“FUNDAMENTAL” rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people could be eroded if they are not adopted into British law post-Brexit, transport workers warned this weekend.
Rail union RMT’s LGBT+ conference called for “urgent steps” to ensure protections currently included in the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights “will be enshrined in British law once the UK leaves the EU.”
A motion passed at the conference slammed the British government’s “dark and shameful history of persecuting LGBT+ people.”
MATTHEW HAWKINS welcomes an engaging and nourishing account of the queer subculture that flourished in London between WWII and partial decriminalisation
TUC general secretary PAUL NOWAK tells Ben Chacko that Labour can win back disillusioned voters by delivering workplace reforms, rebuilding trust and challenging the far right’s growing influence
The government’s latest asylum proposals abandon labour movement values and fuel division by aping Reform UK, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP
DIANE ABBOTT warns that Shabana Mahmood’s draconian asylum proposals fuel racist scapegoating and risk demoralising Labour’s base – potentially paving the way for Farage to No 10