“Sports Direct is a bad place to work” – Miliband targets “Victorian” zero hours exploitation
Ed Miliband will today give a speech at the Labour West’s Midland Regional Conference in Coventry where he will say that the “Victorian” exploitation of workers on zero hours contracts will end under Labour – and he reserves a particular rebuke for sports clothing chain Sports Direct. He will say that if elected in May, Labour government will legislate to give employees the legal right to: A regular contract if they are working regular hours. Refuse demands that they are […]
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November 14, 20144
Scottish Co-operative Party backs Boyack and Dugdale in leadership race
The Scottish Co-operative Party have announced today that they’re backing Sarah Boyack MSP to be leader and Kezia Dugdale (who is a Co-operative member) to be deputy leader in the Scottish leadership race. On this announcement, Chair of the Scottish...
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November 14, 201422
Burnham asks Farage why he’s trying to cover up Ukip’s “longstanding conviction that the NHS should be privatised”
Andy Burnham, Shadow Health Secretary, has today called on Ukip leader, Nigel Farage to answer questions about Ukip’s policy over the NHS. This is in response to a video released by the Guardian, which showed Farage saying in September 2012 that...
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November 14, 20147
Labour call on Cameron to attend nuclear weapons conference
Douglas Alexander, Shadow Foreign Secretary, and Vernon Coaker, Shadow Defence Secretary, have written an open letter calling on David Cameron to attend a conference examining the humanitarian impact of nuclear weapons, due to take place in Vienna at...
- Majority of LabourList readers back Miliband after tough week
- Farage challenges Miliband to pre-election debate
- “We can take this lot apart and it is time we did” – full text of Ed Miliband’s Senate House speech
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November 14, 201413
Unchain our charities – here’s the reality of the gagging law
By Peter Kyle
Now that Remembrance Sunday has passed I want to share with you a real example of what effect the Gagging Law, passed by the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats, has had on local charities. As it involves veterans I have waited a fortnight before sharing...
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November 14, 20140
UK Aid – a convincing case
By Ray Collins
This week we were reminded by one of the world’s leading businessmen and philanthropists that the UK Government and general public has a long and extraordinary record in terms of its support for the world’s poorest countries and communities. Support...
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November 14, 201419
How to challenge UKIP’s vision of England
By Jon Wilson
I’d love to see a head-to head debate between Ed Miliband and Nigel Farage. Forget the Tories, with their incoherent and opportunist brand of soundbite politics. Forget the LibDems, riven by their possibly terminal identity crisis. The argument...
- The election in Scotland matters to all of us
- Why we can’t, and won’t, run everything from the centre
- When governments stop funding them, art institutions end up being used as PR tools
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November 6, 201423
‘Our job is to focus’ – Miliband responds to anonymous briefings
Ed Miliband has responded to claims that a number of MPs have approached Dave Watts, Chair of the Parliamentary Labour Party (PLP), to call for Miliband to resign. Rumours suggest that there are two MPs,...
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October 21, 201418
The racist European party who will save UKIP £1m a year
Last week, UKIP’s grouping in the European Parliament was forced to dissolve after an MEP from Latvia decided to leave, meaning they no longer had members from enough countries to continue. This...
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October 15, 201415
Tory welfare minister says disabled people are “not worth” the minimum wage
Conservative welfare reform minister Lord Freud is facing calls to be sacked from the Government for saying that disabled people are “not worth the full wage”. In response to a question at...
- Labour launch new video – where the Tories admit they’re “unapologetic, unreformed Thatcherites”
- Lib Dem delegates prefer Miliband to Cameron
- “This is who we resent” – David Cameron lets slip what he actually thinks
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leslie48:
Well you cannot do it with a long drawn out contest you
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Ewan nown:
And Labour are not the Party who cause crisis and then
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Daniel Speight:
The public schools for starters;-)
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Grouchy Oldgit:
Obviously rational people seek to minimize their taxes.
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Daniel Speight:
Unless there was a complete change in the Labour electi
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