3 h. ago How a prisoner is being wrongly freed every TWO days under Labour

Since Keir Starmer took power 18 months ago, 302 inmates have been erroneously released. Violent and sex offenders are among the catalogue of criminals mistakenly let go as well as thieves.

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41 h. ago Man Utd star Casemiro set 'to be paid £240,000' as agreement finally reached in court

Casemiro will receive £247,000 from his former club Sao Paulo after a long-standing labour dispute over employment-related payments from his academy days was resolved this week.

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5 d. ago POLL OF THE DAY: Keir Starmer claims there was 'no misleading' in Labour's Budget

Keir Starmer insisted the Chancellor did not mislead the public in the run up to the Budget, adding that at one point he too had thought they would need to breach election pledges to hike taxes.

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5 d. ago Angela Rayner ally hints she could wade in on workers' rights amid Labour backlash at Starmer for ditching 'day one' unfair dismissal

Angela Rayner has so far maintained a public silence after plans to give workers the rights to sue for unfair dismissal from 'day one' were abruptly ditched last week.

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7 d. ago Starmer facing fury of left again as he is accused of breaching another Labour manifesto promise by ditching Rayner's day one rights for workers

Sir Keir Starmer is once more at war with the left after ditching a key part of Angela Rayner 's workers' rights bonanza.

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8 d. ago Starmer faces Labour revolt over axing ‘day one’ workers’ rights reforms in manifesto breach

Fury among Labour backbenchersas announcement comes day after Government accused of another manifesto breach over Budget tax rises for working people

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1 week ago Retired judge urges £20 tax on kitchen knives in Rachel Reeves Budget

Former circuit judge Nic Madge issued the call two days before the Labour Government's Budget.

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2 w. ago SNP politicians must be held to account for their covid pandemic failures

Writing in the Daily Record, Labour MSP Jackie Baillie says it is "judgement day" for the SNP Government.

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2 w. ago Starmer’s squandering of a historic election victory is a tragedy nearing its finale | Rafael Behr

The tactics that gave Labour its huge majority in 2024 were no preparation for government – and the prime minister has proved he has nothing more to offerThe mood among Labour MPs these days follows Edgar’s law. This states that the scale of any misfortune can only be measured against unknown future disasters. As Shakespeare has the banished son of the blinded Earl of Gloucester say in King Lear: “The worst is not, so long as we can say ‘this is the worst’.”According to Edgar’s law, there is no opinion poll so gloomy for Labour that it can’t be followed by one even bleaker; no fiscal forecast so bad that the Treasury can’t aggravate it with contradictory signals on tax; no misgivings about Keir Starmer that can’t be amplified by malevolent briefing about a leadership challenge; no social policy so nauseating to the party faithful that it can’t be made grosser still with a relish of cruelty.Rafael Behr is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...

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2 w. ago POLL OF THE DAY: Are Labour right to offer asylum seekers more than £3,000 to leave Britain?

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood unveiled a series of controversial asylum reforms yesterday, which came under fire from many within her own party.

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2 w. ago Elections could last for DAYS and ballot boxes 'might go on tours of schools' as Labour desperately tries to drum up support from young voters

The Government is mulling proposals to 'modernise' elections and several councils will take part in a pilot programme of voting reforms at next May's local elections .

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3 w. ago Crippling resident doctors walkout set to send number of working days lost to strike action under Labour surging past 750,000 despite string of inflation

Analysis of official figures shows that between July 2024, when Labour won the election, and September this year, 684,000 working days were wiped out because of strikes.

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3 w. ago Future Boy by Michael J Fox review – secrets from the set of a definitive 80s movie

The actor’s account of his big Hollywood break – and how it almost never happenedMichael J Fox has already eked out four books of Hollywood memoir, so the justification for a fifth – written with longtime collaborator Nelle Fortenberry – ought to be good. It is: the subject of these 176 pages is a three-month period in 1985 when Fox was simultaneously shooting his breakout sitcom role in Family Ties and the career-defining American classic, Back to the Future.That’s two more-than-full-time jobs for one little guy, necessitating that the then 23-year-old actor work 20-hour days, six days a week. This schedule was only possible because the mid-1980s was a time before showbiz labour laws caught up with basic human decency. These days, we’re told, a standard contract “demands two weeks of buffer time on either side of a job”, while Fox didn’t even get an hour. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago David Lammy under new pressure after prisoner wrongly freed from jail commits NEW crime, as Tories warn 'public are being put at risk'

The unnamed 34-year-old offender was let out of jail by mistake on Monday last week and later arrested for stalking a woman.

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3 w. ago Keir Starmer shamed as 10m people see video of broken promises to nuke veterans

On Remembrance Day, more than 10m people have seen a viral video of Labour's broken promises to Britain's nuclear heroes

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3 w. ago POLL OF THE DAY: Has Keir Starmer lost control of the Labour Party?

According to a No 10 source, the premier was opposed to introducing a mansion tax in the Budget but has been ignored.

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3 w. ago Five inmates are being wrongly freed from Britain's prisons every week as ex

Vanessa Frake-Harris MBE told the Mail that Labour's early release scheme had made sentence calculations a 'minefield' and 'doubled the workload' for staff.

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3 w. ago POLL OF THE DAY: Has Keir Starmer lost control of of the Labour Party?

According to a No10 source, the premier was opposed to introducing a mansion tax in the Budget but has been ignored.

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4 w. ago Probation Service being 'set up to fail' under Labour soft justice bill, warn Lords

The Probation Service is being 'set up to fail' under Labour's soft justice bill raising fears about monitoring of violent criminals set loose on the streets, Lords warned today.

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4 w. ago Lammy speaking to ‘best of his knowledge’ on prisoner release error – Starmer

Sir Keir Starmer said his deputy could ‘speak for himself’ on questions around whether a prisoner was wrongfully freed before new checks were imposed.

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