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20,000 London bus workers could take industrial action over route cuts

The trade union Unite has warned of industrial action on London’s buses unless the threat to cut routes is taken off the table. This follows a six

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Lord Geidt has resigned as the Prime Minister’s ethics adviser. He’s the second person in the post to quit in the last 18 months. His

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On Monday night, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) intervened to prevent a deportation flight from taking a group of asylum seekers to

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Having failed in their Scooby Doo villain-esque plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda as part of a cruel policy aiming to deter people from

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1- New campaign launched to stop the sale of Channel 4 A new campaign designed to stop the privatisation of Channel 4 was launched this week.

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The deal between GMB and Deliveroo is the focus of a special UnionDues podcast episode, which drops at noon today. You can access this and all

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The European Union has launched fresh legal proceedings against the UK over failing to implement parts of the post-Brexit agreement the government

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GB News celebrates its one-year anniversary this week. To mark the occasion, Nigel Farage, who hosts his own primetime show on the channel,

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If not for a last-minute intervention by the European Court of Human Rights, yesterday would have seen the first deportation flight to Rwanda. This

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On June 14, the Conservative MP for Ipswich took to Twitter to inform his 14k followers what he thought of those opposing the widely condemned scheme

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In a dramatic eleventh-hour ruling, Priti Patel’s plan to send asylum seekers from the UK to the East African nation was called off. A late

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According to BBC Persian reporter Parham Ghobadi, four of the seven asylum seekers at detention centres in London who are due to be deported to

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The adjectives used by Treasury Minister Baroness Penn in introducing the UK Infrastructure Bank Bill in the House of Lords were telling. This was to

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As the cost of living crisis continues to bite, trade unions are gearing up for a so-called ‘summer of discontent’. Plans are already in place

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For someone who once claimed to be a conduit for God, Nadine Dorries does have an odd habit of getting the most simple things wrong. Seeming to