9 h. ago Victims of workplace abuse will no longer be silenced by NDAs, ministers will vow

The use of NDAs to hush up staff who have suffered sexual abuse or bullying will be banned under a new addition to Angela Rayner's major expansion of workers' rights.

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10 h. ago Angela Rayner to ban businesses from using NDAs to cover up harassment and discrimination

Angela Rayner has proposed an amendment to the Employment Rights Bill

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13 h. ago Government to ban ‘appalling’ NDAs in cases of harassment and discrimination

Ministers have put forward an amendment to the Employment Rights Bill which would void NDAs linked to harassment or discrimination in the workplace.

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33 h. ago Parents who lose pregnancy before 24 weeks to be entitled to bereavement leave

Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner said the change would give ‘people time away from work to grieve’.

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35 h. ago ANGELA RAYNER: 'I know what it’s like struggling to bring up a family on low and unpredictable pay'

Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner writes for the Mirror: 'I get that people are impatient for change. That’s why our plan to Make Work Pay is so personal to me'

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35 h. ago Ban on replacing sacked staff with agency workers in fire and rehire crackdown

Deputy PM Angela Rayner tells the Mirror the Employment Rights Bill will be beefed up to stop firms exploiting a loophole on unscrupulous fire and rehire tactics

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50 h. ago Big pay days and top of the polls: Nigel Farage’s first year as an MP

In year since Reform party leader was elected at eighth attempt he has been largely absent from Commons votes and very present in the mediaNigel Farage has had one of the best years of his political career after voters finally elected him to parliament at the eighth time of asking. He is odds on to be the UK’s next prime minister, vying with Angela Rayner and Wes Streeting, with Kemi Badenoch trailing behind.Here are the key facts and numbers behind his first year in the House of Commons. Continue reading...

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58 h. ago QUENTIN LETTS: What will become of the builder who sends his labourer for two tins of tartan paint?

Angela Rayner 's monitors of workplace chit-chat have already been dubbed 'banter police' or 'banter tsars', but a different Russian word would be more accurate.

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59 h. ago Angela Rayner to put 'BANTER POLICE' in your office: Watch what you say by the water cooler! Workers' rights Bill pressures firms to spy on 'inappropriate' conversations

Under new laws drawn up, firms will be pressured into bankrolling 'diversity officers', whose jobs would include protecting staff from the content of overheard conversations.

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3 d. ago Spitting Image is BACK with Prince Harry, Donald Trump, Elon Musk and Angela Rayner in the firing line for outrageous new series

The satirical show is known for using puppets, voiced by comedians, to depict well-known figures.

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4 d. ago Former senior police officer who was found with child abuse on her phone is SUING the Met after 'witch hunt destroyed her'

Ex Superintendent Novlett Williams is now taking the force to an employment tribunal, accusing it of racial and sexual discrimination, harassment, and victimisation.

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4 d. ago Angela Rayner pays touching tribute to Diogo Jota at Anfield after Liverpool star's death

The Liverpool and Portugal striker tragically died in the early hours of Thursday morning following a car crash in northern Spain, with the Deputy Prime Minister declaring herself "absolutely devastated for his wife, his children and his family"

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4 d. ago Rural councils to get money for ‘remoteness’ cost in funding shake

Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner has announced a ‘comprehensive review’ of local government aimed at slashing red tape and reforming funding.

Economics

5 d. ago Starmer is by far the worst PM of my lifetime. But having Angela Rayner installed in No 10 would be a new order of catastrophe: STEPHEN GLOVER

Will we one day look back at Sir Keir Starmer's disastrous prime ministership with something like nostalgia?

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5 d. ago DAN HODGES: What one Cabinet minister has told me about what REALLY lies behind Reeves's public breakdown, the truth about Angela Rayner's role

We may never properly learn what finally brought Rachel Reeves to break down in tears in the House of Commons chamber yesterday.

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5 d. ago Voices: Only Angela Rayner has emerged from the welfare debacle with her reputation intact

It took the intervention of the deputy prime minister to persuade the prime minister that the game was up – now some Labour MPs are wondering if she’ll replace him, writes John Rentoul

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5 d. ago QUENTIN LETTS: Rachel Reeves looked rinsed by dejection. But Sir Keir did not acknowledge her sadness

Rachel Reeves was a picture of melancholy from the moment she entered the chamber for PMQs. She was almost the last cabinet minister to arrive - it looked briefly as if there would be no room for her.

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5 d. ago Starmer fails to guarantee chancellor’s future and does not rule out tax rises to fund welfare concessions – UK politics live

Kemi Badenoch tells PM the welfare bill is a ‘pointless waste of time’ after climbdown heads off Labour revoltWelfare bill climbdown will have ‘a cost’ at budget, says ministerOn Wednesday, Angela Rayner sought to reassure people who had been “scared” about the proposed benefits changes, reports the PA news agency.Speaking to ITV’s Lorraine, the deputy prime minister said:Anyone listening to your show today, they know that there will be no changes to their welfare.I want to make sure that people are reassured by that, because a lot of people have been scared about what’s going to happen. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Angela Rayner tells Lorraine 'not a chance I'd want to be Prime Minister'

"Parliament can look argy-bargy and like everyone is falling out, but that’s the way you get to a consensus"

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5 d. ago Rayner says Farage ‘promised the world the moon on a stick’ over Brexit

Angela Rayner has said Nigel Farage “promised the world the moon on a stick” with Brexit and Britain has not seen any of the benefits.

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