British Politics

LEN McCLUSKEY, General Secretary of the Unite trade union, has given his full support to a government campaign to raise awareness of the minimum wage – but he has warned that sanctions on employers who are found out breaking the ...

THE LABOUR PARTY has launched a public consultation over its “industrial strategy” – in other words, its policy on how to run the economy, which will form the basis of its next manifesto and campaigning up to the 2020 General ...

CLIVE LEWIS MP, Labour’s Shadow Business Secretary, has called for the creation of more useful jobs for ordinary people – while condemning business leaders who continue to pay themselves stratospheric salaries. Lewis was speaking out after The High Pay Centre ...

LABOUR SHADOW Secretary of State for Women and Equalities, Sarah Champion MP, has called for the Government to tackle the underlying long term causes of the pay gap. She was speaking after the Resolution Foundation revealed that young women entering ...

JEREMY CORBYN’S critics continue to undermine him in their attempt to win back the Labour Party to the policies which lost the Party the last two General Elections. Although Corbyn has now won two all-member votes, in the summers of 2015 ...

The Tories are still obsessed with the myth that electoral fraud is rife in areas with a high number of black and Asian voters. As Tower Hamlets has shown time and again, the number of stories about possible or pretend ...

The UK economy’s report card for 2016 reads “has made some progress, but could do better”. It has done well in terms of stock market performance and house prices – but these measures do not guarantee long term security or ...

Labour Cllr Khales Uddin Ahmed has been suspended from the Labour Party. ELN understands that this follows allegations made by a number of his Labour Councillor colleagues. Cllr Khales has been serving as the Speaker of the Council, where Labour ...

Labour’s Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions has slated government handling of the economy, following news that unemployment rose by 10,000 in the quarter up to August 2016. Although the official Office for National Statistics (ONS), downplayed in ...

Today’s official figures from the Office of National Statistics (ONS) show that the annual rate of inflation has nearly doubled – up from 0.6% in August to a full 1.0% in September. This increase in the Consumer Prices Index (CPI) ...