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TORY PM Boris Johnson yesterday confirmed that if all attempts to get a deal with the EU fail then he is prepared leave the...

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...

AROUND 200 workers rallied at the the Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) near South Kensington Tube station yesterday, on their final day of strike...

TORY PM Truss threw down the gauntlet to the TUC at Prime Minister’s Questions in the House of Commons yesterday lunchtime, announcing: ‘We will...

MORE than 10,000 people have signed the BMA’s petition calling for the Westminster government to properly fund general practice and source more desperately-needed GPs. The...

15,000 FARMERS descended on Westminster yesterday to oppose the ‘Family Farm Tax’ – Inheritance Tax (IHT) – which the government wants to levy on...

HUNDREDS of workers joined yesterday’s Harland and Wolff Rally in Belfast, with speakers reiterating their demand for the renationalisation of the shipyard. Unite Regional Coordinating...

THE TUC Congress opened in Brighton yesterday afternoon with delegates supporting the Young Socialists and Workers Revolutionary Party lobby calling for strike action for...

OVER 100,000 workers, students and youth marched for Palestine on Saturday, from Piccadilly to Whitehall. There were thousands of Palestinian flags, several trade union banners...

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...

LABOUR Prime Minister Keir Starmer will focus on growth and wealth creation, he told selected guests and media in the Downing Street rose garden...

THE NATIONAL Audit Office (NAO) has launched a probe into supply chain finance firm Greensill Capital following its collapse, which threatens to end the...

BREXIT Secretary Stephen Barclay made clear to the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show yesterday that the Johnson Tory government has no ‘cunning plan’ to avoid...

LABOUR Chancellor John Healey delivered a bosses’ and bankers’ budget yesterday, opening with a warning that ‘what we face today are global economic storms’. Fearful...

REPEATED catastrophic failures at an NHS trust meant that more than 200 babies may have died and that many others were left with life-changing...

‘Grant Shapps needs to stop smearing the RMT and unshackle the rail operating companies so they can come to a negotiated settlement that can...

THE UK unemployment rate has surged to its highest level in over three years to 4.5% in the three months to August, compared with...

‘WHAT the government cannot legitimately do is to re-submit to the House the same proposition, or substantially the same proposition as that of last...

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...

MORE than half a million workers, students and youth joined the Together Alliance and pro-Palestine marches through central London to Whitehall on Saturday. The demonstrations,...

LEASEHOLDERS in the Paddington Walk development in West London have already paid nearly £3.5m in service charges for the removal of dangerous, flammable Grenfell-style...

TUC leader O’Grady has cautioned new PM Truss not to underestimate the strength of feeling among workers who have endured pay stagnation and real...

THOUSANDS of teachers, students, and supporters gathered in London yesterday on the fifth day of strikes this year, organised by the National Education Union...

AN independent panel has accused the Metropolitan Police of ‘a form of institutional corruption’ for concealing or denying failings over the unsolved murder of...

‘UNDER this Labour government, if you can work you must work,’ Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall told the House of Commons yesterday. Launching the...

‘P&O and their paymasters in Dubai are no longer capable of running a safe service and should be stripped of the licence to operate...

EIGHTEEN months after the Grenfell Inferno over 600 people turned out on the Silent March for the Grenfell victims and survivors. A delegation...

WIKILEAKS founder Julian Assange, who has been held in terrible conditions in Belmarsh Prison, is ‘in a dire state of health due to psychological...

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...

THREE quarters of a million families in London will be plunged into fuel poverty after energy bills spiral by as much as 50% in...

OVER 250 London NHS doctors, nurses and hospital workers demonstrated through the West End on Saturday, demanding a 15 per cent pay increase and...

ASLEF members working as drivers for over a dozen train operators will strike this Friday 12th May, and then again on Wednesday 31st May...

A QUARTER of a million, mainly young people, marched from Victoria Embankment to Hyde Park in London on Saturday afternoon, demanding trade union action...

FRIENDS and family, concerned members of the North Kensington community and local campaigners joined forces on Saturday evening to demand justice for El, a...

FIREFIGHTERS yesterday slammed the government and building owners as an HCLG Committee cladding survey highlighted widespread safety failings. The Housing, Communities and Local Government (HCLG)...

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

STRIKING Royal London Hospital ancillary workers rallying outside Barts Hospital in their fight for pay and improved conditions yesterday demanded that the TUC Special...

An unprecedented rise in the price of gas has sent shock waves through the UK energy market, forcing energy suppliers out of business, threatening...

‘I REPEAT that I have been repeatedly assured since these allegations emerged that there was no party and that no Covid rules were broken,’...

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...

LAUNCHING the Tory Party manifesto yesterday, Rishi Sunak attacked the sick and disabled, refugees and youth, boosted wealthy landlords, and banged the war drums...

EU ambassadors yesterday agreed to delay Brexit, but will not make a decision on a new deadline date until next Monday, just three days...

UNITE has expressed its alarm at the announcement yesterday that Barclays bank is closing a major processing centre in Leeds with nearly 800 jobs...

THE LABOUR government’s so-called refreshed NHS Workforce Plan, which essentially is to keep patients out of hospital and treat them in the community instead,...

ALEX Cruz, the author of the notorious BA ‘fire and rehire’ policy, has been sacked as chief executive and chair of British Airways with...