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  • Alok Sharma – 2020 Comments on Green Home Grants

    Alok Sharma – 2020 Comments on Green Home Grants

    The comments made by Alok Sharma, the Secretary of State for Business and Energy, on 28 August 2020.

    Green Homes Grants are a key part of our plans to build back greener, helping make 600,000 homes more energy efficient with government vouchers, while supporting 100,000 skilled jobs and supporting our transition to net zero carbon emissions by 2050.

    From today people will have the chance to see how this scheme could help save money on their energy bills and connect to trusted local tradespeople across the country, so they are ready for the scheme’s launch in September.

  • Lucy Powell – 2020 Comments on Workers Returning to Offices

    Lucy Powell – 2020 Comments on Workers Returning to Offices

    The comments made by Lucy Powell, the Shadow Minister for Business and Consumers, on 27 August 2020.

    It beggars belief that the Government are threatening people like this during a pandemic. Forcing people to choose between their health and their job is unconscionable. Number 10 should condemn this briefing and categorically rule out any such campaign.

  • Lucy Powell – 2020 Comments on the Automotive Sector

    Lucy Powell – 2020 Comments on the Automotive Sector

    Comments made by Lucy Powell, the Shadow Minister for Business and Consumers, on 27 August 2020.

    The UK’s world-leading automotive industry has been rocked by coronavirus and livelihoods are on the line. But Ministers won’t listen to reason and are refusing to recognise some sectors have been hit harder than others.

    They must urgently target support at the sectors that need it with a focus on creating skilled, green jobs – and do right by the communities across the UK they promised to protect.

    Anything less would be a betrayal of many communities which helped get Boris Johnson elected.

  • Cat Smith – 2020 Comments on Children Society Report

    Cat Smith – 2020 Comments on Children Society Report

    The comments made by Cat Smith, the Shadow Minister for Young People, on 28 August 2020.

    This eye-opening [Good Childhood] report lays bare the stark pressures and difficulties faced by young people in the UK, compared to those in other European countries.

    Young people and children have been left behind since long before the Coronavirus crisis. With children in the UK ranking lowest for life satisfaction across Europe, the Government remain utterly out-of-touch with the real struggles faced by young people.

    The Government must finally provide a comprehensive measurement of children’s well-being in order to properly quantify changes and target resources.

  • Bill Esterson – 2020 Comments on Ed Davey

    Bill Esterson – 2020 Comments on Ed Davey

    The comments made on Twitter by Bill Esterson, the Labour MP for Sefton Central, on 27 August 2020.

    None of this sanctimonious self justification. Ed Davey was a cabinet minister in Cameron’s government. He supported austerity, the Health and Social Care Act and Gove’s destruction of our schools system. The Lib-Dems were willing Tory accomplices and Davey was at the forefront.

  • Emily Thornberry – 2020 Comments on the Appointment of Tony Abbott

    Emily Thornberry – 2020 Comments on the Appointment of Tony Abbott

    The comments made by Emily Thornberry, the Shadow Foreign Secretary, on 26 August 2020.

    Any way you look at it, this is an absolutely staggering appointment. On a personal level, it is shameful that Boris Johnson thinks this offensive, aggressive, leering, gaffe-prone misogynist is the right person to represent our country overseas.

    And on a professional level, this is someone with no hands-on experience of negotiating trade agreements, who denies the climate change that we believe should be at the heart of our trade policy, and who clearly has no concept of the importance of Britain’s trade with the EU.

    He was ousted by his own colleagues after just two years in power, and rejected by his own constituents just last year. They are the people who know him best, and wanted rid of him, yet here we are now, hiring him to negotiate our trade deals around the world.

    It’s yet more breathtaking incompetence from a government that has turned it into an art-form.

  • Kate Green – 2020 Comments on Sacking of Jonathan Slater

    Kate Green – 2020 Comments on Sacking of Jonathan Slater

    The comments made by Kate Green, the Shadow Education Secretary, on 26 August 2020.

    Under this Government civil servants have time and time again taken the fall for the incompetence and failures of Ministers.

    Parents will be looking on in dismay at a government in complete chaos just a matter of days before children will return to schools.

    Leadership requires a sense of responsibility and a willingness to be held accountable, qualities this Prime Minister and his ministers utterly lack.

  • Anneliese Dodds – 2020 Comments on Payments to Those Self-Isolating

    Anneliese Dodds – 2020 Comments on Payments to Those Self-Isolating

    The comments made by Anneliese Dodds, the Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer, on 27 August 2020.

    Effective local lockdowns depend on people self-isolating when they’re supposed to. Labour has been warning for months that the Government needs to make sure that people can afford to do the right thing, but once again Ministers have taken far too long to realise there’s a problem.

    Just last week the Chancellor suggested there was no need to change the system for people who have to self-isolate. Now the Health Secretary – who confessed that Statutory Sick Pay in the UK isn’t enough to live on – thinks the solution is to offer people who aren’t currently eligible the same limited level of support.

    It’s concerning that this will only apply to a limited number of areas with high rates of Covid-19. The instruction to self-isolate applies to everyone in the country, so everyone should get the support they need to self-isolate.

  • Jonathan Ashworth – 2020 Comments on IPPR’s Report

    Jonathan Ashworth – 2020 Comments on IPPR’s Report

    The comments made by Jonathan Ashworth, the Shadow Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, on 27 August 2020.

    Radically improving children’s health and wellbeing is a priority for Labour. This report is a stark reminder we are amidst a childhood obesity crisis and that we need concerted government effort to bring obesity levels down. But instead of prioritising immediate action, ministers are embarking on a risky reorganisation including abolishing Public Health England and now can’t even tell us who will be responsible for driving forward obesity work.”

  • Sarah Jones – 2020 Comments on Violent Crime

    Sarah Jones – 2020 Comments on Violent Crime

    The comments made by Sarah Jones, the Shadow Minister for Policing and Fire, on 27 August 2020. Jones was referring to new ONS crime figures.

    These figures show an expected reduction in most offences during lockdown. However, it is concerning that violence recorded by the police is already returning to pre-lockdown levels.

    After a decade of cuts to police and preventative services, we need real action from the Government to tackle the issues that drive violence on our streets.