Resignation or resolve? What progressive party leaders are saying as the UK leaves the EU
Sadness, indifference and opportunism are all on show as leaders comment on Britain’s exit at 11pm on Friday.
Breakthrough: Leading NHS Trust brings 1,000 staff in-house after strike action
“We’ve proven that workers can win for themselves and patients up and down the country,” one of the workers at Imperial NHS Trust said.
Jeremy Corbyn’s spokesman: “There will be no tears” from Labour leader as UK leaves the EU on Friday
“Everyone accepts that we’ll be leaving the EU on Friday,” the Labour leader’s spokesman told journalists.
Defeated Tory candidate in university seat calls for crackdown on student voting
Sour grapes or the latest in the Tories’ disenfranchisement campaign?
Traveller and gypsy communities win victory over evictions
It’s a blow to the Tory government’s hopes of criminalising trespass.
SNP MP: Labour leadership contender’s comments on Scottish independence ‘insane’
LFF speaks to Scotland’s former justice secretary, after Lisa Nandy said Catalonia might provide inspiration on how to tackle nationalism.
Calls for justice overhaul as new figures reveal scale of prison overcrowding
The majority of prisons are overcrowded.
Labour figures are starting to embrace the idea of a second independence referendum
Former Scottish First Minister says Labour must ’embrace democracy’.
EXCLUSIVE: London uni strikers threaten to sue Met over ‘completely disproportionate’ response
The Metropolitan Police arrested and then de-arrested the United Voices of the World’s barrister.
NHS Trusts outsourcing pharmacies on huge scale due to perverse incentive
Bizarre VAT loophole means NHS Trusts are encouraged to hive off internal pharmacies to companies – putting the public service ethos at risk.