Owen Smith: I’ll deliver the biggest increase in living standards in a generation
Owen Smith will today pledge to increase the minimum wage to the real living wage if he were elected…
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Corbyn calms Remain nerves with punchy TV plea to shun Brexit and protect the environment
There was no fake fur coat on this occasion and no Bentley. There was, however, another young crowd…
McDonnell considers universal basic income as Compass swings behind the flat-rate payment
John McDonnell has paved the way for Labour to adopt the Green Party policy of providing a flat…
Neal Lawson: Labour must back the universal basic income and use it as a springboard to power
There are moments in your political life when you have to pinch yourself. When John McDonnell, Labour’s Shadow Chancellor…
Corbyn calls for a new bank to kick-start era of “re-industrialisation”
Jeremy Corbyn today puts plans for a National Investment Bank at the heart of his economic strategy. The…
McDonnell: Tory “shame” over businesses which fail to pay minimum wage
John McDonnell today says a huge increase in the number of workers owed money because they have not…
Tories’ tax credits shame shows they will never understand the reality of low pay
The higher minimum wage for over-25s is welcome, but the Government’s phoney living wage won’t hide their appalling…
New living wage an “act of deception” for millions facing cuts
Millions of people are set to be worse off despite today’s rise in the minimum wage, due to…
Siobhain McDonagh: Tories’ living wage con hides the reality of low pay
A few weeks ago Iain Duncan Smith resigned because he said that the Tories don’t care about poorer…
Poor pay the price for Osborne’s failure as “national living wage” is cut
Low pay is a blight on the UK economy, denying millions of hard working Britons the dignity of…
