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Boris backtracks already!
by New Worker correspondent
BORIS JOHNSON’S new Tory government was sworn in this week, boosted by last week’s general election that won them 365 of the 650 seats in the House of Commons. The Johnson government confirmed that its first priority was to withdraw from the European Union — a pledge that clearly helped the Tories smash through Labour’s ‘red wall’ in northern England.
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Boris backtracks already!
Recognition battles: bosses spurn ‘turkey truce’
by New Worker correspondent
TUESDAY MORNING saw Unite, the construction union, hold a demonstration at the High Speed Railway construction site at London’s Euston Station. Their target was the HS2 Costain/Skanska Joint Venture (CSJV) site. The union accuses CSJV management of “acting like Scrooge and spurning Unite’s offer of a ‘Turkey truce’”.
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Recognition battles: bosses spurn ‘turkey truce’
Elections, Past, Present and Future
by our Scottish political affairs correspondent
THE OUTCOME of the General Election north and south of the border for Labour was at same time both different and the same. Labour got well and truly beaten, but by different parties.
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Elections, Past, Present and Future