#Labour

The UK rightly losing its shit over the govt banning the teaching of anti-capitalism. For anyone who has been through the education system there knows that this is implicit already.
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I feel bad about this, generally discipline for internal elections is extremely important, but I can’t vote for Pidcock or Henderson for the NEC. One important thing, moving away even
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I’m not clear why people think Labour’s ‘new’ desire for schools to reopen in September somehow puts them on a collision course with teaching unions.Teaching unions - made up, y’know,
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I get all the disappointment out there about the Budget. I also get the anger at the Greens. But I want to offer a different perspective. Your anger needs to
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Scottish marginals & the seats to watch - a thread. /1 At every general election, the real battle is only in a sub-set of seats, the marginals. /2 Scotland has
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Disgraceful that a Government Minister and Tory MPs shared a smear about the Labour leader from a far-right account, without questioning it's accuracy. Why did this happen? Because the urge
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wait so what was leaked in the labour antisemitism document? does anyone have a link to the document so I can read it?
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Current odds on a Conservative win in Hartlepool. If (if) the Conservatives win it will be big news. I wonder what lessons the Conservatives might learn from victory though.https://twitter.com/PickardJE/status/1387472151343677449 Perhaps
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This morning I’m at the election count for the nine Newcastle seats on Staffordshire County Council. Counting is well underway and hopefully we shouldn’t have to wait too long for
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An extract from #LabourLeaks: HQ staff set up another organisation (p.92), based in another building, to divert party funds & secretly channel them to the campaigns of their favoured right
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This is the fourth time in just over a century that the Treasury faces the challenge of 'unfreezing' the economy by rolling back emergency controls and subsidies. I hope it's
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Why don't we have control of our borders?We do. Passports were introduced during WW1 and since then you haven't been able to legally enter UK without one.But people do enter
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Like @UKLabour peer Lesley Griffiths, I too dreaded the summer holidays. School is an escape for so many. And like @MarcusRashford the free school meals campaign is personal to me
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The #genderpaygap goes way beyond issues connected to education. The key causes are: gender segregation in jobs, a lack of flexible work, pay discrimination & women’s responsibility for unpaid carehttps://www.theguardian.com/world/202
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One from the vaults because the columnists have suddenly decided that Labour needs to connect more with communities. Me for @NewSocialistUK last year on the now-defunct Labour Community Organising Unit.http://newsocialist.org.uk/activists-o
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1/ Why moving abroad will get you ahead.I want to give you a new way to think about work and the value of your labour...FRIDAY THREAD. 2/ After two and
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