Clayton's Political View

As I write it is the Labour conference season, I should have been up in Liverpool this weekend watching key notes however with covid I ended up watching Deputy Leader Angela Rayner giving her address virtually. I was truly inspired by Rayner's key note speech. it is also this week that Angela Rayner gave a powerful performance at Prime Ministers Questions last Wednesday in which she gave the Prime Minister a grilling over care workers.  She spoke about her childbirth and working in the care sector and how the party helped her. Labour truly is the party for social mobility, Labour governments have bought in the minimum wage act, introduced child tax credits, and introduced the human rights act which gave people basic rights in law. These things have helped people to unleash their potential and improve their lives. The state helping people should be celebrated and with a Labour state we can do this.  Since our devastating loss last year we have been slowly rising in the opinion ...

In the chaotic landscape of covid Britain nothing is certain and everything is changing daily, as of tomorrow you won't be able to meet in groups of more than six. Another massive uncertainty is whether we are going to get a deal with the EU, I suspect we won't the Prime Minister Boris Johnson has signaled to the EU that if progress isn't made by the 15th of October we will revert to WTO rules. A deal could be ratified at the eleventh hour however after the Conservatives action this week I think the chance of getting a deal is very slim. Last December on the election trail the Prime Minister went around the country proclaiming he had an 'over ready deal' so what's happened to that? This week in Parliament Brandon Lewis stood up and said the Government were planning on breaking the law in a limited and specific way in regards to Northern Ireland.in the last four years we have gone from three hundred and fifty million pounds extra to the NHS to breaking the law. I...