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Tories ridiculed for proposing to ban four day week

Chris Jarvis
Yesterday

“Yet again we witness the political gymnastics of this outdated and out of touch Conservative Party descend into a collective swoon over the terrifying prospect of a council functioning better whilst saving the tax-payer money.”

A group of people on a stage with a sign reading four day week

New petition calls for referendum on public ownership of water

Chris Jarvis
Yesterday

Feargal Sharkey is backing the petition

WASP campaigners who have launched the petition for a referendum for public ownership of water

Labour’s achievements this week: Lifting 450,000 children out of poverty and delivering workers’ rights

Basit Mahmood
Yesterday

Change doesn’t happen overnight, yet slowly and surely, this government is delivering after 14 years of Tory austerity

Keir Starmer

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Five years since Rana Plaza, we must all learn lessons from the Bangladesh Accord

Jean Lambert MEP
25 April, 2018

Will the UK continue to use trade agreements to improve human rights after Brexit?

There’s a good reason why we shouldn’t fund the NHS through National Insurance

Josiah Mortimer
25 April, 2018

The road to health is paved with good intentions…

PM warns her ministers to stay away from customs union vote

Joana Ramiro
24 April, 2018

With her Brexit strategy falling apart, Theresa May has reportedly whipped her cabinet to stay well clear of a backbencher debate being held later this week.

The government just got savaged in the Lords over human rights

Joana Ramiro
24 April, 2018

Lord Pannick led the charge against May’s Brexiteer Cabinet in a debate over keeping EU’s human rights charter in British law – and won.

The government are ducking the question of workers’ rights after Brexit

Jude Kirton-Darling
24 April, 2018

Is a non-regression clause worth more than the paper it’s written on? Jude Kirton-Darling writes.

Islands of opposition: What it’s like being the only Green councillor

Josh Dell
23 April, 2018

Caroline Russell has been the only non-Labour councillor in Islington for the last four years. Josh Dell reports on the need for electoral reform.

A Labour MP is being targeted with racist mail after Windrush scandal

Joana Ramiro
23 April, 2018

David Lammy shared an abusive letter he received, telling him that as a black man he should be “grateful” to be in Britain.

CBI boss slams Cabinet Minister over customs union comments

Joana Ramiro
23 April, 2018

Business leader Paul Drechsler did not mince his words after Sajid Javid called for Britain to leave the customs union.

Is the government on the verge of a Customs Union u-turn?

Josiah Mortimer
20 April, 2018

The PM is stuck between Brussels and the DUP and only has herself to blame…

social housing

What is in Labour’s housing Green Paper?

Kevin Gulliver
20 April, 2018

Housing expert Kevin Gulliver looks at the detail of Labour’s new housing plans.

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