Labour needs to compromise on employment rights
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UK’s labour market tsar calls for crackdown on bogus self-employment
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UK ministers seek compromises on workers’ rights bill amid business concerns
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From a ‘golden era’ to post-pandemic mistrust, the UK has had a turbulent relationship with the world’s second-largest economy. Kerry Brown is director of the Lau China Institute, King’s College ...The Guardian - 3d -
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The party wants to seem in control. But many of its MPs have knife-edge majorities that a challenger could obliterate. Labour campaigned for 14 years to get rid of the Tories, and emerged from the ...The Guardian - Jan. 6 -
Labour’s new year resolution? It needs a better story. Here’s one Starmer could tell | John Harris
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2025: Labour’s year of pain?
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The tricky year ahead for Labour
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