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RECLAIM OUR CITY FROM FAR RIGHT
ANTI-RACISM campaigners are set to “reclaim Portsmouth from the far right” today as they called for an end to the scapegoating of the “world’s most vulnerable people.” Stand Up to Racism (SUTR) Portsmouth urged everyone in the city who is sickened by...
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CALL TO ACTION ON RISING VIOLENCE OF ‘PROTO-FASCISTS’
MORE than 150 organisations including unions, charities and campaign groups have called on the government to “act immediately” over the rise in racist violence. Anti-migrant protests in Dover and Portsmouth saw masked, blackclad men from the “Patriot...
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MILIBAND STANDS GROUND
BRITAIN is proud to be leading the way in challenging the Israeli occupation of Palestine, Prime Minister Andy Burnham told MPs yesterday. Speaking in the Commons a day after Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband had announced sweeping sanctions against...
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AT LAST – LABOUR TAKES ACTION ON THE OCCUPATION
LABOUR finally got serious about tackling Israeli aggression yesterday as new Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband announced a landmark ban on trade with illegal settlements in the West Bank. He also made a government acknowledgement — “overdue,” as he...
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HEALEY’S GROWTH PLAN? JUST MORE DEREGULATION
CHANCELLOR John Healey was warned against pinning hopes for economic growth on deregulation following his first major speech since taking over the Treasury yesterday. He promised to “draw a line” under rising costs for businesses and end legal...
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‘NO BAILOUTS’ AS 4,000 JOBS FACE THE SCRAPHEAP
UNITE vowed to leave no stone unturned while 4,000 Jaguar Land Rover jobs hang in the balance as the government ruled out a bailout ahead of a crunch meeting with bosses tomorrow. Britain’s largest car manufacturer is expected to formally announce a...
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DONOR STING ROCKS ROTTEN REFORM
UNIONS crashed Reform UK’s party conference yesterday slamming the hard-right outfit for its “undeclared cronyism” after it was hit with another donations scandal. The TUC held a demonstration outside the conference in Birmingham where protesters...
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Polanski challenge a headache for PM
GREEN Party leader Zack Polanski has confirmed he is looking to fight the Holborn and St Pancras by-election in the first major political challenge to new premier Andy Burnham. His candidacy — which requires endorsement by local party members — will...
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BOND MARKETS PILE UP PRESSURE ON PM BURNHAM
BOND markets piled pressure on Prime Minister Andy Burnham yesterday as government borrowing costs rose ahead of his first Budget. The City and big business are now mobilising to discipline the new government and keep it in line with Treasury economic...
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PM BURNHAM SETS OUT VISION — BUT SKIMPS ON DETAIL
ANDY BURNHAM pledged to “bring back hope” yesterday in his first Commons address since becoming Prime Minister. Demarcating his approach from the gloom-laden approach of his predecessor, Mr Burnham was relentlessly upbeat in a message to MPs that was...
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INSOURCE NOW!
UNIONS say Labour is failing to tackle the outsourcing “scourge” as new analysis today reveals spending on private contracts has soared since it took power. The value of outsourced contracts awarded or renewed for “soft facilities” management,...
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‘MINORITIES LEFT WITH NO CHOICE BUT TO DIE’
GIVE black and brown disabled people “quality of life rather than feeling they have no choice but to die,” MPs were told yesterday after research found ethnic minorities would be more likely to opt for assisted suicide. Trade unionists, community...
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SEARCH GOES ON FOR FLOODS SURVIVORS
RESCUE teams continued the search yesterday for hundreds of missing people along the Nepal-China border after a catastrophic torrent of floods and mud swept through communities a day earlier. The disaster left at least 359 people dead and more than...
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HAMMER BLOW AS ENERGY BILLS HIT THREE-YEAR HIGH
HOUSEHOLD energy bills will hit a three-year high in yet “another nail in the coffin” for budgets after Ofgem announced a 4 per cent rise from October. The regulator confirmed yesterday that gas unit rates are set to rise from 6.29p per kWh last...
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A CAPITULATION TO LANDLORD CLASS
CAMPAIGNERS slammed Andy Burnham yesterday for betraying his own promises in “a major capitulation to the housing market and the landlord class.” The Social Housing Action Campaign (SHAC) hit back at the Prime Minister’s decision to break a prior...
