Aletha Adu

1 week ago | aol.co.uk | Jessica Elgot |Aletha Adu |Eleni Courea

Labour MPs have ramped up pressure on the Treasury, calling for an economic reset after the Reform UK surge in the local elections and saying that the economy is stuck in a “doom loop”. The warning comes from the influential Labour Growth Group (LGG), a large caucus of loyalist new MPs who have lobbied the government to go further on planning and energy reforms. Its chair said that, without drastic action, the Reform UK leader Nigel Farage was on course to become prime minister.

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Aletha Adu

Louise Haigh has urged Keir Starmer to avoid a “simplistic and naive” response by lurching to the right after Reform UK’s success in the local elections, in her first interview since being in effect sacked as transport secretary. The former cabinet minister warned the prime minister to “pick some battles” with the right as it would not be enough to ask progressive-minded voters to back Labour at the next election just to keep Nigel Farage out of power.

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Aletha Adu

Tony Blair has come under criticism from climate experts after warning that any strategy relying on rapidly phasing out fossil fuels is “doomed to fail”. The former prime minister’s comments, published in a new report from the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change (TBI), triggered an internal row within Labour, with some accusing him of playing into the hands of a narrative used by rightwing parties to delay climate action.

3 weeks ago | msn.com | Aletha Adu |Kiran Stacey

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3 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Aletha Adu |Kiran Stacey

Ministers are scrambling to avoid a damaging rebellion this summer when MPs vote on controversial cuts to disability benefit payments, even offering potential rebels the chance to miss the vote altogether. The government is due to hold a vote in June and dozens of Labour MPs are worried it will hurt their constituents and could cost them their seats.