Minimum wage

Gordon Brown joined forces with Angela Rayner to make one last plea for your vote - promising the next Labour government would do "even better things" than New Labour did 20 years ago. "The best is yet to be," Mr Brown, Labour's last PM,…

Darren Jones could be about to complete the journey from growing up in a council flat to a seat around the Cabinet table.But there is one thing that annoys him - when people say: “difficult upbringing, haven't you done well?” “I get deeply…

It is a bold political strategy to say 'don't vote for the other team - they might get ELECTED'.It's even braver to suggest that, once in power, your opponent might actually CHANGE stuff. It merely proves that, even when you're about to…

Nigel Farage was left 'rattled' during a 'car crash' interview on Good Morning Britain - and viewers were wincing. The Reform UK leader faced a heated grilling from presenters Susanna Reid and Ed Balls as he desperately tried to clarify…

I know the difference Labour in power can make. As a young mum in the 1990s, it was a Labour Government that transformed my life. When I most needed it, that support meant I could go out and find the job that I built a life upon for me and…

Ministers have spent £900,000 with P&O Ferries within the two years because the mass firing scandal that noticed the agency’s behaviour branded “appalling” by the Government. On the anniversary of the scandal, which noticed lots of of…

Mothers are going again to work early, skipping meals or slicing again on heating on account of stingy maternity pay, ministers have been warned.A survey for Unison by Maternity Action discovered girls had been making "drastic" selections…

Thousands of supply drivers from Deliveroo, Uber Eats and Just Eat are staging a mass walkout this Valentine’s Day, amid ongoing disputes over pay and dealing circumstances.The strike, which is able to final between 5pm and 10pm, has been…

Rishi Sunak's chaotic premiership could also be in its last months, if polls are to be believed.But whereas he is in No10, there's nonetheless time for his Government to push by way of new legal guidelines which might have a huge effect on…

Labour has pledged to crackdown on "unscrupulous" employers who fail to pay care staff for time spent travelling on the job.It comes amid warnings hundreds of care workers battling the cost-of-living disaster are lacking out on a whole…