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Influential City investors have written to the chief executives of companies including Royal Mail, British Airways and JD Sports urging them to pay their workers a real living wage. The letter calls on businesses to seek accreditation from the Living Wage Foundation, which makes sure companies pay employees and contractors …

Royal Mail is letting children write to Santa this year, with the chance of receiving a letter back from Reindeerland. Kids can send their letters or cards directly to Santa, letting him know their special wishes for Christmas. Children can write a letter or card to Santa to get a …

Jo Swinson, the Liberal Democrat leader, has won a court order forcing the Scottish National party to withdraw an election leaflet that accuses her of hypocrisy over fracking. Lord Pentland, a civil judge sitting in the court of session in Edinburgh, ruled the Royal Mail should no longer circulate the …

This is beginning to look like an election the Conservatives should not lose. The party has gradually squeezed the life out of Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party. As many as two-thirds of those who voted Leave are now backing Boris Johnson and his Brexit deal. That has given the party a …

Some elections are a clash of ideas, others a personality contest. The 2019 general election is shaping up to be a process story. Mountains of newsprint and swathes of commentary taken up with questions over the result. Will there be a hung parliament? Which parties could do deals with each …

The water companies are failing and so is Royal Mail. He finishes the interview by saying he is “determined to win it and looking forward to winning it … Source link

The government has been accused of exploiting migrants for profit and leaving them in legal limbo after its visa application services were outsourced to private firms. The Immigration Law Practitioners’ Association (ILPA) says that those seeking to work or settle in the UK are being pressed into paying premium rates …

The Duchess of Sussex has accused a tabloid newspaper of publishing lies, including claims she bought a £5,000 copper bath and spent £500,000 on sound-proofing her Windsor home. Documents lodged at the High Court are said to accuse The Mail on Sunday of exploiting her father, Thomas Markle, and making …

Over the two-day hearing, the union argued there was no evidence of interference with the ballot and that the “legitimate partisan campaigning” for the “yes vote” was in line with the rules. However, Mr Justice Swift, who chaired the hearing, said that strike action risked the “delay or non-delivery” of electoral material produced …

The Royal Mail has won a High Court battle to block what would have been the first national postal strike in a decade. The Communication Workers Union (CWU), who called the Christmas strike, condemed the injunction as an “utter outrage”. The union said it would appeal against the decision after …