indefinite leave to remain with a longer path for refugees to settle in the UK, contingent on contributing to society. Alongside this, the route that allowed refugees to automatically bring close relatives to the UK—suspended in September—will…
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Powell and Phillipson clash over Labour’s deputy leadership and the path to change
Closing speeches set the tone for Labour’s deputy leadership race As Labour’s annual conference drew to a close, the party’s deputy leadership contest took centre stage. The two candidates, Lucy Powell and Bridget Phillipson, faced questions from members as they framed the election as a choice about Labour’s future direction. Powell, who was sacked from…
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Powell vs Phillipson: Labour deputy leadership and division risk
Powell and Phillipson at the Labour conference hustings As Labour’s annual conference edges toward its closing speeches, the party finds itself debating not just public policy but the leadership dynamics that could shape its path for years. The two candidates vying for the deputy leadership, Lucy Powell and Bridget Phillipson, used the hustings to frame…
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Powell Labour deputy leader: Unity vs division warned
The central clash at Labour’s conference: unity or division As Labour’s annual conference moves into its closing speeches, the race for the party’s deputy leadership between Lucy Powell and Bridget Phillipson has crystallised into a defining question for the party: will Powell’s candidacy anchor Labour in a new era of unity with backbench voices at…
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Growth Is Antidote to Division: Starmer at Labour Conference
Growth as the antidote to division Keir Starmer is using his Labour conference address to argue that sustained economic growth can be the antidote to the disorder sown by populist right forces. He emphasizes that growth should lift living standards for people across all regions, not just a select few, and that the way wealth…
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Starmer: Growth Is the Antidote to Division at Labour Conference
Keir Starmer’s growth message: the antidote to division Keir Starmer is positioning economic growth as the central answer to a country he says is at risk of pulling apart. In a speech planned for the Labour conference in Liverpool, he will insist that growth can be the force that unites communities and raises living standards,…
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Keir Starmer: Growth Is the Antidote to Division for Britain
Keir Starmer frames growth as the antidote to division In a bid to reassert Labour’s direction at the party’s annual conference in Liverpool, Prime Minister Keir Starmer cast economic growth as the crucial antidote to the divisions he says are stirred by the populist right. He argued that how growth happens — and who benefits…
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Beat Reform UK: Labour must debate its future direction
Burnham calls for a bold Labour debate on direction Andy Burnham used a fringe event at the Labour party conference in Liverpool to issue another pointed reminder that Labour should not underestimate the peril it faces. Speaking at a session hosted by the Re:State think tank, the mayor of Greater Manchester said he was intent…