63 h. ago Reform council complains Labour is being TOO TOUGH on migrant workers warning clampdown on care sector could see vital staff 'going home'

Kent County Council leader Linden Kemkaran has written to Home Secretary Yvette Cooper about a new law cutting the number of care worker visas.

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3 d. ago Reform wants to cut council diversity roles. The problem is there are already barely any

Exclusive: Party talks up sums that can be saved by cutting DEI jobs, but there are only a handful of such roles across the 10 councils it runsCouncils run by Reform UK have an average of fewer than 0.5 diversity and equality roles each, it has emerged, calling into question the party’s stated aim to save significant sums of money by cutting such jobs.According to freedom of information requests, across the 10 Reform-run English councils there was a combined 4.56 full-time equivalent (FTE) jobs connected to equality and diversity, not including roles required by law such as those for inclusion in education, including for pupils with disabilities. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Proof work DOESN'T pay under Starmer's Labour: Sickness benefits to be worth £2,500 MORE than a minimum wage job

Earnings of the unemployed who claim ill health payments will overtake those of workers on the national living wage next year, warns a think tank.

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7 d. ago Now UN panel wades into Labour's benefits civil war complaining reforms will boost poverty as Starmer faces demands for MORE concession

The UN's High Commissioner for Human Rights has written to the government demanding more information on the impact of the overhaul.

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8 d. ago Reform UK targets ‘broken’ system of council funding for special needs

Party has set up cost-cutting unit modelled on Elon Musk’s controversial US outfit

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8 d. ago US supreme court clears way for Trump officials to resume mass government firings

Justices lift lower court order that froze ‘reductions in force’ federal layoffs while litigation in case proceededThe US supreme court has cleared the way for Donald Trump’s administration to resume plans for mass firings of federal workers that critics warn could threaten critical government services.Extending a winning streak for the US president, the justices on Tuesday lifted a lower court order that had frozen sweeping federal layoffs known as “reductions in force” while litigation in the case proceeds. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Trump says ‘no amnesty’ for migrant farm workers after industry warns of disruption to food supply

Roughly 42 percent of farm workers didn’t have legal status between 2020 and 2022

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9 d. ago Reform councillors were ‘shocked’ that they won their seats, says Farage

Nigel Farage puts a Reform-led council’s ‘slow start’ down to his party being a ‘rethink’ on local government.

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9 d. ago Nigel Farage says he ‘can’t apologise’ for lack of MP vetting in general election

Nigel Farage told Reform UK councillors ‘how we behave matters’ during a visit to Kent County Council in the wake of James McMurdock allegations.

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1 week ago Reform UK run council removes all trans books from children’s library section

Kent County Council leader claims removing ‘trans material’ from shelves is ‘victory for common sense in Kent’

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1 week ago Fact check: Reform was largest party in Warwickshire local elections

Reform won around 40% of the seats on the council with just over 30% of the vote.

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1 week ago German business warns army draft would deepen worker shortage

Introduction of military service would make it harder for companies to recruit workers

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1 week ago Home Office doesn’t know how many migrants overstay skilled worker visas, MPs warn

An inquiry has revealed that data on whether someone left the UK after their visa expired was not collected by the government

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1 week ago Home Office unaware how many might have overstayed skilled worker visa, MPs warn

The Public Accounts Committee said the Home Office had not analysed exit checks since the skilled worker visa route was introduced in 2020.

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1 week ago Home Office 'does not know' how many foreign workers stay in Britain to work illegally after visas expire, MPs warn

The Home Office fails to collect 'basic information' on foreign workers including whether they carry on working illegally in the UK at the end of their visas, Commons' Public Accounts Committee says.

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2 w. ago Millions of workers 'face working until 74' in new state pension warning

Your state pension age is the earliest age you can start claiming your state pension - it is currently set at 66, but a new report is saying this should rise to 74

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2 w. ago Trump threatened tough punishment for employers who hired migrant workers. So far only a handful have faced the wrath

The Trump administration has promised to ‘flood the zone’ and conduct unprecedented enforcement actions against businesses employing undocumented workers

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2 w. ago Council executive defies Reform leadership by refusing to take down Pride flag

Warwickshire county council's chief executive has been blasted by Zia Yusuf as acting like the 'monarch of Warwickshire' when she defied their party orders.

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2 w. ago Coup for Nigel Farage as former Tory leader of Margaret Thatcher's London council defects to Reform

Dan Thomas quits with swipe at Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch

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2 w. ago Former London Tory council leader is latest Conservative councillor to defect to Nigel Farage's Reform party

Dan Thomas had been leader of Barnet Council in Margaret Thatcher’s back yard

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