HENRY FOWLER, assistant general secretary of the General Federation of Trade Unions (GFTU), reports on Day 2 from the GFTU’s residential Summer School at the Workers’ Retreat, Quorn Grange Hotel
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Assistant general secretary of the General Federation of Trade Unions HENRY FOWLER reports on day 1 from the GFTU’s residential Summer School at Quorn Grange Hotel
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The PM leaves office having squandered Labour’s electoral mandate and alienated its grassroots. He will not be missed, writes BRIAN LEISHMAN MP
FROM the red wall of the north to the scudding skies of East Anglia and points south and west, poorer pupils will not receive free meals during school holidays this half-term.
In July, Marcus Rashford forced the Prime Minister into a humiliating U-turn, which delivered the free meals throughout the long summer holidays. Not so in harsher October.
The Prime Minister’s spokesperson insisted it would not be repeated, despite the spread of tougher restrictions across England as coronavirus infections surge, insisting: “We are in a different position now.”
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