LABOUR is challenging the government to help create hundreds of thousands of new jobs, with the majority of them in the manufacturing and green sectors.
The party will call on the Tories today to back a Build it in Britain scheme and support 400,000 new jobs for a green recovery from the coronavirus economic crisis.
Ahead of this month’s Comprehensive Spending Review, Labour is pressing for new high-skilled jobs in every part of Britain as part of a drive towards “a clean economy.”
Burnham’s billions for defence while councils and local services struggle will not deliver the change that Britain’s working-class communities need, says MICAELA TRACEY-RAMOS
PHILIP ENGLISH says military spending will not create the jobs young people need — instead, build an economy based around needs, not profit
The Communist Party of Britain’s Congress last month debated a resolution on ending opposition to all nuclear power in light of technological advances and the climate crisis. RICHARD HEBBERT explains why
One of the major criticisms of China’s breakneck development in recent decades has been the impact on nature — returning after 15 years away, BEN CHACKO assessed whether the government’s recent turn to environmentalism has yielded results