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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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?”.
Unions call out ‘mistruths’ over ambulance minimum service levels
Union representatives label Grant Shapps claim that ambulance minimum safety levels were not being met on strike days as ‘seriously misleading’.
‘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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A roundup of news on the left…
The biggest ambulance strike so far as thousands of workers walk out over pay and conditions
25,000 ambulance workers represented by the unions GMB and UNISON will go on strike over a 24-hour period in response to low pay and indecent working conditions.
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.”
Unions launch campaign to protect right to strike against anti-strike laws
‘Strike Map, who launched the campaign, announced yesterday that within a few hours, representatives for over 50,000 workers had already signed the letter supporting the right to strike.’