A BORDER poll could be held as a result of ongoing disputes over Brexit, the Shadow Chancellor told a debate in west Belfast last night. Labour MP John McDonnell said the possibility of a poll needs to be debated, including within his own party, because Brexit has changed wider political …
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Public spending increased by an average of 1.1 per cent a year during her premiership, while, faced with the proposed sale of Royal Mail, the prime … Source link
Read More »Labour vows to stop outsourcing ‘rip-off’ by ensuring councils take back local services
Rubbish collection, cleaning and school dinner services will be taken back by local councils, under Labour plans to stop taxpayers being “ripped off” by private firms. The party has pledged to reverse four decades of outsourcing in local government, blaming it for “scandals” such as the collapse of Carillion at a …
Read More »Labour pledges to push councils into taking back local services | Politics
Councils will be expected to take rubbish collection, cleaning and school dinner provision back in-house under plans to reverse four decades of outsourcing to be announced by the Labour party today . In the biggest shake-up of local government since the Margaret Thatcher-inspired reforms of the 1980s, a future Jeremy …
Read More »Gerald Shamash: The legal aid lawyer who saved Corbyn from electoral defeat | Society
Gerald Shamash has already saved Jeremy Corbyn from electoral defeat. The solicitor’s late-night dash to the Royal Mail sorting office, armed with a judge’s order, prevented delivery of politically damaging – and inaccurate – leaflets. That was 1983, the year the Labour leader was first elected to parliament for Islington …
Read More »Up Helly Aa stamp, cuts to lifeline services, women’s aid look for a treasurer and creativity camp
LERWICK Up Helly Aa has been immortalised in a new set of Royal Mail collectible stamps. The fire festival features in a set of eight stamps called Curious Customs, which shines a light on some of the UK’s more unusual events. Up Helly Aa is joined in the collection by …
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