Andy McDonald

The basic rate of Universal Credit has fallen by 9% in real terms since 2010. I raised the @jrf_uk proposal for an independent advisory process to inform UC rates, ensuring it reflects the real c...

The Labour government has already achieved so much. Let's work harder at it, and do more of it, because that's the way we transform people's lives. Let's be bold in the offer that we're making to ...

People used to be able to see improvements in earnings through their lifetime. But for the last 20 years real incomes have all but flatlined. So a cost-of-living focus needs to make work pay, rep...

The UK is duty-bound to prevent genocide. In Gaza, history will judge whether we acted when the warning signs were crystal clear. What evidence would be required to accept the risk if neither the...

I have real concerns that changes to visa rules, family rights and settlement will damage public services by forcing migrant workers into impossible choices The government must retain the five-yea...

The Bar Council and Criminal Bar Association say there’s no evidence that limiting jury trials will cut court delays. I urged the Minister to publish any evidence behind these reforms and explain...

The culture needs to change within the Labour Party. We must return to pluralism and being genuinely Labour. Pursuing the Mandelson-type agenda has landed us in the mess that we're in. Our purpos...

RT @labourlewis: Morgan McSweeney’s resignation should not be treated as a cleansing moment. He was not an aberration. He was the tip of an…

The Labour Party needs to be a signpost, not a weather vane and serve the best interests of the working people of this country. To achieve that we need to hear the debate amongst the whole swathe ...

I have launched a survey to ask how we should spend £40m in Thorntree and Park End. The Labour Government is putting in this huge community investment through its Pride in Place programme. Please...

What would you improve in your community if you had £40m? In my regular @NEBylines column I look at the Labour Government's Pride in Place programme and encourage people living in TS3 to make thei...

Labour Together deploying private investigations into legitimate journalists is sinister and has no place in the labour movement. MPs who received their donations should ask questions. Those who ...

The Commons is today due to debate the obligation to assess the risk of genocide in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. I expressed my disappointment at the time for this vital debate being shor...

RT @RichardBurgon: Peter Mandelson’s ongoing relationship with Epstein was well known long before his appointment as US Ambassador. But a…

Today I am launching a survey to ask how we should spend £40m in Thorntree and Park End. The Labour Government is investing this huge sum through its Pride in Place programme. But it is up for pe...

What was known at the time was more than sufficient to say, "You do not touch this man with a barge pole. He's dangerous for us." Speaking to @SkyNews about Lord Mandelson earlier today. https://...

What was known at the time of his appointment was more than sufficient to say you do not touch this man with a barge pole. I spoke to @RidgeandFrost on @SkyNews about Lord Mandelson this morning. ...

RT @bphillipsonMP: Tonight, Labour MPs voted to scrap the two child limit – a move that puts us on course to drive the biggest reduction of…

The task of every Labour government is to reduce child poverty, and today that is exactly what's happening. Removing the two-child limit will lift hundreds of thousands of children out of poverty....

Mandelson should relinquish his peerage today. These revelations are becoming more and more serious by the hour. I spoke to @EvanHD on @BBCPM. https://t.co/VK3zWhyjm3