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Labour closing the gap!
by New Worker correspondent
LABOUR is closing the gap on the Tory lead in the opinion polls as the minor parties are squeezed out with less than a fortnight to go until polling day. Labour has published secret documents which show that the Tories are indeed ready to pawn the health service to the big American pharmaceutical companies as part of a post-Brexit trans-Atlantic trade deal.
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Labour closing the gap!
Election Fever
by our Scottish political affairs correspondent
THE General Election campaign has so inspired the Scottish electorate that the list of the 10 “most read” stories on the website of a major Scottish newspaper on Tuesday was topped by the news that the Chair of Glasgow Rangers Football Club was resigning and included the tale of someone being robbed of their Christmas shopping. Not a single election story was included.
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Election Fever
Strikes in the Dreaming Spires
by New Worker correspondent
MONDAY saw the start of an eight-day strike by many members of the 120,000 strong University and College Union (UCU) at 60 of Britain’s 147 institutions of higher learning, from Aberdeen to Exeter.
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Strikes in the Dreaming Spires