Lead story
May must go!
by Daphne Liddle
THE ELECTION results are in; we have a hung parliament and Theresa May’s big gamble has turned into a fiasco for the Tories. The Tories remain the largest party in Parliament but they no longer have an overall majority.
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May must go!
Election Special
LOSING 13 or 3.9 per cent of your parliamentary seats whilst increasing your popular vote by 5.5 per cent is a crushing defeat demanding the resignation of the leader. Losing 21 seats, or 37.5 per cent per cent and a similar percentage of your popular vote is a glorious victory. Such was the verdict of First Minister Nicola Sturgeon on the performance of the Tories and Scottish National Party (SNP) respectively.
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Election Special
Unions take undercutting fight to Copenhagen
MEMBERS of the unions Unite and GMB last Tuesday travelled to Copenhagen to protest outside the headquarters of the company PensionDanmark over ‘social dumping’ and the use of imported workers at two construction sites in Britain on low pay and conditions that undermine the terms negotiated by the unions.
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Unions take undercutting fight to Copenhagen