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BURNHAM BLASTED FOR MISSILE APPEAL
ANDY BURNHAM was accused of “utter subservience” to the EU military-industrial complex after he urged Ukraine’s allies to provide more Patriot interceptor missiles to the wartorn country yesterday. Chairing a meeting of the “Coalition of the Willing,”...
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VULNERABLE MOST AT RISK IF ENERGY RULES WEAKENED
BRITAIN’S energy watchdog has been warned against watering down consumer protection laws despite bill disputes soaring and households facing an eye-watering 4 per cent hike this week. Ofgem was urged not to green-light proposals to replace “clear,...
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PM TOLD: BAN ISRAELI SETTLEMENT GOODS AS ANOTHER TEEN KILLED
ANDY BURNHAM was urged to act on Israel as a 17-year-old Palestinian boy, Karim Shalaldeh, was shot dead after illegal settlers entered a West Bank village yesterday. The head of the foreign affairs select committee Dame Emily Thornberry called on the...
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MILIBAND CONDEMNS E1 LAND GRAB — BUT ISRAEL PRESSES ON
WORDS are not enough against all of Israel’s “atrocities,” campaigners warned yesterday after Ed Miliband criticised Tel Aviv’s new illegal settlement plans. The Foreign Secretary said Britain would not “stand back and accept the destruction of the...
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BILLS UP BY £221 AS WAR FUELS INFLATION SURGE
PRIME MINISTER Andy Burnham faced calls to bring energy companies under public control after he blamed the US-Israeli war on Iran for inflation surging to a four-month high yesterday. Unite led calls for profiteering fossil fuel firms to be brought to...
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A NATION DIVIDED
LOWER energy use figures mask a nation divided between energy savers and energy strugglers, campaigners have warned, as new data reveals how households are responding to rising costs. Since 2023, 36 per cent of the public have taken energy efficiency...
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BURNHAM UNDER PRESSURE TO AXE ROSEBANK PLANS
PRIME MINISTER Andy Burnham was urged to stand up to profiteering fossil fuel giants and reject plans to drill Britain’s largest untapped oil field as consultations on them drew to a close yesterday. Labour faces a key environmental test as the final...
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REFORM’S £50bn WAR ON NEEDY
CAMPAIGNERS slammed Reform UK for its “complete lack of understanding” of the benefits system as the hardright party vowed to slash welfare for foreign nationals and almost three million disabled people. A Nigel Farage-led government would cut £50...
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‘STOP US BOMBERS USING OUR BASES’
WORKERS and campaigners are demanding Andy Burnham put an end to US President Donald Trump’s use of British bases for his war on Iran. Activists from around the country are to gather at RAF Fairford today to tell the new Prime Minister to break from...
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BILL-PAYERS VS BILLIONAIRES
ENERGY firms raked in an excess of £6 billion in Iran war windfall profits this year, it was revealed today as households brace for yet another bill rise at the end of the month. Campaigners said profits generated in Britain by these companies equate...
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100 YEARS OF SOLIDARITY: FROM HAVANA TO LONDON
DIPLOMATS, activists and trade unionists will rally today in London and around the world in honour of Fidel Castro’s 100th birthday. Tributes have flooded in for the Cuban revolutionary leader, who liberated his country from the Batista dictatorship...
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HEAT STRIKE
PRIME Minister Andy Burnham rejected calls to set a maximum workplace temperature by a coalition of unions and climate activists yesterday, as the Met Office predicted this summer will become Britain’s warmest on record. The Heat Strike campaign...
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£1m for water boss as Britain runs dry
CAMPAIGNERS demanded the government take back control of debt-ridden Thames Water after its “indefensible” decision to give a £1 million golden handshake to its finance chief amid likely drought conditions in large parts of the country. Britain’s...
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MILLIONS SUFFER COSTS OF GREED
THE cost of greed has left almost two million households in Britain unable afford enough food for everyone in their home and more than eight million who would be unable to cope with an emergency £850 bill, new figures suggest. Research carried out for...
