Politics

Union goliath Len McCluskey has laid into Labour MPs who, in his opinion, used the anti-Semitism row to attack Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership. Mr McCluskey accused MPs Chris Leslie, Neil Coyle, John Woodcock, Wes Streeting and Ian Austin of "polluting" Mr Corbyn's bid to tackle the problem within the party. He told the New Statesman "I look with disgust at the behaviour of the Corbyn-hater MPs who join forces with the most reactionary elements of the media establishment and I understand...

EU nationals invited to test the new Settled Status app have revealed their despair after finding it doesn't work on iPhones. Home Office officials yesterday confirmed that the mobile phone app for EU nationals seeking to stay in the UK after Brexit – claimed to be as user-friendly as “an online account at LK Bennett” by Amber Rudd – will not work on devices used by more than half of the adult population in the UK. One said the Home office...

GMB has called the Government out over a Minister’s broken promise on the Cammell Laird miscarriage of justice. A total of 37 Cammell Laird shipyard workers were caged in 1984 after taking official strike action over job losses. They were thrown in a high security category A jail - normally reserved for violent criminals and murderers - for 30 days and were then sacked, losing all their redundancy payments and pension rights. Official documents relating to the severity of their...

The government has launched a recruitment drive for nurses in the Caribbean despite ongoing concerns over the treatment of the Windrush generation. Nurses from Jamaica are to be targeted as potential recruits for the health service, the government has revealed, in its latest move to try and help mitigate the UK’s nursing recruitment crisis by looking overseas. It shows hallmarks of the years following the Second World War, when the British government began to encourage mass immigration from the countries of...

The charity industry in London is "in crisis" and "at tipping point" according to a damning new report that reveals there has been a surge in demand for services from the capital’s disadvantaged and marginalised communities. City Bridge Trust, the City of London Corporation’s charitable funder and the capital’s biggest independent grant maker, revealed many in the capital are facing widespread inequality, poverty and disadvantage. The research found that there is an opportunity for all charity funders, in a time of...

Today’s scandalous figures are more proof Theresa May’s Government has completely and utterly failed to tackle insecure work GMB union has criticised the Government after new figures released today showed the number of zero hours contracts creeping up to 2 million. Data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) this morning show the number of zero hours contracts estimated to be in circulation in the economy rose to 1.8 million in November 2017 - up from 1.7 million a year...

The majority of Brits would vote to remain in the EU if another referendum were held next week. A major UK-wide survey of more than 200,000 people revealed that a significant majority want the UK to stay in the European single market and believe Britain will be economically worse off outside the EU. The findings come as Prime Minister Theresa May faces growing pressure to concede on her so-called Brexit "red lines" of leaving the single market and customs union. Almost...

Video footage of a speech given by Jeremy Corbyn in the House of Commons has been revealed after Theresa May's heartless statement on immigrants that was made on the same day went viral. Speaking in parliament in October 2013 the then Home Secretary May said "we can deport first and hear appeals later" in relation to immigration to Britain. She said: "There are some who seem to think that the right to family life should always take precedence over public interest...

Coalition head of civil service says Theresa May's anti-immigration policies were 'reminiscent of Nazi Germany' for Tory colleagues Jeremy Corbyn blames Theresa May for "hostile environment", saying her government is "both callous and incompetent" Theresa May says decision to dispose of Windrush 'registration slips' when she was Home Secretary was taken by Labour in 2009 Half an hour later her spokesman backtracks, says it was an "operational decision" by UK Border Agency Michael Gove claims UK is "the most immigration friendly...