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• 'Tens of thousands' of jobs at risk, Jaguar Land Rover boss tells PM

  11-09-2018 21:40
  Ralf Speth says he cannot be sure any UK plants will continue to operate after BrexitBritain’s biggest car manufacturer, Jaguar Land Rover, has launched a blistering attack on Theresa May’s handling of Brexit as leading Eurosceptics claim there is “nothing to fear” about crashing out of the EU without a deal.Ralf Speth, the chief executive, told the prime minister that the company’s factories faced grinding to a halt and “tens of thousands” of jobs in th
  
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• Labour promises to restore boss-worker balance

  11-09-2018 21:36
  Shadow chancellor outlines proposals for employee rights and corporate governance
  John McDonnell has outlined Labour’s proposed employment measures to bolster the strength of unions and transform the gig economy in a speech to the Trades Union Congress.The shadow chancellor said the measures would produce a new workplace environment which would boost the UK’s economy if the party formed the next government. Continue reading...
  
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• Martin Rowson on Sajid Javid's comments about post-Brexit unrest – cartoon

  11-09-2018 21:13
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• Activists to use Labour conference to push for second Brexit vote

  11-09-2018 21:10
  Campaigners hope to force issue on to conference agenda after local constituency parties back People’s VoteLabour campaigners for a second Brexit referendum believe they have all but won the battle to force it on to the agenda at the party’s conference in Liverpool, with more than 60 local constituency parties backing a People’s Vote.Constituency Labour parties (CLPs) can pass “contemporary motions”, calling for individual issues to be discussed, with the top four s
  
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• Labour’s zero-hours contract policy is personal

  11-09-2018 20:58 via ft.com
  John McDonnell’s father and grandfather were casual workers at Liverpool docks
  
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• Met chief calls latest police pay award a 'punch on the nose'

  11-09-2018 20:11
  Cressida Dick claims pay award could damage officer morale and calls for more resources for policingThe Metropolitan police commissioner, Cressida Dick, has said policing needs more resources and support, not pressure to reform, and branded the government’s pay award to officers as a “punch on the nose”.The government ignored an independent pay body’s award of a 3% rise to officers, insteadgiving them 2% in July. Continue reading...
  
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• Labour pledges raft of extra rights for UK workers

  11-09-2018 20:10 via ft.com
  Shadow chancellor John McDonnell takes on insecure working practices and low wages
  
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• Carney to remain at BoE until January 2020

  11-09-2018 19:31 via ft.com
  Decision will ‘ensure continuity’ after Brexit, says Philip Hammond
  
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• Barnier confronts Raab over discovery of Brexit no-deal letters to EU27

  11-09-2018 19:20
  Exclusive: Letters ask states to engage with UK in side deals on transport if Brexit talks fail
  Dominic Raab has been reprimanded by Michel Barnier after the EU’s chief negotiator discovered the British government had written to the 27 other member states asking for side negotiations on transport in the event of a no-deal Brexit.The Brexit secretary was confronted by Barnier during their most recent meeting in Brussels over correspondence sent in recent days to EU capitals by the Departmen
  
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• The ‘scarlet woman’ cliche wheeled out for Carrie Symonds makes me vomit | Hadley Freeman

  11-09-2018 19:00
  There are many more objectionable things about Boris Johnson than his alleged affair. But the media focus on this ‘feisty’, ‘party-loving’ woman is relentlessThere is a well-established and strictly obeyed format for writing about a women who is alleged to have had an affair with a powerful man, one that has barely been updated from the John F Kennedy era. They must be portrayed as predatory but simultaneously idiotic; actions and attributes that would seem in most other
  
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• TUC: Labour's John McDonnell pledges 'gig economy' rights boost

  11-09-2018 18:25 via bbc.co.uk
  John McDonnell tells the TUC Labour would "restore the balance of power in the workplace".
  
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• One plus one equals a trillion in the Brexiters' theatre of the absurd

  11-09-2018 18:14
  Forget all the worries about no deal being reached – there are literally no downsides to BrexitShortly before 11am, committee room nine began to fill up. First in were Owen Paterson, Steve Baker, Peter Bone, David Davis, Iain Duncan Smith, Bill Cash and Andrew Bridgen. Next was Matt Ridley. Always useful to have a climate change denier who destroyed Northern Rock onboard. Then came Jacob Rees-Mogg, followed a short while later by a sleep-deprived Boris Johnson, trying to slip in unnoticed.
  
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• Brexit: Jaguar boss issues stark warning for jobs and profits

  11-09-2018 18:11 via bbc.co.uk
  The chief executive of Britain's biggest carmaker say a "wrong" Brexit would devastate profits and jobs.
  
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• Mark Carney to stay on at Bank of England until 2020

  11-09-2018 15:48 via bbc.co.uk
  Mark Carney extends term as Bank of England governor until the end of January 2020, chancellor says.
  
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• Rising optimism over a Brexit deal

  11-09-2018 14:52 via ft.com
  Prospects for an EU pact have improved, but Commons approval remains uncertain
  
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• Time to reshape UK politics is approaching, says Cable

  11-09-2018 14:40 via ft.com
  Lib Dem leader wants to create a ‘come-to’ party for disillusioned moderates
  
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• The garbled nonsense of Jacob Rees-Mogg's new press release

  11-09-2018 13:23
  
  It is hard to find a single accurate sentence in the entire thing
  
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• Let foreign students work in UK after study, ministers told

  11-09-2018 11:12 via ft.com
  Report into higher education and migration recommends preferential work visas
  
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• Business pushes for gay marriage in Northern Ireland

  11-09-2018 10:23 via ft.com
  Province needs to be in line with rest of UK to create ‘diverse, vibrant economy’
  
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• Farmland sale tests interest in UK agriculture after Brexit

  11-09-2018 05:01 via ft.com
  Portfolio of East Anglian farmland expected to fetch more than £200m
  
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• Tory Eurosceptics fail to agree on Brexit plan B

  11-09-2018 05:00 via ft.com
  Publication of alternative to Chequers deal called off as divisions come to the fore
  
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• Conservative Eurosceptics fail to agree on Brexit plan B

  11-09-2018 05:00 via ft.com
  Publication of alternative to Chequers deal called off as divisions come to the fore
  
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• Labour plans for ‘worker-owners’ attacked by business

  11-09-2018 01:01 via ft.com
  John McDonnell wants to force companies to pay share of profits into ‘employee funds’
  
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• Get a grip on police funding, Home Office told

  11-09-2018 01:01 via ft.com
  National Audit Office report spurs MPs’ warning on failure to manage impact of cuts
  
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