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Prime Minister Theresa May and other Tories in 10 Downing Street today
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TORIES cannot be trusted to strengthen post-Brexit workers’ rights, Labour frontbenchers and unions said as they rallied against Theresa May’s latest tactic to shore up support for her unpopular withdrawal deal today.
A government source confirmed that the Prime Minister is considering backing an amendment to her plan — proposed by a small number of backbench Labour MPs — calling for protections.
The amendment was tabled by Bassetlaw MP John Mann and endorsed by around 20 other backbench Labour MPs of Leave-voting constituencies, who said it would safeguard workers’ pay and conditions after Brexit.
Labour must not allow unelected members of the upper house to erode a single provision of the Employment Rights Bill, argues ANDY MCDONALD MP
Incoming Usdaw general secretary JOANNE THOMAS talks to Ben Chacko about workers’ rights, Labour and how to arrest the decline of the high street
From Gaza complicity to welfare cuts chaos, Starmer’s baggage accumulates, and voters will indeed find ‘somewhere else’ to go — to the Greens, nationalists, Lib Dems, Reform UK or a new, working-class left party, writes NICK WRIGHT
