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LABOUR will give British companies priority over foreign firms in bidding for public-sector contracts after Brexit, Jeremy Corbyn said yesterday.
The party leader said that while leaving the EU “presents many challenges,” it could also allow reforms to procurement rules to favour domestic suppliers and jobs.
Almost £200 billion of public money is spent in the private sector every year, and Mr Corbyn said that a Labour government would enact major changes to which companies would be eligible for contracts.
PHILIP ENGLISH says military spending will not create the jobs young people need — instead, build an economy based around needs, not profit
Martin Taylor, the hedge-fund multimillionaire who has poured millions into pushing Labour rightwards, helped finance Lucy Powell’s supposedly dissenting campaign — suggesting her victory was not the ‘soft-left’ rebellion some have claimed, says SOLOMON HUGHES
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