The Carpathia isn’t coming to rescue this government still swimming in the mire, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
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‘Your papers please’: is that where Brexit Britain is headed?
SOLOMON HUGHES on the worrying plans that could turn migrant workers into second class citizens
As the RMT Health and Safety Conference takes place, the union is calling for urgent action on crisis of work-related stress, understaffing and the growing threat of workplace assaults. RMT leader EDDIE DEMPSEY explains
Current polling shows Scottish Labour faces a stark choice: break decisively with Westminster or continue its slide into irrelevance, warns VINCE MILLS
As discussions continue between the US and Iran over the Islamic Republic’s nuclear enrichment programme, the suppression of internal dissent by the theocratic dictatorship grows. STEVE BISHOP reports.
Last weekend’s inaugural conference mixed warmth, unity and ambition with the unmistakable echo of old arguments. MATT KERR wonders whether the fledgling party’s difficulties can be overcome
The US president’s career is defined by a consistent use of racist tropes and provocation. Why are world leaders so silent over his repeated vitriolic prejudice, asks ROGER McKENZIE
TORY MP Anna Soubry and former Labour Home Office minister Barbara Roche are backing a post-Brexit plan to severely limit the legal rights of migrants, making them get “work permits” from individual employers and taking away their freedom of movement within the UK, restricting them to specific British regions or cities.
Soubry and Roche are “co-chairs” of an organisation called the Migration Matters Trust, which launched the “regional work permits” plan in October.
Soubry, a prominent Remain campaigner, describes herself as “liberal” on immigration and has spoken strongly about the important contribution migrants make to the NHS.
However, her organisation promoting the restrictive “regional work permits” scheme shows how pro-EU campaigners are very ready to compromise migrant workers’ rights.
The Migration Matters Trust’s director, Atul Hatwal, says their “Regional Work Permits” scheme addresses the problem that there are “two Englands,” one which is “hostile to migrants” and another that “is more welcoming to foreigners, supports multiculturalism.”
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