‘Key provisions in Employment Rights Act and scrapping of two-child benefit cap come into force today’
A series of flagship Labour measures have come into force today. Probably the most prominent is the scrapping…
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Gary Smith re-elected as GMB general secretary unopposed
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Starmer attempts to reassure Britons amid fears of inflation spike, but did he go far enough?
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Ben Cooper column: ‘Labour must intervene to tackle the causes of the cost of living crisis’
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