General secretary of the General Federation of Trade Unions GAWAIN LITTLE calls for support and participation in the national partnership organised to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the 1926 general strike
Labour's moderate promises on social housing: the bad news
As Angela Rayner pushes for a small but not totally insignificant number of council houses, SOLOMON HUGHES reveals how the Starmer-backed pro-developer Growth Group of MPs is likely planning to undermine this anyway

JULY saw two major new announcements on housing from the Labour Party. But the announcements, from Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner and the new Labour Growth Group of MPs, propose very different things.
Rayner wrote an Observer article saying Labour must deal with the housing crisis because it blights people who need decent homes. Rayner said she wanted to help “families struggling to cover soaring rents and meet mounting mortgage costs,” and “tenants paying through the nose for damp, cramped and unsafe conditions.”
Rayner promised Labour would push for “the biggest wave of social and affordable housing in a generation.”
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