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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But the nature of organising in XR meant that ‘autonomous’ groups could go ahead and do it anyway. Cue public backlash.
What’s in Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal – and how is it different to May’s?
IPPR comparison of Johnson and May’s Brexit deals finds the PM’s deal is a ‘harder’ version than his predecessor’s.
The Alternative Queen’s Speech: Green peers launch plans for climate action and Lords abolition
Baroness Jenny Jones has published what the Queen should have said on Monday….
Extinction Rebellion under fire over attempt to shut down tube stations
Rush-hour trains disrupted with commuters physically targeting protesters ahead of High Court hearing against protest ban.
Johnson’s Brexit deal must be put to public vote, say campaigners
Boris Johnson’s new Brexit deal may yet face obstacles, note commentators from left campaign groups to the Lib Dems.
What a viable Remain Alliance could look like
Rob Bryher examines the consequences if Remainers or anti-Tories join forces to fight Brexit.
Why Saturday’s Brexit march could change the course of politics
This is our chance to show the tide is turning, writes the NUS’ Erica Ramos.
Court documents submitted to challenge ‘blanket ban’ on Extinction Rebellion protests
Lawyers for XR say the ban is a ‘disproportionate and unprecedented curtailment of the right to free speech and free assembly’.
Report: How unions are facing down the industrial impact of Brexit at work
Brexit has to be treated as a collective bargaining issue, a new report for Unite shows.
Workers will soon have a choice to make: a ‘Trumpian Brexit’ or uniting across Europe
There’s a new frontier for the Labour movement: ‘platform capitalism’. Remaining in the EU can tame it.