Highly skilled negotiator is motivated by ‘simple beliefs’ that unions exist to fight bad employersSharon Graham’s victory to replace Len McCluskey and become the first woman to lead Unite, one of Britain’s most powerful trade unions, may have come as …
‘It felt like political persecution’: Labour’s Apsana Begum on the trauma of her criminal trial
The MP was cleared last month of housing fraud. Finally able to speak about her ordeal, she opens up about her controlling ex-husband, the family that disowned her and her political futureWhen Apsana Begum found out she had been acquitted of housing fr…
Labour to pledge shake-up of universal credit as part of wider ‘new deal’
Shadow work and pensions secretary expected to propose taper rate reduction that will be first element of social security overhaulLabour will promise on Monday to overhaul the universal credit system by allowing low-income workers to earn more without …
Labour says PPE orders must not go to Xinjiang firms that use forced workers
Exclusive: Emily Thornberry appeals to Sajid Javid to tackle issue of forced labour in Chinese provinceLabour has written to the health secretary, Sajid Javid, urging him to ensure a new £5bn contract for NHS protective equipment including gowns and ma…
PCR Covid test firm with links to former minister accused of multiple failures
Exclusive: travellers let down by private providers are being forced to fall back on the taxpayer-funded NHS serviceCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageA Covid-19 testing company co-owned by a former Labour justice minister and …
Keir Starmer: my No 1 priority is winning elections
Labour leader says party must modernise to stand a chance of winning over votersKeir Starmer has told Labour that it has to modernise and become “the party of the next 10 or 20 years” if it is to stand a chance of winning the next election, as he vowed…
Johnson’s Tories seem to defy reality – but Labour’s ‘realistic’ politics isn’t working | Andy Beckett
Effective politics promises to change who has power, not just manage it more competentlyThe ongoing disaster in Afghanistan is only the latest fiasco to provoke fury at the unseriousness of Boris Johnson’s government. In fact, for the past 20 years Bri…
‘The hypocrisy is nauseating’: Wes Streeting on state school arts cuts
Shadow child poverty secretary wants all pupils to have access to arts education after decade of Tory cutsWes Streeting can’t claim to be his inner-city comp’s most famous alumni. That claim goes to the Hollywood actor John Boyega who, like the shadow …
Former Great Grimsby Labour MP Austin Mitchell dies aged 86
Keir Starmer leads tributes to colourful figure who represented Lincolnshire port town for 38 yearsAustin Mitchell obituaryKeir Starmer has led tributes to the former Great Grimsby MP Austin Mitchell, who has died aged 86.Mitchell was a colourful figur…
Austin Mitchell obituary
Maverick Eurosceptic Labour MP who fought hard for the fishing industry in his Great Grimsby constituencyThe Labour politician Austin Mitchell got his timing wrong. Had he entered the Commons 10 years before he did, he might have knuckled down and beco…