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THUGS CARRY OUT A ‘RACIST POGROM’
A “RACIST pogrom” in Thetford has seen thugs storm homes they suspect of housing refugees and attack police, an anti-racist group warned yesterday. Police bracing for further violence have warned that those taking part in the disorder will face “the...
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ACT NOW OR FACE FURY OVER FILTHY RIVERS, PM TOLD
ANYTHING less than a full restructure of the water industry would be a “total insult” to the public, ministers were warned yesterday as the majority of English waters failed to meet ecological standards. Clean water campaigners and the GMB demanded PM...
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‘Hundreds’ more charities funding Israeli settlers
THE charity watchdog must go further and investigate the “hundreds more British charities” funding Israeli settlements in Palestine, campaigners said after it launched an inquiry into eight organisations yesterday. Charity Commission investigators...
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OIL PROFITS SO OBSCENE EVEN TRUMP SAYS IT IS TOO MUCH
BP profits have more than doubled as the Iran war sends prices soaring, seeing the world’s five leading oil “supermajors” rake in a total $48 billion (£35.7bn) in the second quarter of 2026. The oil giant reported its highest quarterly profits, seeing...
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BURNHAM BACKS SAFE ROUTES
ANDY BURNHAM was urged to work with the Border Force union and refugee charities yesterday after he became the first British Prime Minister to publicly back tackling Channel boat crossings by creating safe routes for migrants. The Labour leader...
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PEACE WON’T LAST WHILE US STAYS IN MID EAST
ACTIVISTS yesterday welcomed US President Donald Trump’s claims of an outline deal with Iran yesterday — but warned there can be no lasting peace in the Middle East while the US military maintains such a huge presence there. Mr Trump said yesterday...
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MAKE THEM PAY
MOST Britons believe fossil fuel companies should compensate communities after extreme weather destroys their homes or livelihoods, a poll showed yesterday. The findings were released as a Suffolk wildfire near Britain’s biggest nuclear power station...
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INVEST IN PEOPLE NOT IN WARFARE
ANDY BURNHAM was told yesterday to invest in people, not war, as he committed his government to blowing billions of pounds on nuclear weapons. The new Prime Minister visited Barrow-in-Furness to pledge his loyalty to Britain’s Trident nuclear weapons...
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PM’S PROMISE TO GRASP NETTLE ON SOCIAL CARE
ACTION to end the social care crisis must finally be taken, Prime Minister Andy Burnham pledged yesterday, announcing an outline commitment to a national care service. Continuing his run of significant early initiatives, Mr Burnham announced the...
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END 40 YEARS OF CARE NEGLECT
ANDY BURNHAM was urged yesterday to keep his vow to abandon 40 years of neoliberalism by legislating for a national care service before the end of this parliament. Health experts, campaigners and unions called on the Prime Minister to prioritise...
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SHUT DOWN THE BASES
ANTI-WAR protesters have gathered outside RAF Fairford to call on PM Andy Burnham to do the “right thing” and withdraw the use of British military bases from the US war with Iran. Demonstrators from the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) and...
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RAYNER REFUSES CAP ON RIP-OFF RENTS
ANDY BURNHAM cannot claim to be tackling the cost of living while taking one of its strongest tools off the table, renters’ rights campaigners warned yesterday as ministers ruled out rent controls. Returning Housing Secretary Angela Rayner said she...
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BUS FARES CUT — BUT BY AID RAID
CHEAPER buses but more bombs and bullets was the contradictory message yesterday from Andy Burnham as his new government struggled for definition. Maintaining his focus on the cost of living, Mr Burnham announced a £2 cap on bus fares – a move...
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CABINET FOCUS ON WAR OVER WELFARE
WE ARE a cost-of-living government, Prime Minister Andy Burnham told his new Cabinet yesterday after slashing energy bills for millions. Mr Burnham acted to cut VAT on energy bills at a cost of £850 million as his first major move in Downing Street...
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BURNHAM VOWS A NEW ERA — BUT SAME OLD RULES
ANDY BURNHAM walked into Downing Street as prime minister yesterday, pledging to introduce a new political and economic model for Britain, starting with an end to rough sleeping. He began by firing many of Sir Keir Starmer’s phalanx of right-wing...
