98% of residential home care providers do not believe they are paid enough by local councils to be able to meet public expectations of quality, a new survey by Labour has found. 

92% say that pressure on residential care providers because of low council fees is creating a two-tier market for residential care, as new investment is directed at wealthier areas of the country with higher proportions of people who are able to self-fund their care. 

Ed Miliband MP, Leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition, said:

"On behalf of the Labour Party, I want to pay tribute to Her Majesty The Queen on the occasion of her Diamond Jubilee. 

"She has served this country and the whole of the Commonwealth for the last sixty years with unstinting energy, loyalty, and dedication. Hers has been a life of extraordinary public service. She exemplifies a care for the common good of all to which we can all aspire. 

Labour has today launched a Policy Review document on Services for Young People. 

Karen Buck MP, Labour’s Shadow Minister for Young People, has highlighted the benefits of hosting youth centres in schools. 

Karen Buck MP said: 

“Many youth centres do a fantastic job, but too many are not up to scratch: poorly funded, not open at the right time, and not used by enough young people. In the worst cases, they can be target for gangs or those committing antisocial behaviour. Labour wants that to change. Youth Centres should be ‘safe havens’ for young people. 

Ed Balls MP, Labour’s Shadow Chancellor, responding to today’s revised GDP figures, said: 

“Our complacent and out of touch Prime Minister and Chancellor have spent the last week claiming their plan is on track, but these figures show that Britain’s double-dip recession is even deeper than first thought. 

As research is released showing two thirds of the public back a cap on the cost of credit and so do MPs, Labour MP Stella Creasy today appealed to parliamentarians to listen to the British public and vote for proposals to tackle legal loan sharking. Amendment 40 to the Financial Services Bill will give the new Financial Conduct Authority the power to cap the charges made for credit and so the cost of borrowing, but the Government has pledged to oppose this measure.

Ed Miliband MP, Leader of the Labour Party, in an article in today's Financial Times, argues that the complacency of “Camerkozy” economics has meant David Cameron's error has been replicated across our continent.

Ed Miliband MP, Leader of the Opposition and Leader of the Labour Party, has today announced changes to his frontbench team.

Jon Cruddas is to become Coordinator of the Labour Party Policy Review.

Ed Miliband will recommend to the National Policy Forum that Angela Eagle becomes its new chair.

Owen Smith is to replace Peter Hain as Shadow Secretary of State for Wales.

Andrew Adonis will advise the Policy Review on areas of Labour’s industrial strategy. 

Ed Miliband today launched Labour’s new “NHS Check” campaign to allow doctors, nurses and patients to reveal the damage done to front-line services by Government free-market, free-for-all in the health service.

Click here to visit the campaign website.

Ed Miliband MP, Leader of the Opposition, said in response to the Queen's Speech which sets out the Government's priorities:

I am sure the whole House will wish to join me in paying tribute to those who have died in Afghanistan since we last met:

Guardsman Michael Roland of 1st Battalion, the Grenadier Guards. Corporal Andrew Roberts, and Private Ratu Silibaravi of 23 Pioneer Regiment, the Royal Logistic Corps. 

To mark the two year anniversary of the Downing Street Rose Garden press conference, Labour has produced a document entitled "The Tory-led Government: A programme for no change", which returns to the original Coalition Agreement to reveal that the Tory-led Government is failing to deliver the change they promised - and failing to deliver the change the country needs.