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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'A thousand fires have been lit across the country – this is a grassroots revolt'
As ambulance workers join nurses in the biggest NHS strike in history, GMB leader GARY SMITH talks to Ben Chacko about what’s behind the current wave of industrial militancy
GMB leader Gary Smith
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
TODAY sees the biggest NHS strike in history as striking nurses are joined by paramedics, ambulance workers and call handlers organised in the Unite and GMB unions.
Ambulances queued up outside hospitals unable to hand over emergency patients have left the country in no doubt about the scale of the NHS crisis.
Last week Rishi Sunak was forced to announce £1 billion in funding for thousands of extra beds and hundreds more ambulances.
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