PCS announces one-day strike of 100,000 civil servants
‘We warned the government our dispute would escalate if they did not listen’
Basit Mahmood
HMRC failed to collect £42bn in UK tax last year, MPs say
“The eye-watering £42bn now owed to HMRC in unpaid taxes would have filled a lot of this year’s infamous public spending black hole”
Mick Lynch makes Tory MP look utterly clueless during questions at Select Committee
“What about the days when we’re not on strike, when it’s absolutely useless as well?”.
‘They’ve gone from clapping the nurses to sacking the nurses’, Sunak roasted at PMQs by Keir Starmer
“The simple truth is you can’t legislate your way out of 13 years of failure.”
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Angela Rayner eviscerates Tory anti-strike bill in the House of Commons
“How he goes on with one breath thanking nurses to sacking nurses”
Grant Shapps photoshops Boris Johnson out of his picture
“If only we could do the same with the past decade of British politics.”
MUST WATCH: Unite blasts Tory hypocrisy after government demand further ‘productivity savings’ during pay talks
“That is absolutely ludicrous. This isn’t a factory we’re talking about, we’re talking about people who are working well beyond their contracted hours anyway”
TUC calls on MPs to reject ‘attack on the right to strike’ as bill comes to parliament today
“That’s undemocratic, unworkable, and almost certainly illegal.”
FTSE 100 CEO pay is up 39% to an average of £3.4million as ordinary workers continue to struggle
FTSE 100 chief executives are paid £3.4m on average, which works out at 103 times the £33,000 average salary for full-time UK workers