Welcome to Monday’s photo highlights of our delegates at the Labour Party conference.
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Mythbuster: the budget
Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng’s vision for Britain’s economic future immediately proved to be a very dangerous fantasy. We explain why
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‘Every single person’s vote should matter’
Unite delegate Jessie Jacobs made a powerful contribution to a debate on electoral reform at the Labour party conference on Monday (September 26). Speaking in support of a motion on changing the voting system for general elections, Jessie said that her union Unite “recognises and agrees that we need electoral reform and we must oppose […]
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‘Labour must deliver on equalities’
Unite delegate Jane Taylor called for bold action on equalities as she moved a composite motion at Labour Party conference on Monday (September 26). Addressing conference, Jane said that “income and wealth inequality has deepened in this country and here I am talking about it again”. “What on earth is wrong with us that we […]
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Unite at #LPC22 – Day 1
Welcome to UNITElive’s coverage of this year’s Labour Party conference, Sunday September 25 to Wednesday September 28, in Liverpool. Tune in every day on UNITElive for full coverage of Unite’s delegates at the Labour Party conference. Below is a round-up in pictures of the first day of conference on Sunday, September 25. Pics by Mark […]
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Renationalise energy and no more budgets for the rich
Yesterday, (September 25) Unite’s general secretary Sharon Graham told delegates at Unite’s Scottish policy conference, that ScottishPower’s ‘eyewatering’ £7bn in dividends to its Spanish owners, reveals the need to renationalise energy and proves that a budget benefitting the rich will not work. In the last year a Unite investigation has revealed that 13 per of […]
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‘Corporate greed has created this crisis’
Unite’s head of operations Gail Cartmail moved a motion on the economy on the second day of Labour Party conference on Monday (September 26). You can watch a clip of her speech in the video below:
Film by Martin Scanlon
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Genuine living wage and public service investment show why Labour should be in government
Pledges will shape decent society and fuel the economy
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Arriva workers in pay win
Strikes impacting Arriva services in Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire have been called off after around 900 workers accepted a ‘vastly improved’ pay offer. The workers have accepted a deal which will see drivers’ pay lifted by 11.1 per cent in Hertfordshire and by 10.4 per cent in Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire. Previously Arriva had been offering […]
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‘Profits should benefit society as a whole’
Unite delegate and Royal Mail worker Gary Sassoon-Hales spoke passionately in support of a motion on bringing the Royal Mail back under public ownership at the Labour party conference on Monday (September 26). The motion highlighted a disturbing revelation surrounding a possible takeover of Royal Mail by a foreign equity firm and noted that any […]
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Government handing taxpayers’ money to rich friends, while public services suffer
Best thing for working people in this country is to elect a Labour government
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‘We are winning’
Unite’s executive head of operations Gail Cartmail highlighted how Unite is fighting back against bad employers and the government’s attack on workers on the second day of the Labour Party conference on Monday (September 26). She moved a motion in debate on growing challenges in our economy, which called on Labour to take effective measures […]
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‘Trickle down’ economics will fail
As Labour conference began on Sunday (September 25) Unite general secretary Sharon Graham said the party must be far more bold to make the ‘clear blue water ‘ that now exists between them and the Truss government count. Graham, who spoke at Unite’s Scottish Policy conference on Sunday, also told Unite members in Scotland that […]
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Sorry? Not sorry? Labour responds to Forde allegation 6…
On the day that Black members of the Labour Party were due to hold a protest outside Conference this afternoon about the failure of the Party to acknowledge the findings of the Forde report in respect of allegations six, the Party finally published onl…Read more…
‘Labour must step up’
Unite delegate and chair of the Labour Party National Women’s Committee Ruth Hayes moved a motion on violence against women and girls on the first day of the Labour Party Conference on Sunday (September 25). Urging conference to read the motion from Labour’s Women Conference in full, Ruth highlighted how “over a decade of Tory […]
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Labour Party Conference 2022 – Sunday Morning
Following the London reception yesterday evening I had a (non keto) pizza with UNISON colleagues then a relatively early night. Up for a early morning run along the Mersey, back for breakfast then UNISON delegation meeting at 9.30am.Conference started …Read more…
The country needs a transformative Labour government
Meaningful policies will have a real impact for public service workers
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“A Fresh Start with Labour” ‘Lab22 Conference
Labour Party annual conference starts tomorrow but I came down today to Liverpool to attend the London Labour Evening Reception and be ready as a UNISON Labour Link delegate for our first pre conference meeting early tomorrow morning. At the…Read more…
Democracy and the rights of members in the Party and the trade unions
I can thoroughly recommend Al Jazeera’s “The Labour Files” the first episode of which is now available online.Having lived through what happened in Brighton and Hove Labour Party over recent years, I can vouch for the honesty and integrity of many of t…Read more…
Review: Lady Killer, by Ed McBain
This, the eighth book in the legendary 87th Precinct series, was written over the course of just nine days, according to author Ed McBain. It’s a concise, tense account of just a few hours in…Read more…