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CHAMPION THE BEST OF OUR COUNTRY
MORE than 200 charities have urged Andy Burnham to “reject the politics of division” and forge a new path for asylum-seekers and refugees in Britain after he becomes Prime Minister today. In an open letter, they called on Sir Keir Starmer’s successor...
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I’LL TURN PAGE ON FORTY YEARS OF THATCHERISM
ANDY BURNHAM assumed the leadership of Labour yesterday with a pledge to turn the page on 40 years of neoliberalism. Mr Burnham, who will become Britain’s eighth Labour prime minister on Monday, pledged a restoration of hope and a radical reversal of...
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UN TO BURNHAM: END THE ‘STAIN OF IPP TORTURE IN BRITISH JAILS’
REDOUBLE efforts to “eradicate the stain” of preventative detentions, the government was urged yesterday as United Nations experts slammed Britain for “perpetuating serious human rights violations.” Campaigners demanded incoming PM Andy Burnham listen...
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SMEARS, TEARS & BELLYACHES
Sir Keir once again took the opportunity to peddle falsehoods about Labour under Mr Corbyn. Bitter to the end, he accused SIR KEIR STARMER bid farewell to Labour of having been found institutionally the Commons front bench yesterday antisemitic under...
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SANCTION ISRAEL NOW
SANCTION Israel now, 82 MPs and peers from nine different parties have told Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper. In a move that will test incoming premier Andy Burnham’s intentions to reset government policy towards Israel, the letter, organised by Labour...
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WINDFALL TAX NOW!
BANKING bonuses are set to hit a record £25 billion this year, sparking union calls for a windfall tax hike to fund a social energy tariff and permanently cut most people’s bills. The TUC called for the “common sense and long overdue” increase in the...
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WEATHER:
Temperatures in parts of England and Wales will continue to exceed 30°C this week, the Met Office has said. Yesterday a large part of southern England and pockets of the south Midlands were assessed to be at exceptional risk of wildfires, according to...
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UC IS NO EASY FIX IN PENSION CRISIS
INCREASING universal credit (UC) for 66-year-olds will not fix Britain’s “inadequate” pensions system, which causes people to suffer “up until and beyond retirement,” campaigners warned. A report from the work and pensions committee published today...
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MEET THE NEW BOSS – SAME AS THE OLD BOSS
ANDY BURNHAM was accused of “continuity Starmerism” yesterday as the potential prime minister pledged to back Labour’s arms build-up and backing for Nato and nuclear weapons. In his first pronouncement on foreign policy and the military build-up, Mr...
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FARAGE FIASCO AS CLAIMS MOUNT UP
NIGEL FARAGE’S desperate by-election gambit has descended into farce as his Reform party was rocked by fresh funding revelations. It emerged that the Reform boss’s £5 million donation from crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne, and other cash for...
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FARAGE FORCES BY-ELECTION TO DISTRACT FROM DODGY DONORS
REFORM boss Nigel Farage yesterday announced he was forcing a by-election in his Clacton constituency amid growing concerns about his secret multimillionaire funding. After a video address without reporters present, the hardright leader said he would...
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MINISTERS’ WAR FIXATION ‘PUTS US ALL AT RISK’
ANTI-WAR campaigners slammed ministers yesterday for “driving us all closer to annihilation,” as the government laid out plans to make military spending its “number one priority.” Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament general secretary Sophie Bolt warned...
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PA PROTESTERS HELD ON BAN ANNIVERSARY
SAVING LIVES is not terrorism, protesters chanted outside Scotland Yard yesterday as they marked one year since Palestine Action was banned as a terror group. An 84-year-old retired priest was arrested for showing her support for the proscribed...
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1,000 DAYS OF GENOCIDE
INCOMING PM Andy Burnham must finally put an end to arms sales with Israel, anti-war campaigners demanded yesterday as they marked 1,000 days of genocide in Gaza. The Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC), Stop the War Coalition (StWC) and the BDS...
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£15BN SPREE FOR MILITARY ‘COULD COST 20,000 JOBS’
LABOUR’S £15 billion increase in military spending could lead to more than 20,000 job losses, research suggested yesterday as Britain’s largest union slammed the government’s “wrong priorities.” Analysis by Transition Security Project estimated the...
