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Rebecca Long-Bailey

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Rebecca Long-Bailey is the Labour MP for Salford and Eccles

March 2023

  • Jeremy Hunt leaving Downing Street before delivering the spring budget on 15 March 2023

    The panel
    double quotation markBudget 2023: will it lift Britain’s economic gloom? Our panel give their verdict

    Polly Toynbee, Miatta Fahnbulleh, Katy Balls, Frances Ryan, Louisa Britain, Rebecca Long-Bailey and Lucy Pasha-Robinson
    Jeremy Hunt has announced reforms to childcare, pensions and disability benefits. What do they mean for the economy?

December 2022

  • A firefighters demonstration for pay increases, London, 6 December 2022.

    double quotation markIn 2019 Labour made ending in-work poverty a priority. It must do so again

    Rebecca Long-Bailey
    Over time, the problem has only worsened, and there is no way this government will fix it, says Labour MP Rebecca Long-Bailey

December 2020

  • Chancellor of the exchequer Rishi Sunak.

    double quotation markMillions of people have fallen through the 'safety net'. Here's how to help them

    Rebecca Long-Bailey
    Supermarkets have just paid back their Covid handouts – why not divert this money to people in deep financial trouble, asks Labour MP Rebecca Long-Bailey

June 2020

  • FILES-BRITAIN-POLITICS-LABOUR<br>(FILES) In this file photo taken on May 07, 2019 Britain’s opposition Labour party’s Brexit spokesman Keir Starmer (L) and Shadow Secretary of State for Business Energy and Industrial Strategy, Rebecca Long-Bailey arrive for continuing Brexit talks at the Cabinet office in London. - Labour leader Keir Starmer has sacked Rebecca Long-Bailey for sharing an article containing an “anti-Semitic conspiracy theory” on June 25, 2020. (Photo by Tolga AKMEN / AFP) (Photo by TOLGA AKMEN/AFP via Getty Images)

    double quotation markI know how painful antisemitism is and never intended my tweet to cause hurt

    Rebecca Long-Bailey
    I take responsibility for my actions leading to my sacking, says the Labour MP Rebecca Long-Bailey

March 2020

  • Rebecca Long-Bailey addresses the audience during a Labour leadership hustings at Dudley Town Hall on 8 March

    Today in Focus
    The Labour leadership interviews: Rebecca Long-Bailey

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  • Utility bills

    double quotation markIt's time to move mountains to protect people – we need universal basic income

    Rebecca Long-Bailey

February 2020

  • Flooding in York

    double quotation markLabour can win in 2024 with my plan to tackle the climate emergency

    Rebecca Long-Bailey
    Boris Johnson is hiding from this defining issue. Labour will win if it sets the agenda, says Labour leadership candidate Rebecca Long-Bailey

January 2020

  • Demonstration for the NHS in London

    Labour's leadership race
    double quotation markGiving power to the people is Labour’s path back to power

    Rebecca Long-Bailey
    The party must show it can be a force for change in voters’ lives – by leading a democratic revolution, says Labour party leadership candidate Rebecca Long-Bailey

December 2019

  • Miners at Kellingley colliery, December 2015

    double quotation markWe can take the Labour party back into power. Here’s how

    Rebecca Long-Bailey
    We need to win back trust, champion progressive patriotism and unite communities failed by the Tories, says shadow business secretary Rebecca Long-Bailey

April 2019

  • The Ormonde Offshore Wind Farm in the Irish sea

    double quotation markWe must have a green industrial revolution. And Labour will lead it

    Rebecca Long-Bailey
    We must draw on our history to find a way through the environmental crisis that faces us

March 2019

  • Rebecca Long-Bailey .

    double quotation markFrom people’s vote to no deal … What should parliament do now?

    Lucy Powell, Chris Leslie, Nicky Morgan, Peter Bone, Caroline Flint and Rebecca Long-Bailey
    The divisions on Brexit cut across party lines. Here, six MPs spanning the spectrum of opinion make their case

December 2017

  • Burbo Bank offshore wind farm, Liverpool

    double quotation markNo more green rhetoric. A sustainable future is vital and possible

    Rebecca Long-Bailey
    Climate change is at the heart of Labour’s industrial strategy, which means investing in green tech and renewable energy, and divesting from fossil fuels

May 2017

  • Luxury yacht belonging to Joe Lewis who appears on the Sunday Times Rich List.

    double quotation markThe UK has more billionaires than ever. Under Labour we’ll all be on the rich list

    Rebecca Long-Bailey
    Britain is a wealthy country – but few people share in it. Unlike Theresa May, Labour wants a Brexit that builds a fairer society and an upgraded economy

September 2016

  • Jeremy Corbyn at a rally in Featherstone, September 2016

    double quotation markOne year on, Jeremy Corbyn has transformed British politics

    Rebecca Long-Bailey
    As a member of his diverse shadow cabinet, I have watched Labour’s leader inspire a new mass movement and force the Tories into retreat