July 26, 2011
The increasingly embattled Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne was greeted with more bad news when he opened the file containing the latest growth figure this morning. The economy grew by one fifth of a percent in the second quarter of the year, way off the target of 0.8% needed to stay on track with ...
June 24, 2011
Kerry McCarthy, Labour MP for Bristol East, is calling on the Government to take action to help her out of work constituents after figures released in Parliament show that jobseekers in Bristol East face the toughest task in the city, and that getting a job is getting even tougher. In response to a Parliamentary Question, ...
December 14, 2009
Kerry McCarthy MP is urging people to go online and back a new campaign to turn a promise to tackle global poverty into a law. The www.globalpovertypromise.com website is part of a campaign to put the Government’s promise to raise international development aid to 0.7% of national income by 2013 into legislation. Kerry said: “People ...