After 90 minutes, says Ken Livingstone, it was clear he and Labour’s new defence spokesman didn’t disagree on anything, they both thought it would be wrong for Britain to renew Trident.
Labour reportedly wants to move a £1.2m loan from the scandal-hit Co-op Bank to the trade union-controlled Unity Trust Bank. But could this all be smoke and mirrors?
David Cameron has again said that Unite was choosing Labour’s candidates. By my counting, the union’s been successful in under half of the seats they’ve specifically targeted – not the best success rate…
Gary Gibbon
Ed Miliband side-steps the issue of trade union reform at the Labour conference, but his bigger problem lies in a perception of his party as the “villains” of the economic piece.
Almost a million trade unionists affiliated to Labour would not not vote for the party, according to YouGov polling for Channel 4 News.
The super-rich have seen their wealth soar throughout the recession, according to TUC boss Frances O’Grady. Fair comment, or a bit rich? FactCheck finds out.
The loss of GMB money will not be financially devastating to the Labour party, but there will be a political price to pay for Ed Miliband’s handling of the row over union funding.
David Cameron claims that Labour is “owned” by the Unions, while Labour argues that the Conservative party is bankrolled by “a few millionaires”. FactCheck gets to the bottom of the row.
Will we get a “parliament of toffs” if we refuse to pay MPs more? Or perhaps the rich already dominate the House of Commons… How much do we really know about the background of the people who represent us?
The battle to select a candidate for the safe Labour seat of Falkirk is getting nastier, with Ed Miliband, Len McCluskey and Tom Watson all embroiled.
There are four jobseekers competing for every vacancy, according to one of Britain’s biggest unions. But are things getting better or worse? FactCheck finds out.
An “administrative error” leads to the home office advertising for 400 more jobs than they had intended to, on the day of an ongoing row between the unions and the department in which strike action was narrowly averted. FactCheck investigates.
FactCheck Q&A on the new deal for public sector pensions – is it any good; who are the winners and losers?
The claim “Is the Prime Minister aware that in the last financial year, taxpayers paid over £113 million to trade unions in terms of paid staff time and direct grants?” Laurence Robertson, 30 November 2011 “I think the idea of full-time trade unionists, working in the public sector on trade union business rather than serving…
Gary Gibbon
The war of competing numbers on the effect of the one-day strike of public sector workers is just the beginning of the battle for support between Government and unions, writes Gary Gibbon.