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Furious investors are preparing to fight Jeremy Corbyn’s plans to seize swathes of British businesses, arguing his nationalisation spree would be a “blatant breach of human rights” that could trigger a wave of lawsuits.  Shareholders and lawyers believe the proposals could breach international treaties and Brussels rules over state aid, and intend to fight them through …

BT has gone further to demonstrate its value to wider society by building its strategy around the restoration of its “national champion” status. There’s a bitter irony, then, that this is the moment that Labour has chosen to attack it Despite significant misgivings, a little over three years ago, I went …

Labour is expected to water down its radical environmental policy and other key pledges in the party’s election manifesto, amid concerns that they will prove undeliverable. Despite making climate change Labour’s number one priority, senior party figures have signalled that a commitment to reaching net zero carbon emissions by 2030 …

Jeremy Corbyn would increase spending more than three times faster than Gordon Brown did, with Labour’s pledges amounting to an additional splurge of £1.2 trillion over five years, according to the Chancellor. The Conservatives will on Sunday publish a dossier setting out calculations that Sajid Javid said showed the “true cost of …

SIR – Sherelle Jacobs (Comment, November 7) is quite right to say that Boris Johnson and the Conservatives need to gain a better understanding of working-class voters. Many are, or were, tribal Labour supporters, but that does not mean that they espouse the far-Left policies of today’s party. I spent the …

Okay, they could picket the polling stations, or call a general strike for December 12. But those two extreme options aside, it is hard to imagine the trade unions could find a more obvious way of influencing the upcoming General Election than calling a postal strike during the campaign. Potentially …

‘Brutality of the system’ Mr Corbyn says he met a woman from Gloucester who experienced the ‘brutality of the system’ first hand. She became a mother to a baby with Down’s syndrome in 2017 and her husband died soon after, he says. She has now been told her benefits will …

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has hailed Rutherglen MP Ged Killen’s work in trying to save high street banks and cash machines as an example of what a Labour government would strive towards achieving. Mr Corbyn was in Blantyre on Sunday as part of a two-day visit to Scotland, where he …

SIR – There has never been a greater opportunity to achieve a stonking Conservative majority. The Prime Minister has strained every sinew to get Brexit done and is rightly popular because of it. Add to that the people’s desire to rid those green benches of MPs who have done everything …

Labour’s renationalisation plans will cost at least £196bn, the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) has claimed. The party’s proposals to take water and energy utilities, train companies and the Royal Mail into public ownership would cost the equivalent of taking all income tax paid by UK citizens in a single …