The Tories introduced the 50% strike ballot threshold to make industrial action harder. MATT WRACK argues that a Labour government has no justification for leaving it on the statute book
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Why the government is wrong to say the NHS hasn’t been overwhelmed by Covid-19
The coronavirus is an unprecedented challenge — one that Boris Johnson and his team have met with spectacular levels of incompetence, bad calls and dishonesty, reveals IAN SINCLAIR
Health Secretary Matt Hancock
In the wake of Ann Widdecombe’s murder, JOHN GREEN wonders whether the government will really get to grips with the root cause of these attacks on our MPs
The new PM’s opening addresses offered hope, council homes and reform — but little detail on how any of it will be delivered, warns CLAUDIA WEBBE
Despite the screeching from the right-wing media, Burnham’s speech chimed with the public mood - and socialists should take advantage, says Morning Star editor BEN CHACKO
Scotland's Labour leader cannot continue to evade responsibility for the party's decline, argues LAUREN HARPER
Nature as well as society works dialectically, asserts the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School
APPEARING on the BBC Today programme on April 6, the Health Secretary noted a “core goal” during the pandemic was “making sure the NHS isn’t overwhelmed.”
“Which everybody was telling me a month ago was impossible to achieve but that has been achieved,” Matt Hancock said.
The Prime Minister exhibited even more audacity at the end of April.
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