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One in five workers in South Africa is poor. The plight of the working poor has wide implications. Employers have a responsibility to ensure a minimum level of decent wages.
If anyone other than Jeremy Corbyn is to become the next Labour leader, they will have to address the party’s fatalism about 2020.
Labour has made it really easy to vote in this contest, and Jeremy Corbyn is reaping the benefit.
Regardless of what Corbyn would mean for England, at least he’d win back Scotland for Labour, right? Not according to this new analysis.
It’s increasingly apparent that the Labour Party is muddling through a period of existential crisis. This week’s welfare bill debacle, where 48 MPs wilfully defied the interim leadership’s call for abstention…
Our politics correspondent explains why the Nuneaton hustings was just a warm-up act to the main event.
It is normal that for politicians to engage in angry finger-pointing after a humiliating electoral defeat. Playing the blame game has a therapeutic effect and helps a party make sense of its defeat. It…
Labour needs to make three big improvements, if it’s to improve its performance in 2020.
Len McCluskey needs to snap back to reality, if he wants to see Labour in government.
Sovereign Wealth Funds have about $7 trillion to invest in the companies we work for – and new research shows that the biggest of them brings some extra benefits.
Tens of thousands have signed a petition for the north of England to join Scotland. But deeper cooperation rather than secession is the answer.
The UK election made an irresistible case for proportional representation, but a Conservative government is not likely to play ball. The upper house might be a compromise, though.
Labour needs to focus on leadership, policies and image, if it’s to bounce back.
Labour, UKIP and the Greens all gained much bigger swings than the Conservatives, but were election losers. The first-past-the-post system let the Tories pick up a swag of seats with a 0.8% swing.
Names are already flying, but rushing an appointment would be a big mistake.
There were shock results all round, with some big names falling.
Experts provide a rolling response, live as the results come in for the 2015 general election.
One of the consequences of the SNP’s rise is that the new UK government will have very few seats in Scotland. This looks set to become a hot potato after the election.
From spontaneous selfies to the spin room, the communications gurus have excelled themselves this time around
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