58 m. ago Labour has humane and popular plans to stand up for UK workers. Why dilute them? | Gaby Hinsliff

Angela Rayner’s employment rights bill is precisely why many voted for this government. Why be embarrassed about a defining policy?One step forward, two steps back. Angela Rayner’s employment rights bill is back in the Commons this week, stuffed with ideas for improving everyday working life: that’s the big step forward for a government that was elected on a promise of radical change. The weekend headlines, however, were all about what won’t be changing after all. The so-called right to switch off – an early Rayner idea about legislating to prevent employees being pestered by out-of-hours calls and emails, which was already presumed dead due to not being in the bill – was ritually killed off once again for the Sunday papers, with a briefing that it still won’t be in the bill after fresh amendments are tabled on Tuesday.Presumably the idea was to reassure businesses fearful of extra regulatory burdens, on top of the looming April hike in employers’ national insurance. But since it’s ...

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6 h. ago Angela Rayner rolls out £1.5billion pot to boost 75 neighbourhoods

A total of 75 areas will each receive up to £20million in funding over the next decade to help revive high streets, youth clubs, parks and libraries, the government said

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6 h. ago 'In conversation about his legacy John Prescott gave a response that’s stuck with me since'

Writing for The Mirror, Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner says she has taken inspiration from the late John Prescott as she launches a £1.5billion plan to revive neighbourhoods

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6 h. ago Local people to ‘control where Whitehall cash goes’ under neighbourhoods plans

Money will be made available from April 2025, with projects expected to be able to get up and running in 2026.

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6 h. ago Londonderry and Coleraine to benefit from UK neighbourhood fund

The north west city and town are set to receive up to £20 million each.

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32 h. ago Humiliation for Angela Rayner as her plan to give workers 'the right to switch off' faces axe

Angela Rayner's plan would have made it illegal for employers to expect their staff to be contactable outside working hours, however it has reportedly been scrapped from the worker's rights bill.

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47 h. ago Fury at neighbour's 'ludicrous' plan to rip up his lawn on residential street and replace it with a CAR WASH

Businessman Hewa Saleh, 44, sparked fury by applying to set up the seven-day-a-week commercial operation next to family homes in Middlesbrough, Teesside.

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47 h. ago Angela Rayner addresses claim government 'broke promise' to Awaab Ishak's family

The Deputy Prime Minister says the government is 'moving at pace' as it introduces a new law following an M.E.N. campaign

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66 h. ago Angela Rayner reveals she mistakenly drank whisky from bottle Keir Starmer wanted never to be opened because it was a gift from a dead friend

The Deputy Prime Minister said she had joined Sir Keir Starmer for a drink at his No 10 flat one evening when she made the calamitous mistake.

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69 h. ago Rayner reveals she mistakenly opened a bottle of whisky precious to Starmer

The Deputy Prime minister also said she and her boss’s bond had been strengthened in recent months.

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3 d. ago Angela Rayner lifts lid on life as Deputy PM from cruel trolls to friendship with King

Angela Rayner has opened up about her first few months as Deputy Prime Minister, from drinks gaffes at Downing Street to her unlikely friendship with King Charles II

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3 d. ago Angela Rayner admits son asked 'is it worth it' as she opens up on missing kids

Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner has opened up about the heartbreaking question her eldest son asked of her, and the determined response she gave in return

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3 d. ago Angela Rayner's son asked her 'is it worth it' over vile messages

Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner has opened up about the heartbreaking question her eldest son asked of her, and the determined response she gave in return

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3 d. ago Tories warn against endorsing Islamophobia definition as review group launched

The working group will be chaired by former Conservative minister Dominic Grieve KC.

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3 d. ago Angela Rayner hints at Oldham's future in Greater Manchester's huge housing plan

Oldham council agreed to write to the Deputy Prime Minister asking to withdraw from the Greater Manchester plan

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3 d. ago Angela Rayner to announce 'biggest power shift in a generation'

The Deputy Prime Minister will call her English Devolution programme the 'biggest power shift in a generation'

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4 d. ago Rayner to tout ‘power shift’ of devolution plans to leaders in the North

The Government is re-organising local authorities and bringing in new mayoral powers under its devolution plans.

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4 d. ago Beer drinking body calls for 'simple' change to save hundreds of pubs from closure

The Campaign for Real Ale has written to Deputy PM Angela Rayner to ramp-up calls for urgent action to stop a wave of pub closures

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4 d. ago Rough sleeping up by a fifth in a year, ‘shameful’ snapshot estimates show

Campaigners welcomed emergency funding but said long-term investment is needed.

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5 d. ago Hundreds of workers in Angela Rayner's housing department could strike over working just THREE days a week in the office

Angela Rayner is facing embarrassment as civil servants in her department consider going on strike.

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