News - John McDonnell MP

No time for half-hearted measures: we need a Radical Recovery Programme

In every other period of history when inflation combines with wage cuts, and people struggle to pay for the basics in life, confronting a real cost-of-living crisis, that’s when people get angry. It’s when they see the system is failing them. It’s when they demand change and are increasingly open…

John McDonnell’s contribution to the Public Services Pensions

I declare an interest in that I am a member of the local government pension scheme. I want to address the amendments standing in my name—new clause 10 and amendments 22 and 24—but I would also like to comment on new clause 1. On the debate about whether or not this…

John McDonnell’s contribution to the Pensions and Social Security Debate in the Chamber

I resent the premise of this debate. I resent the Government bringing forward an unamendable order on such a significant issue, because that leads to the conclusion, as the hon. Members for Amber Valley (Nigel Mills) and for North East Fife (Wendy Chamberlain) said, that if we reject the order there…

John McDonnell’s contribution to the Westminster Hall debate on Global Vaccine Access

Last month, the former Prime Minister and World Health Organisation global health ambassador Gordon Brown said that the global vaccine roll-out was a “stain on our global soul”. The numbers are stark: three quarters of health workers in Africa remain unvaccinated; less than 5% of people in low-income countries have…

John McDonnell’s contribution to the Westminster Hall Debate on Eye Health

I join others in thanking the hon. Member for Strangford (Jim Shannon) for securing the debate. I congratulate him on providing a service to us all by securing so many debates on so many relevant issues. I concur with the previous speaker, the hon. Member for Hendon (Dr Offord), that…

John McDonnell’s contribution to the Charter for Budget Responsibility and Welfare Cap

The debate has roamed over more than just the fiscal rule and the welfare cap, and I will not tread on those other parts of the debate. My right hon. Friend the Member for Wolverhampton South East (Mr McFadden) demonstrated the economic and political farce of the current Government. The…

John McDonnell’s contribution to Public Service Pensions and Judicial Officer Bill

I want to focus briefly on part 1 of the Bill, which addresses the McCloud judgment. I think we have to acknowledge that what we are having to deal with is an absolute mess in the management of public sector pension schemes by the Government, exposed by the McCloud judgment.…

John McDonnell’s Westminster Hall debate on the role of local councils in levelling up.

The debate is about the role of local councils in the levelling-up strategy that the Government are pursuing. I applied for it because I had hoped that the Government’s White Paper would have been published either last week or this week. Unfortunately, it has been delayed until the new year.…

John McDonnell’s contribution to the debate on the Finance Bill

I came to this debate solely to make a proposal on local government, but because the House is not packed I will respond to some of the previous comments. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Ealing North (James Murray) on his comprehensive analysis of the Government’s Budget, which…

John McDonnell’s contribution to the debate on Social Security (Up-Rating of Benefits) Bill

May I say that we in the Opposition, and I think Members on both sides of the House, take pride in the expertise of my right hon. Friend the Member for East Ham (Stephen Timms)? Time and again, as Chair of the Work and Pensions Committee, he has warned the…

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