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P&O Ferries sacked 800 workers yesterday, with immediate effect, over a Zoom call. Those staff, which the company has said are redundant, are to be replaced by agency workers. The company blamed the move on £100m of losses incurred during…
Labour has slammed the decision by P&O Ferries to sack all of its sailing staff with immediate effect in favour of agency staff during a Zoom call on Thursday morning. Employees were reportedly told they were being made redundant with no…
I love South Yorkshire and I am proud to call it my home. I love its friendliness, its warmth, the difference between our villages, towns, and cities, our proud history and heritage, and most importantly the people. However, I don’t think…
If there is something worse than the Tories applying one rule for them and another for everyone else, it is the governing party punishing us for following said rules. From public sector wages to London’s transport settlement, this…
All of us in South Yorkshire know our transport system is broken. Journeys that take minutes by car take hours by bus, tram, or train. Our public transport network is fragmented, unreliable and far too expensive. And yet many wouldn’t even…
He may have once been the mayor of London, he even represents a London constituency, but Boris Johnson is no friend to London. The Prime Minister is trying to make Londoners pay for the pandemic through their fares and transport services…
Boris Johnson hunkered down for some more bad press yesterday. There was no shortage of outrage as ministers confirmed the scaling back of infrastructure spending in the integrated rail plan. The casualties of the rethink included Northern…
Keir Starmer has argued that the government failed "the first test of levelling up" with its integrated rail plan and accused Boris Johnson of betraying the voters in the North of England after ministers broke key infrastructure pledges. In…
Northern MP and Labour frontbencher Jim McMahon has accused the government of having "completely sold us out" as the Secretary of State for Transport confirmed a U-turn on commitments to build new high-speed lines. Addressing MPs following…
Ministers will today unveil the long-awaited integrated rail plan. They are expected to drop the eastern leg of HS2 to Leeds and downgrade plans for Northern Powerhouse Rail, which will now not go through Bradford – the seventh biggest but…
Here’s a question for Sadiq: do you want to win the next mayoral election, or at least ensure that your Labour successor does so if you choose to stand down? Well, my advice would be to drop the Silvertown Tunnel plan – as soon as possible…
Humanity is at a crossroads. Decisions made by political leaders in the coming weeks could decide the course of our planet’s future for many years to come, and as mayor of one of the world’s great cities I feel the weight of that…
