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BRITAIN should replace its benefits system with a “universal basic income,” a major union has urged.
Before a speech by shadow chancellor John McDonnell last night, who said that Labour was giving serious consideration to the measure, general union GMB became the first major union to swing behind it.
The union unanimously endorsed a motion saying that a state payment to all “could effectively eradicate the worst levels of poverty completely.”
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
Deep disillusionment with the Westminster cross-party consensus means rupture with the status quo is on the cards – bringing not only opportunities but also dangers, says NICK WRIGHT