Why is Labour getting bolder on Europe? It knows even leave voters can now see the benefits | Gaby Hinsliff

found 2025 › Apr › 29 (Tue) @ 05:45 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

With Labour losing votes to pro-European parties, an intriguing new deep-dive makes clear that the public mood has shifted

It’s nearly nine years now since Britain lost its collective mind.

More than e…

Labour v Reform UK: on the road in Runcorn – podcast

found 2025 › Apr › 29 (Tue) @ 02:45 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

Helen Pidd heads to the industrial town before this week’s byelection. How will Labour fare in its first big electoral test since taking power? Kiran Stacey reports

Runcorn, a town in Cheshire, has no…

Tory fury as Labour's asylum block on foreign sex offenders leaves human rights loophole

found 2025 › Apr › 29 (Tue) @ 02:10 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper (pcitured) announced that attackers who commit 'appalling' sex crimes will no longer be eligible for protection here under the Refugee Convention.

Now Labour is facing a summer of discontent: Nurses, teachers and council staff issue strike threats as Tories say Rachel Reeves is soft on unions

found 2025 › Apr › 28 (Mon) @ 23:45 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

The Chancellor put the Government on a collision course with unions by warning that any inflation-busting rises would have to be funded by cuts to services.

RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: Labour's lying to us about migration. They're planning to flood the country with EU 'youths' and it's freedom of movement by the front door

found 2025 › Apr › 28 (Mon) @ 16:25 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

Surkeir Starmer says he's going to get tough on immigration. No, he isn't. Back in February, Pixie Balls-Cooper said the government had zero interest in signing up to a 'youth mobility' scheme.

No10 hints at more spending cuts to fund bigger splurge on public sector pay - with unions threatening strikes unless Labour improves offer

found 2025 › Apr › 28 (Mon) @ 12:10 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

Pay review bodies have recommended 4 per cent for teachers and 3 per cent for NHS workers - significantly more than the 2.8 per cent the government has proposed.

Ed Miliband's GB Energy project is branded a 'betrayal' by Labour's trade union backers over 'bonkers' curbs on North Sea oil and gas

found 2025 › Apr › 28 (Mon) @ 10:20 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

Gary Smith, general secretary of the GMB Union, said it was 'bonkers' and 'absolute madness' to be cutting off investment into North Sea oil and gas.

Tories 'face losing 500 seats' in Reform local elections surge as Keir Starmer 'stays away' from Runcorn by-election after Labour suffers worst poll plunge EVER for a new government

found 2025 › Apr › 28 (Mon) @ 09:45 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

Tension is building ahead of the crucial votes on Thursday, with Reform expected to make sweeping gains.

ROSS CLARK: As Labour creates 27 new quangos in eight months... How quangocracy rakes in the cash

found 2025 › Apr › 28 (Mon) @ 00:10 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

Is there anything more dishonest than repeated government promises to pare back the quangos? Two months ago, this doomed process began yet again.

ANDREW PIERCE: Is hotel inquiry key to Watson's attack on union?

found 2025 › Apr › 28 (Mon) @ 00:10 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

Before Watson became deputy leader - when Jeremy Corbyn was Labour boss - he pocketed £100,000 from Unite to support his political work.