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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 …

Royal Mail is advising its customers to ‘beat the festive rush’ and get letters and parcels sent before the final posting dates. Christmas time at Royal Mail is sure to be the busiest time of the year, and the company wants to make sure all festive cards and letters are …

Royal Mail’s procedures state employees cannot open their mail at delivery offices without the prior authorisation of their manager.   It comes after Conservative MPs warned that any major disruption to postal voting may increase Labour’s chances of electoral success and leave the final election result open to legal challenge.  Studies …

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 …