“As the stark reality of the climate emergency becomes clearer & clearer, many of our political leaders have their heads in the sand.” John Mcdonnell, labour List, 15 August 2023. The UN General Secretary António Guterres recently commented that “The era of global warming has ended; the era of global boiling has…

John McDonnell has argued that the left of the Labour Party needs to mobilise to “save” an incoming Labour government “from itself”, claiming that compassion was “in limited supply” at a meeting of the party’s policymaking body over the weekend. Speaking at an event alongside left-wing attendees of Labour’s National…

I, too, want to focus on the issue of children. The hon. Members for East Worthing and Shoreham (Tim Loughton) and for Westmorland and Lonsdale (Tim Farron) discussed the coalition Government effectively banning the detention of children in 2014, which we all welcomed. I was part of the campaign to…