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EXCLUSIVE: John McDonnell says Labour general secretary David Evans has ‘destroyed community organising’

Basit Mahmood
22 September, 2021

“What general secretary can be considered a success when you’ve lost nearly 150,000 members and when the party’s in disarray as a result of a purge?”

Keir Starmer speaking at a lectern

Keir Starmer faces growing backlash over plans to scrap Labour leadership rules that got Corbyn elected

LFF Reporter
21 September, 2021

Starmer has put forward proposals to scrap Labour’s one-member-one-vote approach to party leadership elections, where every party member’s vote had equal value, in favour of an electoral college, in which MPs would have greater say.

EXCLUSIVE: John McDonnell says ‘Labour Party’s purge is having a severe impact on mental health of members’

Basit Mahmood
21 September, 2021

“We’ve lost over 100,000 members, some people say 150,000, that’s the army that goes out and fights the elections for us”.

What to expect from the Labour conference: Division and a lack of clarity from Starmer

Liam Barrett
18 September, 2021

‘Starmer has not been the unifying leader many had envisaged, nor has he continued to advocate for the ten pledges he put to the membership a mere eighteen months ago.’

Keir Starmer speaking at a lectern

Backlash from Labour activists and MPs after Green New Deal motion blocked

LFF Reporter
17 September, 2021

‘Labour for a Green New Deal described the move as ‘anti-democratic’ which was designed to ‘silence members, making a mockery of any commitment to bold climate action’.

What does Sharon Graham’s win mean for Unite and the Labour Party

Basit Mahmood
26 August, 2021

There is no doubt that Graham’s win will mean a major organisational shake up for Unite

Unite candidates offer final messages to members as general secretary election draws to a close

Basit Mahmood
20 August, 2021

Candidates for the Unite general secretary election are making a final push in the last days of campaigning.

Man with mask holding vaccine

A quarter of bosses are not giving staff paid time off to get vaccinated

Basit Mahmood
12 August, 2021

Polling also found that 26 percent of employers had not been paying full company sick pay to staff who are off sick with COVID vaccine side effects.

Tories face backlash over plans that could allow animal testing for cosmetic ingredients

Basit Mahmood
12 August, 2021

Animal testing on ingredients exclusively used in cosmetics was banned in the UK in 1998.

Backlash continues over Boris Johnson’s ‘unbelievably crass’ joke about Thatcher closing coal mines

Basit Mahmood
6 August, 2021

‘These are shameful comments from Boris Johnson, and reveal the Conservative party’s utter disregard for the communities still scarred by Thatcher’s closure of the mines’

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