21+ hour, 11+ min ago   (168+ words) TUC general secretary Paul Nowak rejected comparisons between billionaire donations to Reform UK and trade union funding of Labour today. Mr Nowak said there is a “world of difference” between “a care worker or someone working in a car plant…...

19+ hour, 51+ min ago   (1322+ words) UNIONS will agree on the best economic roadmap for Britain at TUC Congress on Monday, piling pressure on Prime Minister Andy Burnham to introduce wealth taxes and reject “baseless myths” over an upcoming zero-hour contracts ban. Speaking to the Morning…...

21+ hour, 11+ min ago   (315+ words) BRITAIN’S housing crisis cannot be solved by taking solutions off the table, campaigners told Angela Rayner after she admitted there was only a “slim chance” of meeting the government’s 1.5m homes target. The Housing Secretary acknowledged today that the flagship manifesto…...

22+ hour, 27+ min ago   (434+ words) THE record-breaking sums donated to Reform UK by two super-rich cryptocurrency speculators make it urgent to develop a mass-appeal politics of the millions, not the millionaires. The gap between Burnham’s stated project — correcting a wrong course he says Britain has…...

3+ day, 19+ hour ago   (419+ words) CAMDEN Council leader Sagal Abdi-Wali has been chosen as the Labour candidate for the Holborn and St Pancras by-election. She will seek to defend the seat abandoned by former premier Sir Keir Starmer, in spite of his promises to serve…...

3+ day, 21+ hour ago   (435+ words) DISSENT is mounting among British Jews over leading communal organisations and figures who have attacked the government’s sanctions on illegal settlements in the Palestinian territories. Several organisations and senior rabbis have come out in support of the measures announced by…...

4+ day, 20+ hour ago   (518+ words) THE furious reaction from Israel and its British supporters shows how significant the penalties announced by Ed Miliband this week really are. They also demonstrate the hypocrisy of right-wing politicians who continue to mouth support for a “two-state solution” while…...

4+ day, 23+ hour ago   (404+ words) Hundreds of men wearing balaclavas and dressed in black tried to block migrants from being transported for processing until 3am when the police removed them. Despite witnesses saying two police car windscreens were smashed, no arrests were made during the racist…...

5+ day, 21+ hour ago   (909+ words) LABOUR finally got serious about tackling Israeli aggression today as new Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband announced a landmark ban on trade with illegal settlements in the West Bank. He also made a government acknowledgement — “overdue,” as he conceded — that Israel’s…...

5+ day, 21+ hour ago   (465+ words) DEFENCE Secretary Wes Streeting was branded “delusional” after saying Moscow must understand that Britain “won’t flinch” in its support to Ukraine. The minister made the claims after he co-chaired his first meeting of a group of allies providing military kit…...