Written by Former labour minister Membathisi Mdladlana died on Friday morning. He was 72. ANC spokesperson Mahlengi Bhengu-Motsiri said Mdladlana had been labour minister, founding president of teachers’ union Sadtu, a former South African ambassador to Canada and high commissioner to Burundi. “All these responsibilities bestowed on him are testament to the calibre of this great son […]
Angela Rayner is among Labour Cabinet ministers opposing Rachel Reeves’s mooted “miserable” cuts to Government spending, it emerged last night. Rumours are swirling in Westminster that the Chancellor is poised to launch the biggest Budget tax raid in history. Whitehall sources suggested much of the £40bn Ms Reeves is hoping to find would come through […]
Article content Federal Labour Minister Steven MacKinnon is proposing a special mediator in contract talks at the Port of Montreal for a three-month period during which strikes and lockouts would be off the table. In a social media post on Tuesday evening, MacKinnon said union and management have until Friday night to accept or reject […]
Ministers will have to comply with tougher rules on declaring gifts as Labour closes ‘Tory freebies loophole’, MPs told Ellie Reeves, the Cabinet Office minister, has confirmed that the government will tighten the rules about the declaration of gifts given to ministers. In response to an urgent question tabled by John Glen, a shadow minister, […]
This January marked the centenary of the formation of the First Labour Government. The product of an inconclusive election the previous month, in which the Conservatives won the most seats but were unable to win a parliamentary vote of confidence, Labour was able to form a minority government with the backing of the Liberal Party. […]