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Reform’s first year running councils: ‘The atmosphere in the chamber has changed’

Olivia Barber
28 April, 2026 (2 days ago)

Reform’s first year running councils seems to have been defined by a focus on ‘culture war’ issues

Nigel Farage gets heckled at London local election launch

LFF Live: How do we clean up politics? With the Good Law Project

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Union says anti-strike legislation ‘scapegoats NHS workers’

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
8 January, 2023

‘A government that has presided over 13 years of failure in our public services is now seeking to scapegoat the NHS staff and ambulance workers who do so much to care for the people of our country.’

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‘Baffling’: Sunak’s maths plan slammed from every direction

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
7 January, 2023

One commentator described the proposal to ensure all pupils continue to study maths until they are 18 as a ‘cringe-inducing lack of vision.’

‘Knives Out’: Will Boris be back in 2023?

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
7 January, 2023

As a dire electoral future beckons the Tories, desperate times call for desperate measures, lighting the touchpaper for a possible return of Boris Johnson.

GMB interview with Lynch

Mick Lynch round-up: best moments of the week

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
7 January, 2023

The RMT union general secretary has started 2023 with a bang, continuing to stump overzealous and ill-prepared interviewers and critics with calm, confident, and authentic responses.

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

A four day week is crucial to building an economy that respects workers’ wellbeing

Amelia Womack
6 January, 2023

‘We need to ensure that we are building a new economic model focused around workers and their wellbeing while also ensuring that they receive a decent salary.’

Sunak PMQS
Opinion

The government has declared war on workers

Prem Sikka
6 January, 2023

The full might of the state is being used to discipline and cheapen labour

Mick Lynch
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Mick Lynch interview: RMT willing to work with Labour Party and progressives to resist anti-strike laws

Basit Mahmood
6 January, 2023

“It’s an outrageous attack on our civil liberties and on democracy in our country. The trade unions are the bastion of democracy and the bastion of rights and the ability for people to organise independently”

Rishi Sunak sitting with Kemi Badenoch
Opinion

Promised post-Brexit trade deals remain a fantasy

Tony Burke
6 January, 2023

‘All in all, the fantasy of countries queuing up to sign trade agreements with ‘Global Britain’ and filling the gap left by Brexit remains just that – a fantasy.’

Nadine Dorries
News

Nadine Dorries savages Rishi Sunak and accuses him of flushing Tories’ policies down the drain

Basit Mahmood
5 January, 2023

“Poor Nadine Dorries was so desperate to destroy Channel Four … yet it’s not only saved but enhanced”.

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Friends of the Earth takes legal action against government over new coalmine in Cumbria

Basit Mahmood
5 January, 2023

“The steel industry is under no illusion that it must decarbonise if we’re to meet our climate goals”

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