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Cost of living has loomed over this election cycle as workers and unions champion candidates fighting for higher wages and tackling rising prices
Read moreFrom the cheesecake factory discourse to the double Dan Sullivans, campaign season has been ridiculous
Read moreChancellor John Healey fails to guarantee equalisation with adult wage will happen in timeframe set out in manifesto
Read moreTory leader says apology would be ‘navel-gazing distraction’ and would be used as lever for financial compensation
Read moreThe Chancellor has suggested that younger workers might not receive the same minimum wage as others before the next election.
Read moreFormer president has given series of blistering speeches to help candidates in key races – and deployment has proved a hit with party’s progressive wing
Read moreWith heir apparent Danny Tommo also in custody, Robinson’s conviction for harassing journalists is blow to anti-migrant movement
Read moreIn her first major intervention since leaving the Treasury, Rachel Reeves says Brexit has made the UK "poorer, weaker and less secure".
Read moreFormer chancellor says leaving European Union has made Britain ‘poorer, weaker and less secure’
Read moreThe PM’s goals may spell bad news for the SNP. But his EU bridge-building could also resurrect its dreams of independence Fifty years ago this month, a group of leftwing Scots gathered in the Golden Lion hotel in Stirling for the inaugural conference of a new political party. The “Scottish Labour party” had formally split from Labour at the beginning of 1976, driven by disillusionment over the party’s timid proposals for a new Scottish assembly. They were led by the firebrand MP for South Ayrshire, Jim Sillars, who promised to take Scotland’s Labour tradition back to its roots in both socialis
Read moreGuardian understands Home Office continues to detain dozens of people, with one group forcibly removed this week
Read moreOn the latest Radical Thinking with Aditya Chakrabortty, the rebel economists Karel Williams and Sukhdev Johal explain why they believe praying for growth is a fool’s dream – and why it won’t improve your life
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