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John McDonnell

@johnmcdonnellmp

John McDonnell is a former shadow chancellor and the Labour MP for Hayes and Harlington

<p>Labour Party leader Keir Starmer leaves his home after the Conservative Party wins a landslide stronghold in Hartlepool</p>
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You can’t expect people to vote for you but not tell them why

<p>The chancellor, Rishi Sunak, will be forced to extend some furlough support and to back off from benefit cuts </p>
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A windfall tax on Covid profits is vital to help tackle debt

Sunak announces measures to protect self-employed
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We have to go further, faster to truly protect jobs in this crisis

The stories of those failed by the immigration system only reinforce the need for absolute clarity on migrant rights
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We can't let the Home Office threaten migrants' right to strike

Children’s charities and local councils wrote to the Chancellor before the Budget to explain that children’s social care is ‘being pushed to breaking point’
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Philip Hammond gave no funding to social services in the Budget

John McDonnell: Royal Mail was sold off by the Government for a 'fraction of its value'
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The privatisation of our public services has been national failure

George Osborne attending a Cabinet Meeting, Downing Street, London, March 2016
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Osborne is playing fast and loose with our economy

'Labour’s new Fiscal Credibility Rule, drawn up with support from world-leading economists, is more realistic and achievable'
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Osborne has achieved almost nothing of what he promised in 2010

George Osborne delivering a speech on his spending review at GCHQ this week
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Labour is determined to safeguard the health of Britain's economy

McDonnell: The Labour Party under Jeremy Corbyn will take a strategic approach to planning for the economy of the future
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Why Labour has changed its position on economy vote

Did Bob Crow ever get the credit he deserved?
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Bow Crow showed that trade unions - managed well - could be just as

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