News - John McDonnell MP

John McDonnell’s contribution to the debate on the Budget 1st November 2021

I would like to comment on some of the points made in the debate so far. We all support levelling up—in fact, it was a Labour party policy announced in 2016—but let us talk about levelling back, because £100 billion of central Government funding has been taken from local government…

John’s article in the Guardian : It’s increasingly clear: Labour’s leadership has little idea how to win a political fight

After this week’s performance by the Labour party, I say – more in sorrow than in anger – that we can’t go on like this, something’s urgently got to give. It’s more than a year since a new leadership was elected, but the Labour response to Boris Johnson’s social care announcement demonstrated starkly just…

John’s contribution to the Nationality and Boarders Bill.

I have listened to the debate over the two days and the best thing for us all individually to do is bring our own experiences to it. I represent a multicultural, working-class community in west London, and I have two detention centres in my constituency. I have been visiting them…

John’s contribution to the Westminster Hall Debate on Amnesty for Undocumented Migrants.

Before I comment on the speeches so far, I want to mention this. Today I visited the Crowne Plaza hotel in my constituency, which has housed asylum seekers for the last year. This weekend a young Sudanese man died at the hotel. I will not name him because I am…

John’s Contribution in the Westminster Hall debate on Peace and Human Rights in Columbia

I am the secretary of the National Union of Journalists parliamentary group, and I want to raise again, as I have done in previous debates on Colombia, the plight of journalists—the abuse of their human rights and the violations of press freedom. The International Federation of Journalists has recently published…

John’s Contribution to the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill

It is the principled eloquence of my hon. Friend the Member for Luton North (Sarah Owen) that gives me hope for the future of our country. I feel that the country is safe in the hands of her generation and people like her. I have listened to the whole of the…

John’s Contribution to the Westminster Hall debate on Motor Neuron Disease

I thank the hon. Member for Linlithgow and East Falkirk (Martyn Day) for the eloquent way he introduced this debate. I will try to be as brief as possible so that everyone can get in. I want to address my remarks to the Minister directly. She has heard why we are…

John’s contribution to the Westminster Hall Debate on Delays in the Asylum System

I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Stockport (Navendu Mishra) for securing this debate. I wholeheartedly welcome the debate because it provides me with another opportunity to raise the plight of those who are the hardest hit victims of the delays in the asylum system—those who are detained. As…

John’s contribution to the Westminster Hall Debate on Regional Airports

I congratulate the hon. Member for St Austell and Newquay (Steve Double). I represent the constituency in which Heathrow is located, which in no way can be described as a regional airport—I apologise if he feels that I am Zoom-bombing the debate—but I think it is absolutely critical to have…

John McDonnell: The five lessons Keir Starmer can learn after Labour’s Batley and Spen by-election win

It’s best to be honest when reacting to by-elections like Batley and Spen and, if I have a role as a Labour party elder statesman, my advice is let’s admit that today’s result is a narrow escape from disaster, not just for the Labour Party but also for the local…

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