What does Sharon Graham’s win mean for Unite and the Labour Party
There is no doubt that Graham’s win will mean a major organisational shake up for Unite
Labour party
Unite candidates offer final messages to members as general secretary election draws to a close
Candidates for the Unite general secretary election are making a final push in the last days of campaigning.
A quarter of bosses are not giving staff paid time off to get vaccinated
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
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
‘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’
Government condemned for ‘using taxpayers’ money to pay for opinion polling on Labour Party politicians’
“This all makes me really uncomfortable. Ben Warner wants us to spend £110k of public money per month with the agency who were behind vote leave who have no mainstream polling experience.”
Gerard Coyne: “Obsessing around Westminster politics isn’t what I intend to be involved in”
LFF speaks to the Unite leadership candidate.
EXCLUSIVE: More voters think rich will try to ‘buy’ influence from Tories than from Labour
A poll found that twice as many people thought the rich trying to ‘buy’ influence in the government was more likely with a Conservative government than under Labour.
Unite’s Steve Turner says ‘no one can get close to his record’ and calls on Labour to offer ‘real opposition’
‘I am standing on my record and nobody can touch that, they won’t even get close.’
Labour launches petition asking ‘sulky’ Tory MP Lee Anderson not to watch the Euro 2020 final
‘Lee Anderson was born in 1967. Are we entirely sure it hasn’t been him watching that was the problem all along?’