British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer speaks with leaders from across the UK during the International Investment Summit on October 13, 2024 in London, England. Wpa Pool | Getty Images News | Getty Images The U.K.’s ruling Labour Party has rejected accusations by former U.S. president Donald Trump’s campaign team that the British party’s members […]
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Trump campaign files complaint against UK Labour Party for election ‘interference’ | BreakingNews.ie
Donald Trump’s presidential campaign has filed a complaint against the British Labour Party for what it claims is “interference” in the US election. A statement on DonaldJTrump.com on Tuesday night said that “The Trump-Vance Campaign has filed a Federal Election Commission (FEC) complaint against the Harris-Walz Campaign and the Labour Party of the United Kingdom […]
Prisoners have been celebrating being freed from jail in the latest round of early releases as they greet family members before driving home in flash supercars such as Lamborghinis, Rolls Royces and Bentleys. Inmates have been greeted by family members on the day that more than 1,200 who had been sentenced to more than five years […]
Former Conservative justice secretary David Gauke appointed by MoJ to lead sentencing review Good morning. Michael Howard was Conservative leader at one point, and was instrumental in ensuring that David Cameron succeeded him in that job, but perhaps he will be best remembered for his time as home secretary in the 1990s, when he gave […]
Labour gave us Sure Start to tackle child poverty. Now it should hike tax to keep it | Polly Toynbee
As the budget approaches, outrage from the Tories and their media outriders at any mention of proposed tax rises is reaching boiling point. Never a word of what they would do about collapsing public services. Misleading claims about what the well-off pay already (no, the top 1% doesn’t pay a third of all tax) and […]
Article content A push by the federal labour minister to reset relations in a labour standoff at the Port of Montreal has come to naught, as a partial strike drags on. In a social media post on Monday evening, Steven MacKinnon said dockworkers and their employers failed to find consensus after he proposed a three-month […]
Streeting revives claims that some patients facing avoidable ‘death sentence’ due to current NHS failings Wes Streeting, the health secretary, has revived claims that some patients are receiving a “death sentence” because of the problems with the NHS. Speaking at a health centre in east London, where he was launching the consultation on the future […]
Article content A leading figure among unionized childcare workers, Valérie Grenon, president of the Fédération des intervenantes en petite enfance (FIPEQ), is stepping down from her position. The CSQ-affiliated union represents 9,000 workers in family daycares and 3,000 in Quebec’s Centres de la petite enfance (CPEs). Grenon is leaving in the midst of negotiations that […]
Clement Attlee with John F. Kennedy in 1961. The UK General Election held in July 2024 was a truly historic event, with Labour returning to office after more than a decade in opposition. The fact that Labour did so with such a massive majority means that they have a strong mandate to transform Britain into […]