Transparency records reveal senior trade officials held dinners and strategy meetings with the notorious lobbying firm even as controversy over its Epstein links deepened, says SOLOMON HUGHES
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‘It’s no coincidence the Tories are attacking unions now – it’s because we’re winning’
Unite general secretary SHARON GRAHAM speaks to Ben Chacko about winning on pay, challenging the bosses’ narrative on inflation and driving an agenda for change
“Of those 451 disputes we’ve won 81 per cent. You don’t win everything, that’s not life, but you’ve got to win more than you lose. We’ve won 81 per cent and put £200 million back into the pockets of workers. I’m waking up every morning, the reps are waking up every morning, the officers are waking up every morning thinking: ‘How can we win?’"
Starmer promised a reset after Labour’s dire electoral performance, but the government’s programme still falls far short of the bold action needed, says ANDY McDONALD MP
ANDREW DRAPER reports on the deliberate targeting and torture of Palestinian journalists by the Israeli state
Author Michael Rosen asked people how we confront a takeover by Reform. The Labour Party would do well to listen to the answers rather than shuffle more deckchairs on the Titanic, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
What began as a purported ‘anti-drugs mission’ has evolved into a permanent regional military operation, write ROGER D HARRIS and JOHN PERRY
KEITH FLETT looks at a post-election London
“WE’RE at a ‘which side are you on?’ moment for the labour movement. That’s not being bullish. That’s just reality.”
Unite leader Sharon Graham sees nothing new in Liz Truss’s attempts to attack public services to enrich the richest.
“It’s the policy they’ve been peddling, frankly, for at least the last 10,11 years. This trickle-down economics, rich get richer, poor get poorer — it’s not new. It’s just now on steroids.
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