Keir Starmer lands with a bump
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Unite chief: “I’ve seen zilch on Labour’s green prosperity plan”
At this week’s TUC conference, Sharon Graham and other union leaders reflected the split in the left over net zero.
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Trade union militancy will outlast the Tories
At the TUC conference in Liverpool, the gap between what the unions want and what Labour is offering is glaring.
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Keir Starmer’s non-stop Blairisms
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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Labour still needs the unions
Angela Rayner’s lead on workers’ rights is keeping organised labour behind the party – for now.
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Insult teaching unions, Gavin Williamson, and you attack all teachers
Doesn’t he know we unionise precisely because of the dire conditions he created for schools?
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Are trade unions facing their own #MeToo moment?
A shocking report into the TSSA exposes the misogyny and harassment endured by women in the labour movement.
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Is Mick Lynch in trouble?
The leader of the RMT union seemed rattled on the Today programme this morning.
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Mick Lynch: “Starmer’s Labour could be another version of the Tories”
The RMT general secretary on the case for strikes, the war in Ukraine and why he backed Brexit.
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Why is Wes Streeting challenging the BMA?
The shadow health secretary is trying to find a middle ground on the NHS.
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PayPal vs Toby Young isn’t about free speech – it’s about the free market
If a bakery doesn’t have to bake a gay cake, why can’t PayPal withhold its services from someone spreading vaccine…
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Labour must “face reality” on the energy crisis and back fracking, says GMB boss
The leader of one of the most powerful trade unions has urged the party to abandon “bourgeois environmentalism”.
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US rail workers get closer to a deal, and what they deserve
Interventions by Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden helped avert strike action, and an economic crisis.
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Sam Tarry: Starmer’s position on public sector pay “will totally break down”
The sacked shadow transport minister warns that the Labour leadership is making “catastrophic errors” by “creating a punch-up with our…
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Why Labour can’t afford to lose the trade unions
They have contributed 58 per cent of the party’s donations and loans so far this year.
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Mick Lynch is winning the media war over rail strikes
By calmly exposing the absurdities of TV interviewers, the RMT general secretary has won the public over.
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Keir Starmer’s sacking of Sam Tarry threatens a new Labour civil war
The Labour leader’s decision to fire the shadow transport minister for joining a rail picket line has enraged trade unions…
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In the sleek, luxurious world of athleisure, aspiration hides something much darker
Brands that sanitise their image with New Age jargon have been getting away with hypocrisy for too long.
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Boris Johnson is struggling to shift the blame for a summer of strikes
Taking a firm stance on Ukraine at the G7 summit won’t save the Prime Minister from mounting difficulties at home.
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London Underground staff are out on strike. It is perhaps fitting, in the week when the Blitz began in the…
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