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Prime Minister Boris Johnson responds to SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford during Prime Minister's Questions in the House of Commons
MPs HAVE overwhelmingly voted to extend the government’s emergency Covid powers for another six months, despite fears that the Coronavirus Act “continually failed” the public.
The Act was voted through on March 24 2020 under little scrutiny, handing Boris Johnson’s government a wide variety of powers to slow the spread of the virus.
Today’s motion passed with 484 votes in favour versus 76 against.
From Gaza protest bans to proscribing Palestine Action, political elites are showing a crisis of confidence as they abandon Roy Jenkins’s apologetic approach for Suella Braverman’s aggressive ‘hate march’ rhetoric, writes PAUL DONOVAN
It is only trade union power at work that will materially improve the lot of working people as a class but without sector-wide collective bargaining and a right to take sympathetic strike action, we are hamstrung in the fight to tilt back the balance of power, argues ADRIAN WEIR
In an address to the Communist Party’s executive at the weekend international secretary KEVAN NELSON explained why the communists’ watchwords must be Jobs not Bombs and Welfare not Warfare