What would Labour do differently? 🤔

📣 Delighted to confirm that Royal Borough of Greenwich have granted CAST another five years of Asset of Community Value status for our beloved Valley. Read what this means plus comments from #cafc and Matthew Pennycook MP 👇🏼👇🏼

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Given how limited the Tory legislation has turned out to be, we will need more than 100 days to get it right but Labour’s commitment to bringing the archaic and iniquitous leasehold system to an end and making commonhold the default remains unchanged and resolute.

Need to get across the Thames this weekend? Plan carefully...

❌ The southbound Blackwall Tunnel will be closed again

❌ There will be no service on much of the DLR, including to Lewisham, Greenwich, Canary Wharf and Bank

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Russia fired over 80 missiles and drones at Ukraine overnight, primarily targeting critical civilian infrastructure.

Six of them were ballistic missiles. Ukraine remains the only country in the world facing ballistic strikes. There is currently no other place for 'Patriots' to…

If you don’t vote Labour on 2 May, you risk a Tory Mayor.

But don’t just take it from us — take it from a former Liberal Democrat mayoral candidate.

Pass this on to anyone you know considering voting for a smaller party. mylondon.news/news/ex-lib-de…

After 14 years, nowhere is safe from Tory failure - sickness benefits have soared in literally every constituency.

Millions are on mental health waiting lists or can't work due to long-term sickness - it costs us all a fortune.

Our country needs change.

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Soaring service charges are placing an intolerable strain on leaseholders.

Greater transparency is part of the answer but we need a more fundamental conversation about how we better protect leaseholders, and particularly shared owners, from unreasonable charges.

Today we have set out Labour's plan to clamp down on tax avoidance and to close loopholes in the government's non-dom plans.

With the money that raises, we will fund our plans for the NHS, dentistry, and breakfast clubs for all primary schools.

Eid Mubarak to everyone celebrating Eid al-Fitr!

I will take on tax dodgers to fund our NHS and schools.

I promised I would honour my commitment to find new funding - and I've stuck to my word.
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Soaring rents are pushing private tenants to breaking point with huge numbers falling into arrears and at risk of eviction and homelessness.

We need a strengthened Renters Reform Bill with additional protections for tenants against extortionate within-tenancy rent rises.

Labour will digitise the red book, so children’s health records are on the NHS App.

More information and more control, giving power back to patients.

Only Labour will reform our NHS to make it fit for the future.

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A local government and art cross-over as the Accidentally Wes Anderson exhibition includes municipal architecture. Here's Woolwich Town Hall, which is arguably London's finest municipal building (though not the only one to host weddings).

“It is hugely important that the UK is not complicit”

Shadow Foreign Secretary David Lammy says he has “very real concerns” that Britain’s obligations under international law “might have been breached” as a result of Israel’s actions in Gaza

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New FCA rules and provisions in the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill should go some way to addressing this problem but that will be of little comfort to leaseholders hammered by extortionate premiums over recent years. The government did not move quickly enough to protect them.

Today I’ve written to David Cameron.

We can’t have a Foreign Secretary dodging scrutiny on arms sales to Israel. He must:

- Publish the foreign office legal advice.

- Take questions from MPs in the Bar of the House of Commons.

- Unequivocally commit to international law.

The number of homes granted planning permission across England in 2023 has dropped 20 per cent compared to last year and is at its lowest level in a decade.
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75 years ago, #NATO was founded.

And 75 years on, the alliance has never been stronger, larger or more unified.

Labour’s commitment to NATO is unshakeable. In Government, we will fulfil our NATO obligations in full.

My article with David Lammy 👇

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Britain has had 14 years of chaos under the Tories.

Watch Tony Robinson in our latest party election broadcast on Labour’s plan for Britain’s future.