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  1. 3 hours ago

    The rise in zero-hours contracts can only be halted by strong unions

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    9 hours ago

    Great to welcome and to WM Lee in Dronfield, a successful manufacturing company and an important local employer. All the more reason to

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    8 hours ago

    .'s important message to Conservatives: "Anyone who professed to care about the anti-Semitism of some Jeremy Corbyn supporters who is not up in arms about their own party's MEPs supporting Hungary's fascist regime is a hypocrite, a liar and a fraud."

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  4. 8 hours ago

    After the 2008 financial crisis, I called for the new set of economic priorities our country needs. A restructured banking system, a major investment programme in infrastructure, housing and renewable energy generation. My article 10 years ago:

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    11 hours ago

    I've written to the new Tory Attorney-General about his views on making tax havens more transparent after his disappointing answers in the House of Commons last week. story here:

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  6. 21 hours ago

    The election of a Conservative-led government in 2010 meant that it wasn’t the speculators who caused the financial crisis ten years ago who would pay for it. It was the rest of society with 8 years of hard austerity.

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    Sep 12

    "The gig economy, zero hours contract, is nothing new. It is simply the reincarnation of an ancient evil." The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, tells the TUC that some people see the "oppression of the employed as a virtue".

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    Sep 12

    . is pouring petrol on the burning injustices in our society.

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  9. Sep 12

    Is Theresa May going to call out those Tory MEPs, who were whipped to vote to support Viktor Orban against a censure motion for his attacks on refugees and his antisemitism & Islamophobia? If not, I wouldn’t advise her to lecture anyone on racism again.

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  10. Sep 12

    These figures expose starkly how hard people’s incomes have been hit by the government’s mismanagement of the economy. Young people’s incomes down over £2000 a year. No wonder so many of them are struggling to get by and want a change.

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  11. Sep 11

    Today at the TUC conference I set out Labour's plans to guarantee millions working in the gig economy and insecure jobs the same rights to sick pay, parental leave and protections at work as the rest of us

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    Sep 11

    Amazing speech by at demonstrating his absolute understanding of the hardships faced daily by millions of our citizens. A real people’s chancellor

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    Sep 11

    Every decent person should applaud the proposals set out by and this afternoon. The dreadful and growing inequality in this country cannot start to be addressed until we have strong unions and bargaining rights and make work pay again

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  14. Sep 11

    With only weeks to go until a Brexit deal has to be agreed, no answers from the Chancellor today on what a no deal Brexit would mean for jobs, wages and living standards. I call on him to show some leadership and make it clear to his colleagues he will not accept a no deal.

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  15. Sep 10

    Thank you to everyone in Broxtowe who spent Saturday talking with me about our economy. Our economic policies are different: they are for the many and by the many. They will transform people’s lives. I’ll be meeting thousands of you over the next few months. Next stop: Pudsey.

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    Sep 10

    Political education is central to building our capacities and our movement so we can transform society. We are really excited for these sessions at focused on the practice of political education. Tickets:

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    Sep 10

    Labour now has the most anti-racist leader in its history. But exactly at this point it is suggested Labour is institutionally racist? This isn't fighting racism. It's fighting Jeremy Corbyn.

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    Sep 9

    Photos from yesterday’s “road to rebuilding the economy tour” in Broxtowe and me will be going on visits cross length & breadth of Britain, talking with real people about reviving the economy and creating jobs

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    Sep 9

    Last year, Jeremy Corbyn's Labour party put forward a radical manifesto and achieved our biggest increase in vote share since 1945, denying Theresa May a majority. Our mass membership party is working tirelessly to win the next General Election and transform society.

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    Sep 9

    "Johnson is getting exactly what he wants - we need to be ignoring this individual" - Labour chairman wants to talk about the "real problems facing this country" on

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