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John McDonnell’s contribution to the Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill

John McDonnell’s contribution to the Westminster hall Debate on Intellectual Property: Artificial Intelligence

This government has one last chance to take a progressive path. Otherwise, we’re at the point of no return: John McDonnell: Guardian opinion 25-3-25

In her spring statement, I urge Rachel Reeves to look beyond short-term economic stability – and towards tackling long-term inequality. If someone read out the following list of policies, which party would you think was in power? Depriving 2 million pensioners of the winter fuel allowance. Refusing to scrap the…

John McDonnell’s contribution to the Employment Rights Bill

I draw the House’s attention to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests. I wish to deal with new clauses 8 and 9, which relate to recognition of the POA’s right to strike. I therefore also declare that I am an honorary life member of the POA. The…

Advice to Keir Starmer: stop the fawning over Trump. Then help plan for a better world without him

John McDonnell Guardian opinion 5 March 2025 There are only so many times Donald Trump can be offered a state and royal visit to temper his political tantrums. With his latest attacks on Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the halting of aid to Ukraine, it’s already clear that not even the offer of a bed…

John McDonnell’s contribution to the Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill

I do not want to repeat what has been said by others, but I will share my perspective on the Bill. It is in two parts, and there is almost unanimity about the first part, which deals with how we tackle fraud carried out through contracts and so on. I…

John McDonnell’s contribution to the Westminster Hall debate on Outsourcing Government Departments

I have come to this debate because of our recent experiences of visiting picket lines, with regard both to Government Departments and, in particular, the railway sector. I have been a trade union rep in the public sector, but I have also been a manager in the public sector: I…

John McDonnell’s contribution to the Westminster Hall Debate on the Welfare Cap

I hope that the Government will consider completely scrapping this debate in future years, because it has become farcical. The right hon. Member for Islington North (Jeremy Corbyn) will remember that the welfare cap was introduced because of the Dutch auction that was going on in this Chamber about who…

John McDonnell’s contribution to the Westminster Hall debate on Women’s Changed State Pension Age: Compensation

Reference has been made to the 2019 manifesto commitment, so let me briefly set it out: “Under the Tories, 400,000 pensioners have been pushed into poverty and a generation of women born in the 1950s have had their pension age changed without fair notification. This betrayal left millions of women…

Detention of Alaa Abd el-Fattah

I have called this Adjournment debate to raise the urgent matter of the ongoing detention of Alaa Abd el-Fattah. That name was raised in the earlier debate and I am grateful for the number of Members who highlighted the case, but this debate gives us the opportunity to go into…

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