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(left to right) Tracy Brabin Mayor of West Yorkshire, Labour Party deputy leader Angela Rayner, Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer, Richard Parker Mayor of the West Midlands and shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves during a meeting with Labour's newly expanded team of mayors, May 13, 2024
LABOUR confirmed today that it would implement in full the package of workers’ rights negotiated with trade unions.
Following a make-or-break meeting between Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer and union leaders on Tuesday, a spokesman said today that consultation with business on the reforms would only focus on “implementation” and not on the policies themselves.
They will include all those agreed by the party’s national policy forum last July, he confirmed.
Labour must not allow unelected members of the upper house to erode a single provision of the Employment Rights Bill, argues ANDY MCDONALD MP
The Bill addresses some exploitation but leaves trade unions heavily regulated, most workers without collective bargaining coverage, and fails to tackle the balance of power that enables constant mutation of bad practice, write KEITH EWING and LORD JOHN HENDY KC
Just as German Social Democrats joined the Nazis in singing Deutschland Uber Alles, ANDREW MURRAY observes how Starmer tries to out-Farage Farage with anti-migrant policies — but evidence shows Reform voters come from Tories, not Labour, making this ploy morally bankrupt and politically pointless
