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Thousands sign petition calling for UK to join the European single market

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
Today

“It would make it easier for British companies to trade, collaborate and hire, and it would help restore the confidence international investors once had in the UK as a gateway to Europe.”

Brexit anniversary

5 Reform UK disasters this week

Olivia Barber
Yesterday

This week has seen Nigel Farage defend a Nazi salute and a homophobic joke, and U-turn on another policy pledge

Nigel Farage defends Senedd candidate's Nazi salute

Senior Reform UK figures panicking Trump links could cause them electoral damage

Basit Mahmood
Yesterday

Panic has set in among Reform’s senior figures

Nigel Farage refuses to condemn Trump's comments on LBC

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Boris Johnson

Unions slam Boris Johnson for telling Britons to learn from ‘disciplined’ Germans

Basit Mahmood
22 February, 2022

Statutory sick pay in Germany is 50% pay for 84 weeks, while in the UK statutory sick pay is £96.35 per week for 28 weeks.

Nigel Farage presenting on GB News

‘Totally deluded’: Arron Banks and Nigel Farage blame the EU over Putin’s aggression

Basit Mahmood
22 February, 2022

‘Not so much GB News as KGB News’

Eton

EXCLUSIVE: Voters support ending the charitable status of private schools, poll finds

Basit Mahmood
22 February, 2022

44% support ending the charitable status of private schools, compared to 15% who oppose any such move.

A photo of a trade union protest with the words "The UnionDues Column" overlaid

UnionDues: Reach, information and persuasion – the three pillars of (successful) union comms

Simon Sapper
22 February, 2022

We look at the world of union communications in the company of one of its most accomplished practitioners, Kevin Slocombe.

A pile of newspapers with text overlaid reading "Voices on the Left"

Voices on the Left: 5 blogs from the left you need to read this week

Basit Mahmood
21 February, 2022

A roundup of progressive news….

Daily Mail

Daily Mail slammed for ‘grotesquely offensive and insulting’ front page

Basit Mahmood
21 February, 2022

‘No-one should have to work while they’re sick.’

Boris Johnson

Wife of former Putin minister is on ‘shadow cabinet’ of Tory donors who have direct access to Boris Johnson

Basit Mahmood
21 February, 2022

Lubov Chernukhin is said to have lobbied against higher tax for the ultra-rich and is the largest female donor in British political history

Boris Johnson Tory corruption

How Tory attempts to strike a trade deal with the US are taking a farcical turn

Tony Burke
21 February, 2022

‘The UK government says it now believes that the US federal structure opens up opportunities to reach deals on a state by state basis’

Gambling

How the gambling industry buys friends in Parliament

Matt Zarb-Cousin
21 February, 2022

Between 60 and 85 per cent of profits from online gambling come from those either deemed problem gamblers or at risk.

Kevin Foster

Devolved ministers unite to contest ‘restrictive’ UK immigration policy

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
20 February, 2022

Representatives from NI, Wales and Scotland have written to the UK immigration minister calling for an ‘immediate review’ of the immigration system.

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