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John McDonnell’s response to the Queen’s Speech

After 11 years of harsh austerity and a year in which the covid pandemic has resulted in such a scale of human suffering, the Queen’s Speech should have been a paradigm-shifting intervention in which were established a new set of ideals upon which the future of our society was at…

The Alternative Queen’s Speech: How to build a fairer, healthier, greener Britain

Bell Ribeiro-Addy, Ian Mearns, Richard Burgon, Pauline Bryan & John McDonnell The pandemic has exposed inequality and insecurity, and made us re-evaluate what is most important to us. It has also exposed that we are globally interdependent and must work together to tackle the challenges that face us. A socialist…

John McDonnell: Keir Starmer’s Labour stands for nothing, so how can we convince people to vote for us?

“Why should I vote for you?”. It’s the biggest challenge you get as a politician campaigning for people’s votes. In over 40 years of elections, often as the candidate, I’ve never been at a loss for words. This year, dozens of activists and Labour voters – and even some of…

John McDonnell’s contribution to the Westminster Hall debate on Immigration

I find it hard to believe that we are having this debate today, and that this delegated legislation has been introduced at all. Emotionally, many Members of the House will find it hard to take, especially those of us who have taken any interest in detention, and specifically modern slavery…

John McDonnell’s contribution to the Westminster Hall Debate on Fire and Rehire

I want briefly to outline some of the implications of fire and rehire in its latest use for individuals, families and communities. I refer to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests, and I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Jarrow (Kate Osborne), who has been an…

John McDonnell’s contribution to the Westminster Hall debate on Support for Asylum Seekers

I have two detention centres in my constituency, Harmondsworth and Colnbrook. I will come back in another debate to explain the brutality of the regime in those detention centres, which is abhorrent. One of the opportunities given to us by Westminster Hall debates is to explain to Ministers what is…

John McDonnell’s Contribution to the Finance Bill

I tabled a number of amendments to the Finance Bill and spoke in the debate about Income tax, Corporation tax and capital allowances and Freeports. My contributions can be viewed below. Income Tax With the greatest respect for the previous speaker, I think there is a view across the House…

John McDonnell’s contribution in the 2nd reading of the Finance Bill

Budgets and their associated Finance Bills give practical meaning to the political aims of Governments. Manifestos and the rhetoric of party-leading Members and eventually the Queen’s Speech are the mechanisms used to describe the society that the governing party aims to construct, but it is its Budgets and its Finance…

John McDonnell’s contribution to the Online Anonymity and Anonymous Abuse debate

I am the secretary of the National Union of Journalists parliamentary group, and on behalf of the NUJ, I wish to refer to the particular vulnerability of journalists, and the unprecedented virulence and level of the abuse, threats and harassment that takes place online. Even after the experience of a…

John McDonnell’s amendment to the Air Traffic Management and Unmanned Aircraft Bill.

I tabled an amendment to the Air Traffic Management and Unmanned Aircraft Bill. This new clause would place statutory duties on the CAA to reduce, minimise or mitigate significant adverse noise impacts of aviation. I wish to speak to new clauses 1 and 2 and amendment 1, standing in my…

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