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Keir Starmer today refused to say that taxes will not rise again despite Rachel Reeves making the pledge to business. In bad-tempered clashes at PMQs, the premier insisted he was ‘not going to write the next five years of Budgets right here at this despatch box’. Tory leader Kemi Badenoch swiped that the burden would […]
By TOM KELLY INVESTIGATIONS EDITOR FOR THE DAILY MAIL Published: 23:31 GMT, 26 November 2024 | Updated: 03:47 GMT, 27 November 2024 A union boss accused of bullying and harassing women has provoked fury after writing to every Labour MP insisting they are ‘building a better workplace’. GMB general secretary Gary Smith – whose union’s […]
Tories accuse Labour of ‘pinching our ideas’ with jobs plan Helen Whately, the shadow works and pensions secretary, accused Kendall of “pinching our ideas”. Responding to Kendall’s statement in the Commons, Whatley said her government counterpart had rebranded the WorkWell programme, which was introduced under the Conservatives, “as her own connect to work scheme”. She […]
Minister squirms when confronted with Starmer’s comments on benefits fraud Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it’s investigating the financials of Elon Musk’s pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, ‘The A […]
4 Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus today said the interim government is committed to carrying out sweeping labour reforms in an effort to attract more foreign buyers to the country. The chief adviser made the comments when a big United States labour and brand delegation called on him to discuss labour issues at his office […]
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Starmer dismisses online petition calling for general election, saying it’s driven by people who never backed Labour anyway This is what Keir Starmer told ITV’s Good Morning Britain when asked about the online petition signed by 2 million people calling for an election on the grounds that “the current Labour government have gone back on […]
Gurpreet Singh Johal is sitting in a London hotel lobby the night before he is due to meet David Lammy. He recalls in his soft Scottish burr that this will be the fifth UK foreign secretary he will have seen in his quest to secure the release of his brother, Jagtar, who has been detained […]
Even for a new Labour government which has proved to be repeatedly accident-prone –adept only at scoring own goals – there was something particularly cack-handed about announcing cuts to our defence capabilities on the same day British-made Storm Shadow missiles started smashing into military bases on Russian soil. Allowing Ukraine to use longer-range US and […]
The US has banned food, metals and other imports from about 30 more Chinese companies over alleged forced labour involving the Uygurs, according to a government notice posted online on Friday. The new restrictions, covering a range of products from tomato paste and walnuts to gold and iron ore, are part of the federal government’s […]