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John McDonnell's radical plans will transform our country
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John McDonnell's radical plans
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I HAVE just returned from the Labour Party conference in Brighton, a conference that was vibrant, exciting and full of debate in the hall and across the fringe.
Shadow chancellor John McDonnell, consistently Labour’s best performer, is building a reputation as a credible, knowledgeable, competent chancellor-in-waiting. His speech was stuffed with new policy announcements that would radically improve the relationship between workers and their bosses while improving productivity and giving people a stake in, and some control over, their work.
The key pledges were to end in-work poverty by increasing the “real living wage” to more than £10 an hour, cutting the average working week to 32 hours over four days within 10 years and ending the opt-out from the European Working Time Directive, which lets firms get round the rules on limiting working hours to 48 hours a week.
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