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Polly Toynbee

Polly Toynbee is a Guardian columnist. Her recent books include An Uneasy Inheritance: My Family and Other Radicals and The Only Way Is Up: How to Take Britain from Austerity to Prosperity, a post-election book co-authored with David Walker

August 2024

  • Industrial strike<br>Members of the GMB union on the picket line stand in front of a freight lorry outside the Amazon fulfilment centre in Coventry. Amazon workers will launch a series of strikes on Tuesday in a long-running dispute over pay. Members of the GMB union at the online giant's Coventry site will walk out for three days, and again on November 24 - Black Friday. The union announced that around 1,000 workers will be on strike after criticising a pay offer it said was worth £1 an hour. Picture date: Tuesday November 7, 2023. PA Photo. Photo credit should read: Jacob King/PA Wire

    Say it loud and rejoice: the days of anti-union worker exploitation in Britain are coming to an end

    Polly Toynbee
  • a demonstration against anti-immigration riots in Walthamstow, east London on 7 august 2024

    The far right promised violence and mayhem last night – but decency took back the streets

    Polly Toynbee
  • Patients wait for their appointments at a GP surgery in London.

    England’s GPs are squaring up to the government – but it’s an unnecessary battle

    Polly Toynbee
  • FILE PHOTO: Ministerial Statement on Spending inheritance, in London<br>FILE PHOTO: Britain's new finance minister, Rachel Reeves, speaks at the House of Commons, in London, Britain, July 29, 2024. UK Parliament/Jessica Taylor/Handout via REUTERS THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY MANDATORY CREDIT/File Photo

    Labour is right to ditch the winter fuel allowance – it isn’t ‘robbing’ old people

    Polly Toynbee

July 2024

  • Rachel Reeves at the Treasury, 29 July 2024

    The billions Britain needs are at Rachel Reeves’s fingertips, and no fiscal promises need be broken

    Polly Toynbee
  • Campaigners for and against assisted dying gather during a debate in Parliament<br>epa11308684 Pro-assisted dying campaigners gather outside the UK Houses of Parliament as MPs prepare to debate over changing the law on assisted dying, in London, Britain, 29 April 2024. Following a petition backed by Dame Esther Rantzen, the UK Parliament will debate assisted dying and assisted suicide, which is currently illegal in the UK. EPA/TOLGA AKMEN

    At last, the chance to legalise assisted dying in the UK – and end the untold, unnecessary anguish

    Polly Toynbee
  • Ratcliffe-on-Soar coal-fired power station operated by E.ON UK.<br>M3CXND Ratcliffe-on-Soar coal-fired power station operated by E.ON UK.

    A whole new community on the site of a defunct power station near Erewash? Yes, please

    Polly Toynbee
  • Keir Starmer visit to Teeside<br>Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer (centre left) and shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves (left) in the Influence Cafe in Skinnergate, Darlington, during a visit to Teesside to meet local shop keepers, business owners and families, and discuss the cost of living on the first pay day since the Tory tax changes. Picture date: Friday April 26, 2024. PA Photo. See PA story POLITICS Labour. Photo credit should read: Owen Humphreys/PA Wire

    Starmer will bin the two-child benefit cap and outdo New Labour on tackling poverty – I’ll bet on it

    Polly Toynbee

  • I went to see how the Tories are handling defeat – and found Faragism and a total lack of reflection

    Polly Toynbee

  • Labour will rightly be judged by how it fixes our problems. But never forget who left the UK in such a rotten state

    Polly Toynbee

  • Cleaning up our fetid politics is Keir Starmer’s toughest task yet. Here’s how he can do it, fast

    Polly Toynbee

  • Celebrate: we have waited so long for this routing of the Tories. An unbearably rare moment of pure political joy

    Polly Toynbee

  • Labour may win big under first past the post, but it is morally obliged to bring in a fairer system

    Polly Toynbee

June 2024

  • The financial district in the City of London showing double decker buses in front of the Bank of England, and the Shard in the background

    Could central London, headquarters of God and mammon, really be turning red?

    Polly Toynbee
  • Rishi Sunak wearing a blue top, stepping out from the back seat of what appears to be a blue SUV.

    I went looking for the few remaining Tory voters. They don’t want Farage, but they don’t want Sunak either

    Polly Toynbee
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    The panel
    Does Labour’s manifesto deliver what the country needs? Our panel’s verdict

    George Monbiot, Polly Toynbee, Devi Sridhar, Jonn Elledge, Peter Apps, Frances Ryan, Kojo Koram, Zoe Gardner, Simon Tisdall, Larry Elliott and Charlotte Higgins
  • Nigel Farage delivers a speech at Church House in Westminster, London on 10 June 2024.

    Europe is lurching right on immigration. Despite Farage and Sunak’s best efforts, Britain will not follow

    Polly Toynbee

  • Infant mortality is rising and births are plummeting. This is the legacy of 14 years of Tory cruelty

    Polly Toynbee

  • I’ll welcome a Labour victory and a brighter future, but Britain deserves a better election than this

    Polly Toynbee

May 2024

  • Keir Starmer, Diane Abbott and John McDonnell wait for Jeremy Corbyn to take to the stage on September 24, 2019 in Brighton, England. After the Supreme Court ruled the prorogation of Parliament was unlawful, the House of Commons Speaker John Bercow announced that Parliament would re-convene at 11.30am Wednesday morning. Jeremy Corbyn's keynote speech to Labour Conference was brought forward to Tuesday afternoon in place of Deputy Leader Tom Watson's speech which was cancelled. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

    Memo to Labour amid the Diane Abbott debacle: stop the pointless rows, stop making enemies

    Polly Toynbee
    The party needs to move its campaign on from stories about factionalist infighting – and get on with winning, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
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