RMT praises ‘fantastic’ turnout at picket lines but government plays down impact of action The first day of the biggest rail strikes in decades gave much of Great Britain a reminder of lockdown, with city centres quieter as millions avoided public transport, worked from home or took to their cars. […]
Month: June 2022
At least five MPs defy Keir Starmer’s orders and tweet pictures of themselves with RMT strikers Keir Starmer is expected to discipline at least five Labour frontbenchers who defied his orders and appeared on RMT picket lines on Tuesday in solidarity with striking railworkers. On the first of three days […]
Analysis: Critics fear Labour leader’s tactics are largely about drawing dividing lines within his own party In a gritty promotional video for his 2020 Labour leadership bid, Keir Starmer called himself a “proud trade unionist” who had worked with unions “all my life”, including as a legal observer on the […]
The PM and his transport secretary pose as bystanders while millions of Britons suffer. They could intervene. But they have no will and no plan Ed Davey is the leader of the Liberal Democrats This week has left the country drained after government ministers reverted to divisive political playbooks last […]
Proposal to replace Human Rights Act with bill of rights is effort to make government ‘untouchable’, say critics What would a British bill of rights look like? Downing Street will tomorrow set out sweeping plans to override the power of Europe’s human rights court just days after a judge in […]
Unions condemn measure as potentially against international law as 40,000 staff prepare for first day of industrial action Boris Johnson has responded to the biggest rail strikes in a generation with plans to break the industrial action by allowing firms to bring in agency staff, a move unions have decried […]
Newspaper swiftly withdrew article alleging Boris Johnson tried to hire his future wife as chief of staff The Times swiftly withdrew a story that made allegations about the prime minister and his wife after Downing Street intervened to complain about it, No 10 has confirmed. The piece alleged that Boris […]
Exclusive: Questions over palaces, vineyards and yachts run by entities that appear to be part of a cooperative Russian palaces, villas and yachts linked to Putin by email leak – in pictures, maps and video Palaces, yachts and vineyards reportedly provided to Vladimir Putin by friends and oligarchs can now […]
Muratov, who was awarded the gold medal in October 2021, said proceeds would go to Unicef to help children displaced by Ukraine war The Nobel Peace Prize that Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov was auctioning off to raise money for Ukrainian child refugees has sold for $103.5m (£84.5m), shattering the record […]
Roberto David Castillo sentenced for role in assassination of Indigenous environmentalist in 2016 The US military trained him. Then he helped murder Berta Cáceres A US-trained former Honduran army intelligence officer who was the president of an internationally financed energy company has been sentenced to 22 years and six months […]