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...Unions have drawn little comfort from new chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s move to reverse parts of the “mini” Budget to restore confidence in the UK’s fiscal position, given his signal that there will be fresh...
...And still with mature male American writers: a nod for This Train (No Exit, £9.99) by James Grady....
...Frances O’Grady, TUC general secretary, called on ministers to do everything to get pay rising....
...The Labour leader refused to say on Thursday whether he would keep a commitment by his hard-left predecessor Jeremy Corbyn from the 2019 general election to abolish tuition fees, at a cost of £9.5bn a year...
...The account has industry fans such as Jonah Hill, Natasha Lyonne and Jeremy O’Harris (“He was in my DMs begging me to post more Pasolini fits,” Kourounian says of the playwright, over Zoom)....
...TUC general secretary Frances O’Grady told Congress that “the new face at No11” had not lifted the threat of further cuts to public sector pay and working age benefits, at a time when UK workers were on...
...Frances O’Grady, general secretary of the Trades Union Congress, argued this week that an extra £43bn a year would be needed by 2024-5 to protect public services and pay from inflation....
...Frances O’Grady We’ve had the Conservative rule for 12 years....
...Some of Starmer’s promises were in Labour’s 2019 election manifesto when his predecessor Jeremy Corbyn was leader....
...Accepting the result, Graham vowed to stay out of Labour politics in a marked contrast to her predecessor Len McCluskey, a keen ally of former party leader Jeremy Corbyn....
...Many joined movements such as Occupy Wall Street, the Spanish Indignados and contributed to the leftward shift of the UK Labour party under Jeremy Corbyn after 2015....
...This is the first time a woman has become leader of any of the so-called Big Three — Unite, Unison and the GMB — although the umbrella Trades Union Congress has a female general secretary, Frances O’Grady...
...Not even in the landslide election of 1997 is Tony Blair estimated to have attracted more than half of the 18-34 vote, which Jeremy Corbyn did in 2019....
...Frances O’Grady agrees that Sunak already looks like his own man....
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...Ms O’Grady also said the Article 50 exit process should “be extended as an insurance policy against the risk of crashing out”....
...In 2015 he endorsed Jeremy Corbyn’s campaign for the Labour leadership, accusing the “political elites” of complacency for trying to dismiss him....
...By contrast Ms O’Grady has a strong working relationship with Jeremy Corbyn, the leftwing leader of the opposition Labour party....
...Many of the findings by the IPPR commission on economic justice echo the diagnosis of Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour party leader, that the economy is failing its citizens because of entrenched income inequality...
...But under Jeremy Corbyn, who will address the TUC in Brighton on Tuesday, the unions have come back in from the cold....
...Jeremy Corbyn’s party is in opposition against a government with a slender working majority....
...The alliance between Jeremy Corbyn, opposition leader, and Len McCluskey of the powerful Unite union has ensured that traditional links between Labour and the unions remain strong....
...The Trades Union Congress, the umbrella body for British unions led by Frances O’Grady, has hired 27-year-old Clare Coatman to help find the answer....
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