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Chuka Umunna MP, Labour’s Shadow Business Secretary, responding to reports of comments by Stefano Pessina, Executive Chairman of Alliance Boots today, said:

“It is important that the voice of business is heard during this General Election campaign, not least on Europe. But the British people and...

The number of people working second jobs has increased by over 100,000 since the General Election, according to figures from the Labour Force Survey. New figures show that, within this, the number of self-employed people with a second job has risen by 68,000 or 22 per cent since 2010, fuelling...

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It is great to be here with Paul Blomfield, the local MP and Ollie Coppard, our candidate in Sheffield Hallam who is running such a brilliant campaign.

And I want to thank Ivan Lewis and Lisa Nandy for being here and leading this process of giving young people a...

Andy Burnham MP, Shadow Health Secretary, in a letter to the Prime Minister sent this afternoon, said:

22 October, 2014

Dear Prime Minister,

At Prime Minister’s Questions today Ed Miliband raised the serious issue of the English NHS and its increasingly precarious position after four years of...

Chuka Umunna MP, Labour’s Shadow Business Secretary, responding to a Government announcement on home-based entrepreneurs, said: “This is too little too late from a Government now in its fifth year of office. “Life for those seeking to start up a business has got harder under this Tory led...