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PEERS RAKE IT IN
PEERS have seen their shares in oil and gas firms soar by tens of thousands since the start of the US war on Iran as the energy price cap jumped yesterday, the Morning Star can reveal. At least seven lords and one baroness have seen their stock...
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PM GOING OUT WITH A BANG
WARFARE before welfare is Keir Starmer’s chosen legacy as the outgoing Prime Minister deluged the military with cash yesterday. The long-awaited defence investment plan boosts military spending by £15 billion, an increase of £1.5bn over the last two...
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PLAYING BY RULES WILL WRECK ANDY PLAN
ACCEPTING the fiscal rules will hinder Andy Burnham’s ability to deliver fundamental change, campaigners and unions warned the incoming PM yesterday. The PM-in-waiting revealed a decade-long plan setting out what he called a “new direction,” giving...
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‘STARMER’S WAR DRIVE TAKES JOBS AS WELL AS LIVES’
LABOUR plans to increase military spending will lead to job cuts and worsen Britain’s economic woes, analysis of official figures suggests. Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer is expected to unveil his government’s long-delayed £14.5 billion Defence...
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DUBS ROUNDS ON ‘CRUEL’ MAHMOOD
A VETERAN Labour peer and refugee from the Nazis has urged Andy Burnham to remove Shabana Mahmood as Home Secretary as her “performative cruelty” is dividing the party. Alf Dubs, who fled the Nazis as a child, said the PM-in-waiting should draw a line...
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‘BAKING BRITAIN IS FACING 10,000 HEAT DEATHS BY 2050’
UP TO 10,000 extreme heat deaths are predicted by 2050 as Britain was “built for a climate that no longer exists,” MPs have warned. The environmental audit committee urged the government to climate-proof schools, hospitals, care homes and prisons...
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Left urges Burnham to deliver REAL change
LABOUR’S left laid down the changes the government must make as Andy Burnham stands poised to become prime minister. In a statement yesterday the Socialist Campaign Group of MPs (SCG) spelt out a new programme including a wealth tax, public ownership...
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WHAT’S THE PLAN, MR BURNHAM?
BATTLE has been begun within the Labour Party over the shape and direction of the Andy Burnham government, likely to begin next month. The key issue is the direction of economic management and the extent to which the new regime will break with the...
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END OF THE KEIR SHOW
ANDY BURNHAM is on course to be Prime Minister within a few weeks after Sir Keir Starmer finally bowed to the inevitable and resigned as Labour leader yesterday. The only other declared contender to succeed the hapless Sir Keir, former health...
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WE NEED MORE THAN JUST WARM WORDS TO FIGHT FAR-RIGHT HATE
SCOTLAND’S trade union movement has demanded “more than warm words” to help communities “choose unity over hatred.” The call came in the wake of an Islamophobic machete rampage in Edinburgh that left five men injured — three of them hospitalised. The...
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IT’S TIME TO GO, SIR KEIR
NO MORE messing about — read the room and get out, the labour movement told Sir Keir Starmer yesterday after Andy Burnham’s victory in the Makerfield by-election. Mr Burnham will now call for the Prime Minister to quit in the wake of his larger than...
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US CUBA SIEGE ‘POSES NEW PANDEMIC RISK’
THE US fuel blockade on Cuba is increasing the risk of the next global pandemic, experts, campaigners and Labour MPs have warned. World-class vaccine research that produced three Covid vaccines is grinding to a halt as 20-hour blackouts continue to...
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STARMER BIDS TO BUY OFF BURNHAM
LABOUR will be plunged into a leadership contest next week despite desperate efforts by Sir Keir Starmer to buy off his main rival, Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham. The Prime Minister said he would offer Mr Burnham a big job in the cabinet if he...
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NATIONALISE DISGRACED WATER FIRM, UNIONS SAY
UNIONS, campaigners and MPs are demanding the government put an end to the uncertainty surrounding Thames Water and permanently nationalise the scandal-ridden utility. They renewed their calls to nationalise the water firm yesterday after Environment...
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A TRAVESTY OF JUSTICE
CAMPAIGNERS and MPs called on ministers to withdraw the proscription of Palestine Action following the Court of Appeal’s decision to uphold the ban, branding the decision an attack on the “very foundations of democracy.” The government won its appeal...
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