Tag: Labour Party (UK)

• Wednesday, March 26th 2025 - 05:19 UTC

  Jessica Toale MP visit to Falklands: Veterans deserve better than empty promises

  

  The following column was written in the Bournemouth Daily Echo by Jessica Toale, Labour MP for Bournemouth West. I recently visited the Falkland Islands with members of the British Armed Forces – part of a program I’m taking part in to gain a better understanding of the UK’s defense capabilities and the experiences of our service personnel.

• Thursday, March 13th 2025 - 10:31 UTC

  Labour has found out it needs to continue stimulating oil and gas production

  

  An oil industry information site has published a most interesting piece on the UK Labour government turn around in its oil and gas policy. The piece recalls that when the Labour Party of Keir Starmer won the latest UK elections, it vowed to stop new oil and gas exploration. The Starmer cabinet has stayed true to its word on that—but it is looking for ways to boost production through other means.

• Wednesday, December 11th 2024 - 10:09 UTC

  Labour pledges 150 major infrastructure projects and 1.5 million homes, biggest building boom in half century

  

  The new Labour government in Britain is pledging more giga-factories, solar farms, roads, and railway lines are set to be green-lighted in the next five years, adding billions to the economy, as part of stretching new milestones.

• Wednesday, July 31st 2024 - 08:00 UTC

  Labour anticipates a tax increase to fill a £22bn Tory “hole” in UK public finances

  

  UK Labour chancellor Rachel Reeves anticipated that the government of PM Keir Starmer will have to raise some taxes in October's Budget, following the claim on Monday that the previous Tory government left a £22bn “hole” in the public finances.

• Saturday, July 6th 2024 - 07:26 UTC

  Falklands Legislative Assembly congratulates new UK Government

  

  The elected Falkland Islands Legislative Assembly extends its congratulations to the Labour Party on their victory in the UK General Election. We also extend our congratulations to The Right Honorable Sir Keir Starmer on his election as an MP, and subsequent appointment this as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom by His Majesty The King Charles III.

• Friday, July 5th 2024 - 18:42 UTC

  Starmer goes through “kissing of the hands” and forms new UK gov't

  

  Sir Keir Starmer was sworn in Friday as the UK’s new prime minister in lieu of the Conservative Rishi Sunak who turned in his resignation following Thursday's appalling electoral defeat earning Labour at least 412 of the 650 seats in Parliament.

• Thursday, July 4th 2024 - 19:24 UTC

  Labour's landslide victory believed imminent

  

  Britain's Labour Party seemed poised to grab a decisive majority of around 270 MP posts in Thursday's snap elections as turnout surpassed even the most optimistic of expectations, it was reported from London.

• Thursday, July 4th 2024 - 09:55 UTC

  What can be expected on 4 July, Labour landslide or Conservative cataclysm

  

  This Thursday's 4 general election in the United Kingdom could prove catastrophic for the Conservative Party and influence its future evolution. After 14 years in office, the Tories appear destined for what experts call the worst general election result in its 190-year history. The dimensions of this defeat would be such that, according to the polls, the current prime minister Rishi Sunak could even become the first head of government to lose his seat in the Commons.

• Friday, June 14th 2024 - 08:24 UTC

  Tories and Labour committed to defend Falklands' sovereignty and Self Determination

  

  Britain is holding a general election next July 4 with the Conservatives in office since 2019, but also with a string of Prime Ministers in five years and much division among its lines, including the newly formed Reform party, while the opposition is dominated mainly by Labour and leader Keir Starmer.

• Thursday, November 23rd 2023 - 14:34 UTC

  Tories preparing for elections, “cut taxes to help businesses and boost economic growth”

  

  Election blues in Britain, the general election must be held before the end of January 2025, but the prime minister can call it earlier. And in effect, the ruling Conservatives claimed this week they had delivered the biggest tax cuts in decades in a move to boost the UK's stagnant economy and lift incomes.