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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Time for a fairer, humane immigration system
Tory policies of pursuing net migration targets has undermined our economy and our public services. Labour will end the ‘hostile environment’ writes DIANE ABBOTT
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
FALSE attacks from the Tories on Labour last week on the issue of immigration showed that dog whistle anti-migrant nonsense is still very much the Tories’ fall-back position under Boris Johnson.
Yet the truth is that the Conservatives’ own immigration policy is a toxic mess. They are tying themselves in knots, using dog-whistle anti-migrant rhetoric but yet being forced under scrutiny to accept that we need migrant workers for key sectors such as the NHS.
With the “Windrush Generation” scandal, they deported our own citizens and this continues to create new victims.
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