TORIES WANT A NEW LEADER TO MEET TRUMP ON JUNE 3rd
PM MAY’S Brexit Withdrawal Bill will not be published or debated until early June, the government said yesterday as she came under more pressure...
Removing 2-metre rule risks second wave warn unions
DESPITE announcing yesterday a seven-day rolling average of 130 people a day dying from Covid-19, Tory PM Johnson announced measures to ‘safely ease the...
Covid-19 Crisis – London Moves To Tier 3!
‘WE MUST act now to shift the curve, when the virus develops exponentially there is not a moment to spare.’ This is what Matt Hancock,...
CORBYN SUSPENDED! – He vows to fight this ‘political intervention’
LABOUR leader Keir Starmer has suspended his predecessor Jeremy Corbyn from the party over his remarks yesterday about anti-Semitism in the Labour Party. Corbyn was...
NHS workers immigration status victory – Home Office forced to U-turn yesterday morning!
THE TORIES, under fire from all sides have had to make a U-turn on their policy over the immigration status of NHS workers. Until yesterday...
INDUSTRIAL ACTION BACK ON AGENDA OF SCHOOLS IN ENGLAND – one-off payment of £1,000...
INDUSTRIAL action in English schools is back on the agenda after three education unions – the NEU, NAHT and ASCL – decisively rejected the...
More than 30 Labour MPs oppose Starmer’s assault on benefits – 4.5 million...
KEIR Starmer and Rachel Reeves are facing the most significant internal revolt since taking office, as more than 30 Labour backbenchers prepare to oppose...
State witch-hunt on labour
THE witchhunt against the Labour Party and its leader Corbyn is being stepped up with the news that The Equalities and Human Rights Commission...
Thousands of teachers march on Downing Street! – ‘TUC will defend right to strike’...
THOUSANDS of teachers, students, and supporters gathered in London yesterday on the fifth day of strikes this year, organised by the National Education Union...
UK protest against Nigeria’s police killings
OVER 2,000 angry Nigerians demanding their president ‘Buahari must go’ demonstrated outside the Nigerian Commission in London on Wednesday evening before marching to Downing...
Capita Closing Third Of Offices
OUTSOURCING firm Capita is to close over a third of its offices in the UK permanently – despite the Tory government launching a new...
Trump drug deal set to cost £45bn and 229,000 lives
THE NHS will have to divert almost 45 billion pounds from frontline services to pay for costlier medicines under the UK-US trade deal struck...
Labour PM Starmer chairs a European leaders summit at Lancaster House in The Mall
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...
Scotland Yard To Be Investigated!
SCOTLAND Yard is to be investigated over its failure to deal with an allegation of two acts of indecent exposure by a serving police...
350 London Transit workers on two days strike over pay
OVER 350 workers employed by London Transit bus company are taking strike action today and Monday after rejecting the company’s latest pay offer. ‘We are...
BMA rebuts ‘derogation’ attack
THE British Medical Association yesterday rebutted right wing attacks on its ‘derogation’ system, whereby the NHS can ask for resident doctors, who are taking...
Junior Doctors and Consultants begin 3 days of strike action
JUNIOR Doctors and Consultants begin three days of joint strike action at 7am this morning, determined to defend the NHS and defeat the Tory...
Grenfell–‘Companies Killed 72 People!’
THE COMPANIES that carried out the Grenfell Tower refurbishment killed 72 people ‘just as surely as if they had taken careful aim with a...
Grimsby maternity support workers begin two week strike
MATERNITY support workers in Grimsby began two weeks of strike action yesterday, over their employer’s failure to compensate them fairly for the many years...
RCN Demands A 5% Above Inflation Pay Rise
FOLLOWING the ONS (Office of National Statistics) announcement yesterday that inflation in the 12 months to May soared to 11.7%, the RCN (Royal College...
UK-US CRISIS – Washington to challenge Chinese investment in UK
A CLAUSE in the newly signed UK-US trade agreement has provoked fierce criticism after it was revealed that Washington will be granted powers to...
‘Closures Being Cynically Fast-Tracked’ Says Unite!
THE CLOSURE of the Alexander Dennis (ADL) plant in Guildford this week after 125 years of vehicle building with the loss of 200 jobs...
Labour crashes to historic defeat in Welsh election!
MORE than a century of Labour dominance in Wales ended yesterday as the party crashed to a historic defeat in the Senedd election, losing...
