A new chapter for Labour, or a turning of the page?
At some stage, Starmer is going to have to acknowledge the damage that Brexit is inflicting to businesses, to a...
Read moreDetailsJane is an experienced campaigner and former university politics lecturer. She is a member of the Labour Party [Yorkshire and Humber] regional executive. She was head of the England team for Friends of the Earth and more recently coordinated the Brexit Civil Society Alliance. Jane is a committed devolutionist - she helped set up the campaign for the English regions and was director of Campaign for Yorkshire until 2004. Jane has three grown up children and lives in Sheffield with her husband, where she is involved with Sheffield’s Fairness Campaign.
At some stage, Starmer is going to have to acknowledge the damage that Brexit is inflicting to businesses, to a...
Read moreDetailsThe fact that the Northern Ireland protocol – designed to prevent a hard border on the island of Ireland –...
Read moreDetailsAs an island we really have no excuse. But our border policy has been elusive, at best
Read moreDetailsJane Thomas reviews the evidence that was given to the Welsh Affairs Committee this week
Read moreDetailsVaccine nationalism plays straight into the hands of this footloose-and-fancy-free virus
Read moreDetails‘Stay home, Save Lives’ just isn’t working for some people - including our prime minister
Read moreDetailsThe pressures for greater local control are growing and cannot be ignored
Read moreDetailsWithout an effective test, trace isolate programme – and with the abject failure to deal with what happens at our...
Read moreDetailsJane Thomas looks at how scrapping the universal credit uplift of £20 a week would have the biggest impact in...
Read moreDetailsSheffield campaigner Jane Thomas reacts to the news that Transport for the North's budget has been cut by 40 percent
Read moreDetailsThe peaks of coronavirus and Brexit are converging at the worst possible moment to supercharge and amplify each other, threatening...
Read moreDetailsJane Thomas analyses Keir Starmer's latest speech and a change of tone from the leader of the opposition
Read moreDetailsFor a country so hell bent on taking back control of its borders, it appears that there are absolutely no...
Read moreDetailsThe vaccine programme that was to form a central part of our route out of Covid-19 has been thrown into...
Read moreDetailsYesterday, Independent Sage called for a 5-point plan to tackle the immediate coronavirus crisis
Read moreDetailsJane Thomas reviews the impact of the French blockade on UK ports, following the UK's warning of a more virulent...
Read moreDetailsThe Lords environment sub-committee yesterday heard concerns about the increased paperwork, the lack of vets to sign off health certificates,...
Read moreDetailsJane Thomas looks ahead to Operation Capstone, a dry run for a no deal Brexit, and the problems facing the...
Read moreDetailsBoss of UK food trade body launches an absolutely withering attack on the government’s Brexit preparedness campaign
Read moreDetailsBrexit, not coronavirus, may be about to dent many people’s holiday season as we leave the single market and customs...
Read moreDetailsJane Thomas looks at the impacts of the pandemic and Brexit on Sheffield business, speaking to business leaders in the...
Read moreDetailsExamining the decision to put most of Yorkshire into Tier 3 and how the economic fallout from covid will mask...
Read moreDetailsJane Thomas details the catalogue of corruption at the heart of the government's coronavirus response spending
Read moreDetailsLast week industry experts expressed concerns that Brexit Customs Declaration Service will not be ready on time only to be...
Read moreDetailsWe are in the grip of the second wave of the pandemic
Read moreDetailsThe government has failed to prepare for Brexit despite the fact the decision to leave was made over four years...
Read moreDetailsA new report on Brexit shows that business readiness and border delays are our biggest problems as we leave the...
Read moreDetailsThe campaign #FundTheFrontline has warned fire services that without additional crews the public will face a roll of the dice...
Read moreDetailsThis move is generating a reaction from those who urged the government to move faster and earlier, to those fearing...
Read moreDetailsThe online debate will discuss the challenges to the social safety net and ask how we can best support those...
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