Ed Miliband hardens criteria for Syria strike – Media roundup: September 3rd 2013
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Minimum Wage
The Minimum Wage – where are we 15 years on?
For many in the Labour movement, July 31st, 1998, isn’t a memorable date: it’s no 1900 ‘Khaki election’,…
Senior London Tory calls for “Minimum Wage holiday”
A senior London Tory has called for a Minimum Wage “holiday” for small businesses. That’s despite the IFS…
The depressing reality of the Minimum Wage – it’s already being cut
Earlier this week I wrote about Tory plans to slash the minimum wage or cut it (in real…
The Tories would cut the minimum wage – we’ll raise it
In the flurry of benefit-bashing and blows to the welfare state unleashed by the Tory-led Government over the…
Exclusive: Poll shows public want Living Wage to be the legal minimum – even if it costs jobs
The Living Wage has been one of the key tenets of Ed Miliband’s leadership of the Labour Party,…
Just boosting the Minimum Wage handicaps efforts to end poverty pay
Driving above 70 miles per hour. Selling cigarettes, brought abroad in a lower sales-tax jurisdiction, to friends at…
The Living Wage is a good idea – but we could, and should, do more
I’m on my way to Islington this morning to hear Ed Miliband return to a subject that is…
Young workers – undermined
I am not aware of petrol stations offering a discount on a tank of fuel to the under-21s.…
