Trades Union Congress

Health Secretary Victoria Atkins spends her last hours in the job not doing it. She should have been trying to solve the eleventh hospital doctors’ strike that started yesterday. Instead, she flitted round the “spin room” of a TV studio in…

More than seven million workers would benefit from Labour's day-one sick pay boost - avoiding a “financial cliff-edge” for getting ill. It comes as Deputy Labour Leader Angela Rayner set out fresh details of the party’s plan to ‘make work…

It isn’t just a building. For generations, it has been the beating heart of trade unionism in Britain. Historic events, such as the emotional end of the miners Strike For Jobs in 1985, took place within its walls.Outside, a giant bronze…

Rishi Sunak has been branded "out of touch" after saying he went without lots of things as a kid - including Sky TV. In an excruciating interview with ITV the PM, who attended one of the country's most expensive boarding schools, was…

Official figures showed the UK economy recorded no growth in April in another blow to Rishi Sunak's General Election campaign. It comes less than 24 hours after the PM again insisted the economy "has turned a corner" as he launched his…

Tory ministers have been accused of "distracting voters" from their failings with plans for skills "bootcamps" for people on unemployment benefits.Work and Pensions Secretary Mel Stride announced plans today to give benefit claimants…

Families are still having to cut back on their spending despite the Tories gloating that the cost of living crisis is ending, a poll has found.Just one in seven people feel their living standards are improving this year as many fall behind…

Keir Starmer has averted a row with union leaders over Labour's flagship workers' rights reforms. Tensions had been rising over whether the radical package risked being scaled back amid pressure from business groups. In three-hours of…

Multi-multi-millionaire Rishi Sunak lecturing hard-up folk that they’ll never have it so good with him is a haughty, out-of-touch Prime Minister reinforcing why the UK Conservatives deserve to lose the general election.Britain’s richest…

The boss of scandal-hit P&O Ferries has admitted he couldn’t live on the £4.87 an hour some of its workers are paid.Peter Hebblethwaite appeared before MPs nearly two years on from when it controversially fired 786 crew and replaced…