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Permanent Ceasefire: The ongoing suffering of Palestinians in Gaza remains on all our minds & the need for a permanent ceasefire is ever pressing. I am proud of the campaign we have waged in my local community for peace & justice for the Palestinian people, which I have been able to give voice to. Please see video below

Jeremy Hunt’s cynical budget is the last, desperate gasp of a dying government John McDonnell Guardian Opinion 6th March 2024

Budgets are never just about the economy. They are major political interventions and the last budget before a general election has to be a showstopper to have any effect on the political weather, especially if your party is lying consistently 20 points behind in the polls. This one confirmed that…

June – December 2023

https://www.john-mcdonnell.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/157/2023/12/June-Dec-2023.pdf June – December 2023

BA Redundancy and Wage Cuts

My constituents, who work for British Airways, feel absolutely betrayed by this company as they face either redundancy or huge cuts in their wages & terms of employment. BA, our national flag carrier, is behaving disgracefully. The Prime Minister must act pic.twitter.com/oV8jsig3yN — John McDonnell (@johnmcdonnellMP) June 2, 2020

Responding to the Covid 19 Pandemic Locally

Responding to the Covid 19 Pandemic Locally I would like to thank you to everyone who is working so hard locally to assist our community in dealing with and helping people come through the Covid 19 pandemic. All our local agencies are working hard together, the Police, Council and Councillors,…

John McDonnell crushes PM’s hope of Labour backing his Brexit deal in Parliament

John McDonnell dealt a blow to Boris Johnson’s hopes of getting a Brexit deal through Parliament today – if the Prime Minister eventually thrashes one out with the EU. The shadow chancellor suggested the Tory deal would fall short of Labour demands and claimed he could not be trusted to…

Stroud Town Seminar

Chingford TownSeminar 15th June 2019

John McDonnell’s response to the Chancellor’s Spring Statement

Spring Statement Introduction Let me thank the Chancellor for providing me with an early sight of his statement. We have just witnessed a display by the Chancellor of this Government’s toxic mix of callous, brutal complacency over austerity and its grotesque incompetence over the handling of Brexit. Whilst teachers are…

Treasure Questions

The Chancellor knew full well in our debate last week that the Prime Minister’s deal was not going to receive the support of the House. A decision on her deal cannot be delayed, put off until late January, as some around her suggest. #TreasuryQuestions pic.twitter.com/i4TZLz7dBn — John McDonnell (@johnmcdonnellMP) December…