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Miliband is right to tackle cheap foreign labour

I am delighted that Ed Miliband has announced that Labour will work with businesses to promote equal pay and conditions for agency staff across Europe.

Our newspapers report daily how people blame Europe for immigration and this run-up to the new...

Zero hours contracts: a symptom, not the disease

As my only direct experience of life on a zero hours contract is a brief period some 30 years ago as a manager of front-line staff employed almost exclusively (then and now) on such contracts, I hesitate to take issue...

2014, Labour's year of...Party reform

We face an enormous struggle to get rid of the present lousy administration in less than 18 months time so the last thing the Labour movement needs is to spend precious time navel gazing. Sadly we are committed to doing...

2014, Labour's year of...Supporting the EU referendum

Whatever is the Labour Party doing dithering about whether or not to support an in/out referendum on Europe?  Unusually electoral tactics and principle are aligned. 80 per cent of the electorate want a referendum and constitutionally they have never given...

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