A new strategy to help save UK manufacturing
Unite has launched a new strategy to help save UK manufacturing, writes Assistant General Secretary Tony Burke.
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RGF’s foot-dragging and half-measures leave regional economies in the cold
Kevin Meagher explains why even now the Regional Growth Fund money is finally starting to be allocated, everything is far from rosy in their implementation.
Were Tories even watching the same speech as the rest of us?
As yesterday’s round-up of reactions to Ed Miliband’s speech shows, it could be interpreted in a number of ways. Some saw it as a deliberately low-content affair, others as “actually quite funny“, while Left Foot Forward’s own Ed Jacobs sawtest
Government may yet see sense and throw a lifeline to Bombardier
There’s every chance sustained pressure will compel the government to search for a lifeline for Bombardier and change the way it approaches procurement strategy.
NO to AV: A campaign of the Tories, by the Tories, for the Tories
Three weeks from the referendum on the alternative vote, Dominic Browne reports on the extent to which the NO to AV campaign is funded and run by Tories.
Miliband makes case for AV at launch of Labour YES campaign
Tonight, Labour leader Ed Miliband made the case for electoral reform in a key note address at the launch of the Labour Yes campaign, reports Shamik Das.
Look Left – Tripoli tyrant hangs on – but for how long?
The top story this week has been the events in Libya, with a defiant Colonel Gaddafi this evening vowing to “fight those who are against us”, saying he wouldn’t be taken alive.
The nasty campaign: NO-to-AV stoops to new low
The Tory-led NO to AV campaign have over-stepped the mark with their latest advert against the alternative vote.
Axing EMA is not a tough choice – it’s a stupid one
It’s not the tough choices that need to be evaded, it’s the stupid ones – and axing Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA) falls right into that category.
Is the ‘Green Red’ dead?
Labour’s former Climate Change Secretary has been quiet on green issues since his election. Effective opposition means holding the Government to account.