United Kingdom (Labour Party)

59+ min ago   (633+ words) OTTAWA — Federal government departments and agencies are set to spend more than $18 million to get their employees to work in the office more often. Thousands of federal public servants started a new work schedule in July requiring them to be…...

1+ hour, 38+ min ago   (506+ words) Britain should work towards rejoining the EU in the next decade, Tony Blair has said, adding to growing pressure on Andy Burnham to abandon Labour’s reluctance to revisit the 2016 referendum. The former prime minister has urged Burnham to use his…...

39+ min ago   (916+ words) European officials warn the U.K. would be playing a high-risk game if it delays an upcoming summit over Brussels’ protectionist push. LONDON — The U.K. risks blowing up its Brexit reset if it ties it to guarantees on Made in Europe....

1+ hour, 17+ min ago   (697+ words) MP Jhanda wants political parties to submit their final nominees for party-list seats after elections Nyaribari Chache MP Zaheer Jhanda Parliament may soon consider a fresh plot that would hand poll losers another route into county Assemblies and the bicameral…...

5+ hour, 11+ min ago   (875+ words) NDP Leader Avi Lewis, left, and Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) National Executive Vice-President Alex Silas speak to reporters after joining striking Bank of Canada security guards on the picket line outside the Bank of Canada in Ottawa on…...

1+ week, 16+ hour ago   (396+ words) ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact One Nation leader Barnaby Joyce has moonwalked away from professional and personal responsibility this CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT A slightly immature local adult has unfortunately gained access to an artillery of words that should WENDELL HUSSEY…...

59+ min ago   (282+ words) The controversy surrounding donations to Reform UK is, in my opinion, an example of the encroaching erasure of dissent. It raises a constitutional question about the direction of democratic government. How far should a government be permitted to alter the…...

8+ hour, 5+ min ago   (1616+ words) Piddington’s symbolic independence referendum presents real questions for Andy Burnham’s asylum seeker challenge — and emboldens critics who want to quit the ECHR. PIDDINGTON, England — Few would suspect this sedate village north of Oxford, population 350, is on the front line of…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (1717+ words) On 25 January 1981, four senior Labour politicians, later dubbed the “gang of four”, issued the Limehouse Declaration. The document, signed by former cabinet ministers Roy Jenkins, David Owen, Shirley Williams and Bill Rodgers near Owen’s home in east London, announced the…...

2+ hour, 46+ min ago   (1225+ words) On 26 January 1982, official figures revealed that unemployment in the United Kingdom had risen above three million for the first time since the 1930s. The total of 3,070,621 people out of work – representing one-eighth of the workforce – was a devastating milestone for Margaret…...