All articles written by Jon Ashworth MP on PoliticsHome.com

19 May 2021 Coronavirus

Ministers Urged To End "Confusion" For Public After Contradictory Advice Over International Travel

The government have come under fire over their public messaging following two days of contradictory advice about their traffic-light travel system.

13 May 2021 Health

Ministers must face up to the addiction crisis and its devastating consequences

The huge increase in alcohol related deaths is one of the worst consequences of the Covid-related mental health emergency. Without action, many more could pay a tragic price.

11 Mar 2021 Health

Labour Has Rejected Boris Johnson's Claims He Did Not Mislead MPs Over NHS Pay Comments

Boris Johnson has come under yet more pressure to clarify comments he made at Prime Minister's Questions amid claims he misled MPs over Labour’s vote record on pay rises for NHS staff.

08 Mar 2021 Health

Tory MPs In Backlash Against NHS Pay Plan As They Urge Ministers To Do "Everything They Can" To Boost Offer

Ministers are facing growing calls from their own party's MPs to u-turn on their controversial plans to offer NHS staff a 1% pay rise.

21 Feb 2021 Health

The government’s reorganisation of the NHS risks doing more harm than good. Patients must be at the heart of it

David Cameron’s top-down reorganisation was ‘sold’ as the reorganisation to end all reorganisations. We were promised reduced bureaucracy and improved cancer survival rates.

07 Sep 2020 Coronavirus

The Environment Secretary Says Another Lockdown Would Be An "Absolute Last Resort", Despite A Surge in Covid-19 Cases

Environment Secretary George Eustice has said reimposing a full-scale nation lockdown was "an absolute last resort" despite a jump in coronavirus cases.

18 May 2020 Coronavirus

Government accused of ‘misstep after misstep’ after contact tracing applicants wrongly told hiring paused

The Government has been accused of “misstep after misstep” in their plan to develop a track and trace programme to combat coronavirus after applicants were wrongly told hiring was paused.

07 May 2020 Coronavirus

Without bold and urgent action, Covid-19 will widen health inequalities

Covid-19 is a ticking time bomb. While this virus is a deadly risk for everyone, we can’t ignore its disproportionate impact in poorer and BAME communities.

29 Apr 2020 Coronavirus

The lockdown alone won’t rid us of this virus – but it buys us time to develop the plan

The British public can be proud of their action in staying home and suppressing coronavirus. But if we are to win this battle, a new strategy based on testing, tracing and isolating is crucial

10 Apr 2020 Coronavirus

Coronavirus: Ministers under pressure to set out plan for how the UK exits lockdown

Ministers are coming under mounting pressure to set out how they plan to ease the restrictions imposed on the country to tackle the coronavirus.

21 Sep 2019 Health

Jonathan Ashworth MP: The NHS is at breaking point and must be the central issue of the next election

Labour will bring forward a long-term investment plan for the NHS to ensure it has the funding and staff it needs, writes Jonathan Ashworth MP

09 Apr 2019 Health

Anti-vax propaganda could fuel a public health crisis and big tech must be held to account

We can’t allow fake news and pernicious propaganda to undermine a medical advance that has helped save so many lives. This is about the health and wellbeing of our children. It would be shameful tragedy if we failed them by not acting, says Jon Ashworth MP.

23 Sep 2018 Health

A Labour government will breathe life back into our NHS

Under Labour, patients would receive the quality of care they deserve, writes shadow health secretary Jon Ashworth ahead of conference

31 Aug 2018 Health

Why I’m endorsing ‘Scroll Free September’

It is time to consider excessive social media use to be the next great public health challenge facing our nation. Labour will not let our children down, says Shadow Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Jon Ashworth MP.

28 Jun 2018 Health

The new NHS funding settlement falls far short of tackling the crisis

After years of austerity, the government’s cash-injection pledge still leaves the NHS chronically underfunded. Jon Ashworth offers an alternative prescription

09 Feb 2018 Health

Jonathan Ashworth MP: Theresa May should be ashamed of the NHS crisis Downing Street has created

Shadow Health Secretary Jon Ashworth says hospital corridors are now routinely being used as wards as the Government starves the NHS of cash.

31 Dec 2017 Communities

Help for kids with alcoholic parents could be a New Year's lifeline for those growing up as I did

A new strategy to help kids with alcoholic parents could be a New Year’s lifeline for thousands experiencing what I and so many others have gone through, says Jon Ashworth MP.

17 Oct 2017 Health

Jonathan Ashworth MP: The Government is failing health visitors and the children they work with

Shadow Health Secretary Jon Ashworth calls for a 21st Century public health service in which no child is left behind.

13 Sep 2017 Home affairs

I’m calling on Tory MPs to put aside party politics and support our motion to give NHS staff a fair pay rise

Following the announcement the Government is set to lift the 1% public sector pay cap, Shadow Health Secretary Jon Ashworth calls for the Tories to do more.

05 Apr 2017 Health

Jon Ashworth MP & Lord Falconer: Broken legal commitment to waiting time target shows how little the Tories care about the NHS

Shadow Health Secretary Jon Ashworth and Lord Falconer write for PoliticsHome, admonishing the Government for breaking the law by giving up on waiting time target.

12 Aug 2016

Jonathan Ashworth MP: Growing list of Tory failures await PM after holiday

Shadow Cabinet member Jonathan Ashworth writes that when the Prime Minister returns from her break in Switzerland she will be confronted with a long list of Government failures including the row over grammar schools and rail strikes.

04 Jul 2016 Economy

Budget surplus announcement is simply not good enough

Labour Shadow Cabinet member Jon Ashworth MP calls for the Chancellor to explain his announcement about the Treasury missing their budget surplus target.

21 Mar 2016 Economy

Jonathan Ashworth MP: Osborne 'has failed his party, failed the economy and failed our country'

Shadow Minister without portfolio, Jonathan Ashworth MP writes for PoliticsHome following last week's Budget and the subsequent resignation of DWP Secretary Iain Duncan Smith.

07 Jan 2016

10 problems filling up David Cameron’s 2016 in-tray

Jon Ashworth, the Shadow Minister without Portfolio, says the problems facing David Cameron in this New Year "are already piling up".

25 Aug 2015

Jonathan Ashworth MP: It's time to hold the Tories to account

Shadow Cabinet Office Minister Jonathan Ashworth MP argues the Labour leadership contest has let the Conservative Government off the hook in its first 100 days on issues like broken promises on childcare, delays to rail electrification and false DWP claims supporting welfare reforms.