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PRIME Minister Starmer delivered a speech in a Surrey hospital yesterday morning describing his proposed transformation of the NHS into a largely digital service,...

UK ENERGY bills are set to rise even higher, with suppliers warning of a ‘nationwide crisis’ and a 2008-style financial crash. Several ‘providers’ including Good...

‘COVID hospital numbers could get scary!’ Professor Chris Whitty said yesterday, adding that the UK is ‘not out of the woods yet’. ‘People should act...

LABOUR leader Sir Keir Starmer has called for Parliament to be recalled so MPs can abandon last week’s mini-budget ‘before any more damage is...

‘THE NHS long term plan is as much about prevention, and early diagnosis, as treatment and recovery,’ PM May said speaking on The Andrew...

LARGE numbers of Labour MPs will attend Communication Workers Union (CWU) picket lines again today, in defiance of the anti-union stance taken by party...

Doctors ‘feel like lambs to the slaughter and cannon fodder’, said the chair of the Doctors’ Association UK yesterday morning, demanding that frontline NHS...

ENGLISH College principals increased their pay by four times the rate recommended by the sector’s employer body, the University and College Union (UCU) has...

BUSINESS Secretary Jonathan Reynolds refused to confirm yesterday whether the government can get sufficient raw material supplies in time to keep the blast furnaces...

PRIVATE health trade body the Independent Healthcare Providers Network (IHPN) has welcomed the cross-party consensus on the key role of the independent sector in...

YESTERDAY’S King’s Speech was opened yesterday by King Charles III. The main issues in the King’s Speech were that ministers will support measures that control...

OVER 100 workers, students and youth attended the News Line Anniversary Rally at the Wheatsheaf Community Hall in Vauxhall, south west London on Saturday...

SCOTLAND’S highest civil court on Friday dismissed a legal bid to stop the UK government from seeking to pass its proposed EU withdrawal agreement...

PEOPLE across the country are being asked to put colourful posters in their windows in support of a proper NHS pay rise, in a...

LABOUR refused to demand Tory Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s resignation yesterday, following the revelation that he held a party in his Downing Street garden...

‘THE UK government’s extremism definition is a smash and grab on our human rights,’ Sacha Deshmukh, Amnesty International Chief Executive, said yesterday. He was speaking...

OVER 100 striking NHS facilities workers shouted ‘30p, No,no,no, ISS Shame on You’, as they marched along the quay at Canary Warf beating drums...

‘OUR members deserve fair pay and will be taking action for as long as it takes to get it,’ said Communications Workers Union (CWU)...

TUBE UNION RMT went ahead with strike action by tube drivers on Friday night. The action is over the ripping up of existing agreements and...

THERE were 150,000 workers, students and youth marching through the streets of London for Palestine from Hyde Park Corner to Whitehall on Saturday. As the...

NO DECISION has been made on how people under 50 should be offered a Covid vaccine, UK officials said yesterday. The UK’s Joint Committee on...

THE TORY government claimed yesterday that there is no threat to the UK gas supplies, despite four energy privateers being widely tipped to go...

THOUSANDS of postal workers have voted in favour of more strikes in the long-running dispute over pay. More than 95% of staff who voted in...

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...

THE DEEPLY unpopular Teaching Excellence Frame (Tef) work is failing students, hated by lecturers and not fit for purpose concludes a report released today...

MORE than 200 Lewisham residents turned out on Sunday afternoon to march and protest against the collaboration of the south east London Labour Council...

‘CLAPS don’t pay the bills!’ chanted over 100 junior doctors outside St Thomas’ Hospital in central London opposite the Houses of Parliament yesterday morning,...

‘I WANT someone tried and jailed like I was, then I am settled,’ Harjinder Butoy, who ran the Post Office in the Nottinghamshire market...

LABOUR moved a step closer to forming a national government yesterday with the Scottish and Welsh nationalists, the Liberal Democrats and the Greens all...

THERE was a crowd of over 50 people outside Woolwich Crown court demonstrating in solidarity with the Filton 25 yesterday. The court is considering in...

TORY PM Johnson’s new police state measures allowing police unlimited stop and search powers have been condemned by Stopwatch, while Shadow Home Secretary Diane...

THE UNITE and GMB trade unions have appealed to the government to announce a bespoke financial package to save the beleaguered aviation industry. The two...

‘CALL A National Strike Now!’ striking Birmingham binworkers are demanding at their mass rally today, which assembles at 9.30am at the Unite HQ, 30...

JONTY LEFF News Line editor told the News Line 50th Anniversary Rally, ‘TODAY we celebrate 50 years of the News Line, the only daily...

THE BAKERS’ union (BFAWU), which was one of the first unions to fight to set up the Labour Party in 1902, disaffiliated from the...

‘I KNOW that the British people hate the idea of unfairness. People like me who make the rules should be accountable for their actions,’...

PRIVATE firm G4S has been forced out of the immigration sector it was announced yesterday after the scandal at detention centre Brook House in...

‘FREE, Free Palestine’ chanted over 1,000 protesters waving Palestine flags outside the High Court yesterday. The court was holding an emergency hearing seeking a judicial...

TORY PM Johnson clashed yesterday with the EU’s Barnier over the thorny issue of Europeans fishing in UK waters and vice-versa. Speaking in Greenwich, Johnson...

‘WE HAVE responded, I think generously today, the grants that we have outlined, up to £6,000 are comparable to the grants that we provided...

LABOUR Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer chaired a European leaders war summit at Lancaster House in The Mall in central London yesterday. With hugs and...

TORY Home Secretary Braverman came under fire for her rabid attack on refugees and asylum seekers yesterday, with charity ActionAid UK calling her comments...

THE EU has announced retaliatory tariffs of up to 26bn euros (£22bn) on US imports, responding to President Donald Trump’s 25% levies on global...

THE homelessness charity Crisis said yesterday that what was already an emergency now risks becoming ‘a growing catastrophe’. Chief executive Matt Downie said: ‘The Scottish...

KEIR Starmer and Rachel Reeves are facing the most significant internal revolt since taking office, as more than 30 Labour backbenchers prepare to oppose...