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Inner London Crown Court will close next week due to a strike by criminal barristers over legal aid funding. A judge at the court today warned jurors that they will not be sitting next Tuesday as several days of walkouts begin along with a refusal to take on new cases. …

Trade unions are threatening walkouts by teachers, NHS staff, barristers and postmen this summer. They are balloting up to 1.5million workers over strike action on a level not seen since the Winter of Discontent in the late 1970s. Sir Keir Starmer yesterday again failed to condemn rail strikes that will …

S ir Keir Starmer has faced union demands to stick with Jeremy Corbyn-era policies to nationalise key industries. The Labour leader should not make “timid tweaks” to the system and instead aim for “deep and transformative change”, according to a motion moved at the party’s conference in Brighton The Communication …

Sir Keir Starmer tonight called for a second national lockdown to start immediately as the Labour Party claimed vindication for calling for a ‘circuit-breaker’ two weeks ago. The Labour leader also indicated that his Party will back the Government in a vote on a new England-wide lockdown due to take place in …

What is the difference between Tier One and Tier Two?  TIER ONE  Normal social distancing should be followed. Face masks on public transport and in shops etc. Rule of Six on gatherings indoors and outdoors, and 10pm curfew on pubs.   TIER TWO The Tier One rules still apply.  In addition, …

China: MPs demand economic policy change MPs have demanded that Britain reconsider its economic relationship with China. Sir Iain Duncan Smith said:  “We run to China to buy goods and to invest, it is time for us now to review every single programme here in the UK and around the free …

Labour leadership candidate Emily Thornberry has denied “sneering” at Brexit voters. The shadow foreign secretary was confronted in a TV interview with Andrew Neil with a video in which she appeared to laugh as a fellow Labour frontbencher said that people who did not hate Brexit “have something wrong with …

Labour leadership hopefuls and their supporters are wooing union executive members as they seek to make the final ballot which will decide who will lead the party. Representatives of the five remaining candidates – Rebecca Long-Bailey, Lisa Nandy, Sir Keir Starmer, Emily Thornberry and Jess Phillips – have approached general …

One of the many surprising features about Jeremy Corbyn’s election as Labour leader in 2015 was that he managed to get chosen by a party that is overwhelming in favour of EU membership despite, for most of his career, being in favour of the UK being out. Corbyn accepted remain …

  Corbyn tries to unite Labour Party to solve Brexit crisis for ruling class By Thomas Scripps 21 September 2019 The Labour Party conference beginning Saturday will be dominated by the conflict over the party’s Brexit policy. At least 81 motions have been submitted by local branches calling on the …