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Cabinet Office sets out plan for bringing services like cleaning and security back in-house
RETAIL tycoon Sir Philip Green was accused of ripping off thousands of British Home Stores (BHS) workers yesterday when he sold the company for £1 after leaving it billions of pounds in the red.
Members of shopworkers’ union Usdaw laid into the BHS former owner during their annual conference in Blackpool this week.
Their angry attacks came shortly before MPs called on Mr Green to appear before a cross-party committee to face questions over his possible involvement in the retail chain’s collapse.
Martin Taylor, the hedge-fund multimillionaire who has poured millions into pushing Labour rightwards, helped finance Lucy Powell’s supposedly dissenting campaign — suggesting her victory was not the ‘soft-left’ rebellion some have claimed, says SOLOMON HUGHES
Investing the £75 billion slated for defence spending on a green new deal, healthcare and education would create jobs and help communities far more than weapons spending, argues UCU general secretary JO GRADY
Incoming Usdaw general secretary JOANNE THOMAS talks to Ben Chacko about workers’ rights, Labour and how to arrest the decline of the high street