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Labour shadow minister Jonathan Ashworth accused the Tories yesterday of ramping up their “vicious” anti-union agenda with attacks on Whitehall’s trade union officials.
Mr Ashworth spoke to the Star after Cabinet Office Minister Francis Maude crowed in the Commons that he would take yet more measures to curb paid facility time for union representatives.
Mr Maude said the government had put in place “arrangements to try to find out exactly what is going on” in government departments with regard to trade union activities and facility time.
In part IV of a serialisation of his new book, JOHN McINALLY tells how austerity minister Francis Maude’s attempt to destroy the PCS Civil Service union totally backfired
CLAUDIA WEBBE argues that Labour gains nothing from its adoption of right-wing stances on immigration, and seems instead to be deliberately paving the way for the far right to become an established force in British politics, as it has already in Europe