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THE National Union of Teachers will remain neutral in the referendum on Britain’s membership of the EU after a heated debate on the final day of its conference yesterday.
Delegates discussed a motion arguing that privatisation and austerity is “hardwired” into the EU and called for the union to support a vote to Leave.
“If progressive forces line up behind the Prime Minister and help him win the referendum, they will do a great disservice to working people,” it stated.
TIM ROBERTS says unions have always led on the fight for equality as well as for justice at work
Friedrich Merz’s call for a new Plaza Accord ignores how Washington’s 1985 currency ambush destroyed Japan without fixing US deficits — China, a sovereign socialist state with 1.4 billion consumers, cannot be bullied the same way, writes CARLOS MARTINEZ
US tariffs have had Von der Leyen bowing in submission, while comments from the former European Central Bank leader call for more European political integration and less individual state sovereignty. All this adds up to more pain and austerity ahead, argues NICK WRIGHT
Every Starmer boast about removing asylum-seekers probably wins Reform another seat while Labour loses more voters to Lib Dems, Greens and nationalists than to the far right — the disaster facing Labour is the leadership’s fault, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP