Reform UK candidate says women should stay at home and look after the kids instead of going to work
So much for Farage’s ‘beefed up’ vetting of candidates, clearly people with disgraceful and bigoted views are still being let through.
Green MP calls on Keir Starmer to resign over Peter Mandelson scandal in fiery PMQs speech
‘Does the prime minister not recognise that the best thing he can do to restore trust […] is to take true responsibility and resign?’
Farage told to act over Reform local election candidates with racist, sexist and homophobic views
Reform continues to allow candidates with “grotesque” views to stand for the party
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The government’s proposals will do little to check fat-cattery or improve corporate governance
Fat-cats have no shame and shareholders have no long-term commitment to any company. New measures won’t work.
It’s time for Labour to back patients when it comes to medical marijuana
This month the medical marijuana industry announced its first ever conference in the UK. Paul Millar argues Labour should now get behind patients on the issue.
ACTION: Tell Asda and Sainsbury’s to drop the tampon tax
The Co-Op have become the latest supermarket to scrap the 5% VAT rate on sanitary products. It’s time for the last ones holding out to follow suit.
Scottish Labour leadership race: Who will replace Kezia Dugdale?
As Kezia Dugdale stands down, we look at who’s in the running to become the party’s fifth leader in six years.
It’s official: The public have no faith in May to secure a good Brexit deal
A new study by HOPE Not Hate reveals just how divided England is on Britain’s departure from the EU. But they’re united when it comes to the PM.
Labour should champion free movement indefinitely, not just for a “transitional period”
Polls show advocating free movement doesn’t spell electoral suicide — even a majority of Leave voters support it. Labour needs to wake up to this.
A Brexit group just called the EU’s chief negotiator a “smackhead” on their official Twitter
The Leave.EU campaign, funded by UKIP businessman Arron Banks, tweeted the remark to 136,000 followers.
May drops promise to curb corporate excess, slammed by unions as “feeble”
She promised radical reform in boardrooms and that “big business needs to change”, but the plans unveiled today maintain the status quo in the City.
Norman Tebbit calls Left ‘fascists’ then has pop at Dianne Abbot, Sadiq Khan and the LGBT movement
The Conservative life peer and former Thatcher minister said ‘real fascism comes from the Left’ in a pitiful article for the Telegraph yesterday.
Look Left: This week’s most read
From fast-food fights to federalism, and from dodgy finance to four-day weeks – our top stories on Left Foot Forward this week.