Back off Boris — anti-racists to protest outside MP's office

Maxine Peake hits back at Tory MP's smear

MAXINE PEAKE rejected Tory MP Simon Hart’s accusation of hypocrisy yesterday for being paid to voice an NHS recruitment advert.

Unite accuses government of ‘washing its hands’ of agency workers swindled by umbrella companies

THE government has been “washing its hands” of thousands of agency workers who have suffered pay injustice at the hands of umbrella companies, Unit

Boris Johnson branded ‘pound-shop Trump’ for burka comments

BORIS JOHNSON was branded a “pound-shop Donald Trump” today after saying that Muslim women wearing burkas “look like letter boxes” or bank robbers.

Children's commissioner warns of dwindling protection services

THE CHILDREN’S COMMISSIONER for England has voiced her concern over families with vulnerable youngsters being unable to get help from broke council

‘Fundamental problems’ with universal credit

Child Poverty Action Group calls for rollout to stop until flagship benefit’s major flaws are fixed

Landin in Scotland Who’s really to blame for the shameful disaster of outsourcing? We know the answer

SERCO runs everything in Britain, and increasingly abroad, from school inspections to Yarl’s Wood via massive cleaning contracts and refugee housin

Most Tory councillors oppose fracking, new survey reveals

THE government’s support for fast-tracking fracking is being opposed by the vast majority of its own Tory councillors, a new poll suggests.

Amazon’s ‘dodgy tax set-up’ shows the government is ‘letting down the country,’ says GMB

The richest man in the world Jeff Bezos's company paid just £1.7 million in tax last year

Tory cuts responsible for increased fire deaths, firefighters warn

12,000 frontline firefighter jobs have been cut since the Tories came to power in 2010