Julia Lopez

Welcome to Labour’s Britain. Where 16- and 17-year-olds are old enough to vote. Old enough to have sex. Old enough to be soldiers - but not old enough to be infinite midnight scrollers. Today's Li...

Want to know what Andy’s plans are for housing in London? Tax it and give more power to Mayor Sadiq Khan. What could possibli* go wrong? (*Simpsons S6, E4) Here Andy’s policy guru, Miatta Fahnbul...

Want to know what Andy’s plans are to get Britain's energy costs down? I asked Miatta Fahnbulleh, the lady charged with drawing them up. She was the Energy Minister who presided over a £150 incre...

The works at Gallows Corner have been a transport debacle to which Mayor of London, Sir Sadiq Khan, has shown complete disinterest to the point of contempt -despite the impact on residents and busi...

First jobs give the satisfaction of earning, a chance to build a CV, experiences good and bad that build resilience and insights into how businesses large and small operate. We need to make it eas...

Oh ok, Liz. How many of your AI Growth Zones have even managed to get beyond planning?

Looks like Andy’s Labour is cooking up something weird on social media regulation during election periods. His No 2, Lucy Powell, says she wants to see social media regulated like broadcasters are...

The penny is fast dropping that a Burnham gov won’t just be Starmer with better comms. Things are moving firmly leftwards. Yesterday, Andy had a big meeting with the unions just as his camp were s...

The penny is fast dropping that a Burnham gov won’t just be Starmer with better comms. Things are moving firmly leftwards. Yesterday, Andy had a big meeting with the unions just as his camp were s...

Professor Brian Cox is among scientists warning of a physics and astronomy funding disaster under Labour. Science Secretary, Liz Kendall, recognised the problem in March. But yesterday in parliame...

My piece in today's @Telegraph Andy Burnham will become PM with neither a mandate from the public nor from his own MPs, a good number of whom represent London seats. For now, he is that cheerfu...

Unfashionable take alert. London is a city of 9 million people (Scotland and Wales populations combined). Some Londoners are very rich. Some are very poor. And then there’s the majority of Lond...

Today, I gathered at Havering Town Hall with community leaders, proud families and our local police officers to thank and celebrate all who serve in our Armed Forces. There was such a strong showi...

This week, the Shadow Science & Tech team met Minister, Patrick Vallance, on behalf of the @lobularmoonshot campaign to keep pushing for progress in getting the research we need on lobular breast c...

Good news in our campaign to stop Labour charging VAT on free medicines given in clinical trials. Treasury has backtracked. Minister confirmed in parliament this week that they’ll either change th...

When I said with confidence, nine months ago, that Deputy Prime Minister, Angela Rayner, would resign before @KemiBadenoch ever did, I was scoffed at. I should have added, ‘And she’ll outlast Keir...

Trying to stop Labour doing nutty things latest... This week ANOTHER big pharma company is warning it will stop providing free medicine to sick people in clinical trials if the government taxes th...

WATCH THIS - A telling exchange between Northern Irish MP, Jim Allister, and Tech Minister, Kanishka Narayan, this week. Ministers have not before been clear whether tech regulation is on the tab...

If we’re to reverse the trend of our best tech and science firms leaving the UK to scale - making us ALL poorer, less secure and more dependent - we need to give those firms the tools to win. Lowe...

2/2 This means there are many unanswered questions about how the government will be translating its social media ban into real life, and wider inconsistencies of approach to young people. Labour ...