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WHILE Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures claimed yesterday that ‘real pay’ has fallen by just 2.3% in the last three months, a Which?...

DESPITE the Tories’ assurances that no one will be evicted during the pandemic, any renters who have built up arrears before the pandemic face...

OVER 1,000 striking junior doctors rallied in Whitehall outside Downing Street on Friday afternoon, at the beginning of another four-day strike to defend the...

TWENTY five Sixth Form Colleges take their second day of strike action today against savage cuts to pay, funding, courses and staff. The strikers, who...

TORY PM Johnson was joined by head of NHS England Simon Stevens at a joint press conference yesterday afternoon in which they reported 492...

STUDENTS and university staff are furious after the Tory government inst-ructed them to remain in their student halls and not to return home before...

‘FIRST thing is we will vote against Theresa May’s deal,’ John McDonnell Labour Shadow Chancellor said yesterday about her Brexit deal, after the government...

GP LEADERS are dismayed as the UK Secretary of State refuses to give additional help to GP practices. The Health and Social Care Secretary is...

PICKET lines outside ambulance stations around the country received a cacophony of support from passing vehicles as 23,000 ambulance worker members of Unison, the...

‘WE KNOW that we are going to see more hospitalisations and more deaths from Covid,’ Tory PM Johnson admitted at yesterday’s 5.00pm press conference...

‘THERE are no depths to which P&O and their Dubai owners at DP World will not sink to extract the maximum profit from ferry...

FORD has almost doubled the amount of job losses to hit car workers in the UK; now as many as 3,100 face the sack...

STRIKING Birmingham bin workers have overwhelmingly rejected, by 97%, the council’s ‘totally inadequate’ offer, with hundreds of members of the Unite union voting against...

TORY Chancellor Rishi Sunak has confirmed that he will extend the furlough scheme across the UK until the end of March. Sunak said the scheme...

THE SUSPENSION of national strike action across 150 universities by the UCU lecturers union was condemned by a leading London member of the union...

NEARLY 37,000 people in Scotland were paid less than the statutory minimum wage last year, while employers across the UK owe workers an average...

LABOUR PM Keir Starmer is poised for a clash with the unions after downplaying the likelihood of real-terms pay rises for public sector workers...

MORE than 100,000 workers, students and youth marched from Parliament Square from Downing Street in Whitehall to the American Embassy in Battersea on Saturday...

ENGLAND’S biggest-ever strike ballot is on the cards, confirmed the University and College Union (UCU) yesterday, after it entered into dispute with 88 English...

‘THE damage that you’re doing to families like mine is terrible,’ the mother of a sick three-year-old girl told Tory Health Secretary Stephen Barclay...

‘TUC GET OFF YOUR KNEES, CALL A GENERAL STRIKE!’ rang out outside the Brighton conference centre as the TUC three-day Congress opened yesterday. Hundreds of...

‘BOOTS on the ground, planes in the air,’ Labour Prime Minister Starmer declared in the House of Commons yesterday. In a speech to a packed...

THE SOCIAL Mobility Commission in its State of the Nation report 2021, published yesterday, has unveiled in detail the devastating impact of coronavirus on...

ON Thursday, Sajid Javid, the Tory Health Secretary, made a euphoric speech to the Health Service Journal Digital Transformation Summit. He praised the Covid pandemic...

THE RMT rail union will hold a series of 48-hour strikes in December and January after industry bosses failed to offer any new deals...

CASES of police abusing their role for sexual gain have risen sharply, the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) warned yesterday, revealing the fact...

MPs have been called to Parliament for a special Saturday sitting on 19th October, following a meeting of the EU’s EC on Friday which...

THE MET POLICE Commissioner Cressida Dick in light of scandal after scandal engulfing the police force has sent a letter to all 43,000 officers...

LABOUR PARTY leader Starmer said yesterday the Labour Party is on track to win the next general election, after taking control of key councils...

‘I WANT to see this community testing which has been successful in Liverpool rolled out right across the tier three areas, as much as...

THE NUMBER of homeless people dying on the streets of England has dramatically increased by 25% over five years, while the sheer scale of...

STRIKING Brunel University lecturers manning the picket lines in Uxbridge, west London yesterday, called for their UCU union to call national strike action to...

Tory Prime Minister Boris Johnson was forced to deliver a squirming account of his failure to take the UK out of the EU on...

TRAIN drivers at more than a dozen companies will strike on Friday, 1 September and refuse to work overtime on Saturday, 2 September, their...

NHS England (NHSE) is pressing ahead with setting up a new emergency care system, under the guise of reducing crowding in A&E departments. Patients will...

SUNAK and the Tory government are ‘so bereft of public support that they cower in fear’ of calling a general election, while the Starmer...

TORY PM Johnson announced severe restrictions to be imposed on Liverpool yesterday to try to tackle the coronavirus crisis. He said he supported the Metro...

PATIENTS are suffering as the prime minister fails to tackle the waiting list crisis, RCN warns, as new analysis reveals decade of misery. The prime...

THE RCN (Royal College of Nursing) has called on the Health Secretary to open negotiations on NHS pay as new research shows the UK...

THE CLOSURE of the Alexander Dennis (ADL) plant in Guildford this week after 125 years of vehicle building with the loss of 200 jobs...

THE METROPOLITAN Police have thrown a spanner into the works of the rapidly developing crisis in the Tory government and party. There is now confusion...

UNDER plans unveiled by the government, NHS care in England will be significantly shifted out of hospitals and into newly proposed ‘neighbourhood health centres’. Prime...

NTHABELENG, a 28-year-old nurse on the front line of South Africa’s Covid-19 pandemic, is exhausted and afraid. Each day, she begins her shift haunted by...

THE BMA is to survey junior doctors on possible action to take following massive anger over their exclusion from the NHS ‘pay award’. The BMA...

‘OUR CRIMINAL justice system is in crisis, it’s no exaggeration to say it’s in meltdown,’ Criminal Bar Association (CBA) Chairman Jo Sidhu QC told...