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Let’s transform the mood around the election (Pic: Neil Terry) This general election is an opportunity to kick out the Tories and break from a decade of austerity, scapegoating of Muslims and migrants, and inaction over climate change. If the Tories lose the election on 12 December, it will be a …

Jeremy Corbyn speaking at the Labour Party conference Jeremy Corbyn has promised Labour’s election programme will be “the most radical and exciting plan for real change ever put before the British electorate”. If the policies that Labour Party members have voted for make it into the manifesto, then that might …

The 2019 election will be the first in decades where both Labour and the Conservatives promise to turn on the public spending tap. The manifestos have yet to be released, but both have already made multibillion-pound pledges as the era of austerity comes to an end. Labour’s major spending pledges …

‘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 …

Huge university strikes are set to sweep across Britain after workers voted for action in two ballots. UCU union members have voted in overwhelming numbers to stage walkouts to defend their working conditions, pay and pensions. Some 74 percent of workers across 147 universities voted to strike over pay and …

6.04pm GMT18:04 Afternoon summary Andrew Sparrow Jeremy Corbyn has challenged Johnson to TV debates on what has effectively been the first full day of campaigning since MPs agreed that there should be an election on Thursday 12 December. (See 4.06pm.) The bill approving the election is still being debated by …

Boris Johnson’s call for a general election in December is both a political and logistical gamble. Here are some potential challenges that organisers of a pre-Christmas election could face. Winter weather A carefully choreographed mid-December campaign could be wrecked by gales, heavy snow, ice and floods, ruining travel plans and …

Postal worker voted overwhelmingly for strikes (Pic: @CWUnews on Twitter) Bosses at Royal Mail are recruiting a scab workforce of thousands to try and break a coming national strike. CWU union members have discovered adverts for more than 6,000 temporary Royal Mail jobs at workplaces right around the country. The …

Postal workers used gate meetings to build support for the dispute (Pic: Guy Smallman)   Postal workers are working to build support for a possible national strike in Royal Mail following an astonishing strike vote last week. The workers’ CWU union plans “a massive public engagement exercise” to get people …

There were two important statements from the CBI on Thursday. One, as you’d expect, was a view on the new UK-EU withdrawal agreement. In short, the employer’s body welcomes anything that lessens the chances of a damaging no-deal Brexit but it warned that “big questions remain about the feasibility of …