What’s a disgrace is that Rishi Sunak won’t call a general election.

This week marks 35 years since the Hillsborough tragedy. 💜

What followed was a cover up that forced victims’ families to fight for justice for their loved ones.

We honoured their dignity and courage with a Special Recognition award in 2013, with the inspirational Margaret…

We’ve been campaigning around streaming income for years now.

TODAY, the government finally convenes the whole industry to sit down and hash it out.

Another 6 month process, but a very important one.

I’ll be there.

The Ivors Academy will be negotiating alongside the…

The biggest casualty of these fourteen years has been hope.

It’s time to put children and families back at the heart of government.

It’s time for Labour.

The MU is here at Department for Culture, Media and Sport with Council of Music Makers for the first meeting of the Creator Remuneration Group

The group brings together government, Intellectual Property Office UK and music industry to talk about a better deal for musicians and music creators

Tom Gray 🌹 The Ivors Academy Great work Tom. We set up a merch store on our website two days ago and made more money in one day than we've made in two years of streaming with over a quarter of a million streams. Streaming is basically legal piracy.

Tom Gray 🌹 The Ivors Academy Thank you, Tom. It really is vastly unfair. I was recently told by one major record label that the base price per stream for me was 0.0005p when I questioned why, after 1.5 million streams of a particularly popular track of mine, they paid me just over £35.

We’ve been campaigning around streaming income for years now.

TODAY, the government finally convenes the whole industry to sit down and hash it out.

Another 6 month process, but a very important one.

I’ll be there.

The Ivors Academy will be negotiating alongside the…

Off to represent 34,500 Musicians' Union members who deserve a better deal from music streaming. It’s the first Government, Intellectual Property Office UK & industry Creator Remuneration Group today and I’ve been waiting a long time to make the case formally to Ministers. ✊🎵

A big day for Musicians' Union & The Ivors Academy’s FixStreaming campaign and Tom Gray 🌹’s #BrokenRecord . Council of Music Makers are looking forward to speaking to Department for Culture, Media and Sport & Intellectual Property Office UK about how music makers deserve a better deal from streaming.

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Labour wants every child to achieve and thrive.

That’s why we’ll invest in the success of our children — including mental health support in every school, paid for by ending tax breaks for private schools.

Just a reminder that an actual lettuce has done more to stand up to Liz Truss than Rishi Sunak.

This Thursday, the culmination of four years work: the 'Creator Remuneration Working Group' is finally being convened by the Government.

It's already been highly-criticised for only having a tiny % of creative representation in the room, but it is HAPPENING.

I will be there.…

Please read this twice.

This Thursday, the culmination of four years work: the 'Creator Remuneration Working Group' is finally being convened by the Government.

It's already been highly-criticised for only having a tiny % of creative representation in the room, but it is HAPPENING.

I will be there.…

Pretty incredible stats in the Financial Times today on the failure of private equity companies running our water companies:

'Water companies in England and Wales paid £2.5bn in dividends and added £8.2bn to their net debt in the two financial years since 2021.'

There it is. For all the claims, all the denial, all the lies, all the bullshit there's the reality. We got screwed.

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Today on the 35th anniversary of Hillsborough, I'll be thinking about those lost, their families, and their enduring courage and determination to pursue justice.

Making the Hillsborough Law a reality would be a priority of my Labour government.

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