US-UK Are Routed In Kabul – ‘A Strategic Disaster’ – Liam Fox
THE Taliban took control of Afghanistan yesterday, with the collapsing NATO-backed government shrieking in its fear that they are entering the capital, Kabul, ‘from...
Renationalise Thomas Cook!
NINE thousand Thomas Cook workers lost their jobs yesterday with a further 20,000 threatened across Europe as the company, founded in 1841, went bust....
Tory war on teachers and their unions
THE TORY government issued details about how it intends to use its Minimum Service Levels (MSL) anti-strike laws to wage war against education workers...
Hostile Environment – Youth targeted & charged £2,033 every 30 months
THE TORIES’ Hostile Environment is alive and kicking with a new extortionate fee of £2,033 charged every 30 months, targeting people whose immigration status...
NHS hospital managers must be accountable! say BMA consultants
THE lead consultant on the neonatal unit where Lucy Letby worked said yesterday that hospital managers should be regulated in a similar way to...
‘Stop shameful deportations!’ of people who came to the UK as children
THE GOVERNMENT must end the deportation of foreign-born offenders who came to the UK as children, according to a draft report into the Windrush...
Ealing strikers demand indefinite action
EALING Parking Services workers were on the picket line outside Ealing Town Hall yesterday on the third day of three days of strike action...
Tories ‘concealed building safety risks’ – Grenfell inquiry hears
THE GRENFELL Inquiry heard yesterday that the government ‘concealed the risks of building safety’ and that deregulation ‘should be regarded as one of the...
Stop starving Gaza! – pots & pans protest outside Foreign Office
‘STOP starving Gaza!’ Medical Aid for Palestine (MAP) protesters demanded yesterday as they banged pots and pans outside the Foreign Office in Whitehall, central...
Infection out of control – ‘Isolation exemptions will spread Covid-19’ – BMA stark warning!
STAFF isolation exemptions are absolutely the wrong answer to the government’s failure to control spiralling infection rates, says doctors’ union the BMA. Responding to news...
Johnson is risking a second spike – warns BMA – While Unite wants permanent...
‘SO WE ARE at real risk, without any coherence without any safeguards, that the infection could have a second surge,’ warned Chaand Nagpaul, Chair...
‘Our NHS is not for sale to the US!’ – Corbyn tells anti-Trump rally
‘THIS SHOULD not be a debate about how we go forward with a no deal Brexit and at the same time offering up our...
Court of Appeal finds for Bell Hotel asylum seekers!
THE COURT of Appeal has overturned a High Court injunction that would have forced asylum seekers to leave the Bell Hotel in Epping, Essex. Giving...
Tories have taken no action to stop another Grenfell
NEARLY two years since the Grenfell fire, in which 72 people lost their lives, the government has done nothing to adequately prepare fire and...
Police Arrest 523 Palestine Supporters
THE METROPOLITAN Police arrested 523 supporters of Palestine in Trafalgar Square in central London on Saturday, claiming they were showing support for a ‘proscribed...
Unite union claims partial BA U-turn – draft agreement to be put to ballot
UNITE union said yesterday that it welcomes what it has called British Airway’s ‘partial U-turn on fire and rehire’ but warns issues are ‘not...
‘NHS at breaking point’ – Says BMA deputy chair Dr David Wrigley
‘FROM HEALTH to social care, everything is at breaking point,’ deputy chair of the British Medical Association Council (BMA), Dr David Wrigley warned yesterday. ‘I...
Rolls Royce jobs massacre! – Unite calls for National Recovery Council with Tories
THE UNITE trade union has responded to the news that Rolls Royce is to cut 9,000 jobs globally, 3,375 of them in the UK,...
Unite Pleads With Tories To Extend Job Retention Scheme!
UNITE and over 100 MPs have joined forces to plead with Chancellor Rishi Sunak to extend the job retention scheme (JRS) for the aviation...
Corbyn moves against Brexit! – towards government of national unity
LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn has written to Cabinet Secretary Mark Sedwill asking him to rule out a no-deal Brexit on October 31, reneging on...
58 universities three days of strike action!
THREE consecutive days of strike action hitting 58 universities begin this morning after university bosses and their representatives refused to withdraw pension cuts or...
DOCTORS TAKE PENSIONS ACTION!–following the lead of the firefighters
AT least a dozen doctors are to take legal action against the government because they believe they were forced to join a pension scheme...