Supporters of the Labour Party will now be able to join a new Labour Supporters Network under plans agreed today as part of the Refounding Labour package.

 
Labour recognises that political parties alone cannot make the changes we need either in Britain as a whole or in our local communities. Our new Supporters Network will reach out to all those people who wish to improve their local communities and country. 

Ed Miliband MP, Leader of the Opposition, said today that the only way to tackle debt problems across the world is by the getting growth we need:

 
"The Prime Minister is quite good at lecturing other people on getting their problems sorted out and it’s true that the Eurozone needs to sort out its debt problems. But the only way we’re going to tackle the debt problems across the world is by getting the growth that we need. And all the Prime Minister seems to be offering is to say 'I’ve got austerity here at home, I’m going to now export it abroad'. But when the recovery here in Britain was choked off last autumn, well before the global problems of recent months, that’s not a solution to the problems the world faces.

Today Labour publishes an independent report produced for Labour’s Shadow Defence Team, ‘Ideas for Future UK Defence Procurement’.


This is the first piece of detailed work to be produced from the Labour Party’s official policy review process, led by Liam Byrne MP, which is reporting to Ed Miliband MP, Leader of the Labour Party, in 2012.

The review was set up by Jim Murphy MP, Labour's Shadow Secretary of State for Defence, and Michael Dugher MP, Labour's Shadow Defence Minister, last year. An independent Review Team was established and this final study will be submitted to the Labour Party to inform the work of the Shadow Defence Team as they produce a comprehensive review of defence policy.

Douglas Alexander MP, Labour's Shadow Foreign Secretary, has written to William Hague setting out Labour's position ahead of the United Nations General Assembly:

Harriet Harman MP, Labour's Shadow Secretary of State for International Development, speaking about the floods in Pakistan, said: 


"These devastating floods are causing more suffering for people who were still recovering from the floods of 2010. For the second time, many have lost their homes and the crops and livestock they depend on.

Ed Miliband MP, Leader of the Opposition, said in response to the death of four miners in Gleision Colliery in the Swansea Valley:  “I want to send my deepest condolences to the families of those who have died.
 

John Healey MP, Labour's Shadow Health Secretary, has attacked the Tory-led Government for slipping out details on the cost of David Cameron’s NHS reorganisation the day after the House of Commons finished debating the legislation.