It’s the end of the Parliamentary session, and Rachel has called on the coalition government for immediate action to help small and medium sized businesses. In an article for Left Foot Forward, Rachel has criticised the government’s lack of action to ens… more »

Responding to the first meeting of the Business, Innovation and Skills Select Committee, Rachel has attacked the government for having 'no coherent strategy for growth and no sensible evidence-based process for deciding where the cuts must fall.'  In … more »

In this article, Rachel analyses where the impacts of the recent budget will fall, and finds that the people of Leeds West will suffer disproportionately. more »

Rachel Reeves, Labour Member of Parliament for Leeds West, has criticised the coalition's 'shallow' commitment to reducing child poverty by 2020. In an article on Labourlist, which you can access here, Rachel argues that the failure to roll out pilot s… more »

The Guardian today discusses how spending cuts may affect Leeds. Rachel is fighting hard to protect the Kirkstall Forge scheme which she has supported for a long time - hard hats were the order of the day with former Leeds West MP John Battle when they p… more »

This is the text of my guest article, published today on www.leftfootforward.org: There was much to welcome in David Cameron’s first major speech as Prime Minster in Yorkshire on Friday. Indeed much of it was consistent with the industrial policy Labou… more »