Latest editorial
A sign outside a polling station in central Westminster, London
THE Tories’ Elections Bill poses a “serious threat” to the fairness of all future votes in Britain, a former electoral commissioner has warned.
Writing for political website openDemocracy, Professor David Howarth, electoral commissioner between 2010 and 2018, said that he was appalled by the government’s plan to reduce the independence of the watchdog.
Ministers face mounting pressure to drop the proposed legislation, set to return to Parliament this week, as an increasing number of organisations and figures condemn it as a “power grab.”
The unions are unhappy with the Employment Rights Act 2025 and with good reason. KEITH EWING and Lord JOHN HENDY KC take a close look at why the Bill promised more than it delivered
It is only trade union power at work that will materially improve the lot of working people as a class but without sector-wide collective bargaining and a right to take sympathetic strike action, we are hamstrung in the fight to tilt back the balance of power, argues ADRIAN WEIR
From Gaza complicity to welfare cuts chaos, Starmer’s baggage accumulates, and voters will indeed find ‘somewhere else’ to go — to the Greens, nationalists, Lib Dems, Reform UK or a new, working-class left party, writes NICK WRIGHT