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The 2016 Labour Party Conference at ACC Liverpool. The Labour Party Conference is the annual conference of the British Labour Party.It is formally the supreme decision-making body of the party and is traditionally held in the final week of September, during the party conference season when the House of Commons is in recess, after each year's second Liberal Democrat Conference and before the ...
On 23 July 2024, Labour withdrew the whip from 7 of its MPs who had supported an amendment tabled by the Scottish National Party (SNP)'s Westminster leader Stephen Flynn to scrap it, with Flynn stating that scrapping the cap would immediately raise 300,000 children out of poverty. MPs rejected the SNP amendment by 363 votes to 103.
In July 2023, Labour introduced sweeping welfare initiatives as part of that year's budget, including a $1 billion Cyclone Recovery plan, a large increase in childcare and parental leave, scrapping prescription co-payments, free public transport for under-13s (and half price for under-25s), [137] and increasing the funding for Te Matatini ...
Asked by BBC Radio 4’s Today programme if he would consider scrapping the cap, the Labour leader said: “In an ideal world, of course. But we haven’t got the resources to do it at the moment.
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It advocates free prescriptions for everyone with long-term conditions. [12] In July 2017 they said a third of patients of working age had not collected a prescription because of cost. [13] The Royal College of General Practitioners launched a campaign in May 2017 to scrap mental health prescription charges for students. [14]
Labour call to scrap ‘reckless’ NI Protocol Bill amid cost-of-living crisis. Martina Bet, Elizabeth Arnold, David Lynch and Ben Hatton, PA Political Staff. September 6, 2022 at 9:07 AM.