Labour’s persistent failure to address its electorate’s salient concerns is behind the protest vote, asserts DIANE ABBOTT
THE government is showing increasing enthusiasm for one of its main privatisation contractors, the Mitie Group.
It probably helps that it has a Tory Lord, Baroness Couttie, as a director. Baroness Couttie, also known as Philippa Roe, is currently a Tory whip in the Lords and was a long-running Tory leader of Westminster Council.
Mitie’s government business is growing and the company has won many contracts running Covid-19 testing services. It is also picking up criticism from inspectors.
A recent Immigration Summit heard from Lord Alf Dubs, who fled the Nazis to Britain as a child. JAYDEE SEAFORTH reports on his message that we need to increase public empathy with desperate people seeking asylum
Despite Labour’s promises to bring things ‘in-house,’ the Justice Secretary has awarded notorious outsourcing outfit Mitie a £329 million contract to run a new prison — despite its track record of abuse and neglect in its migrant facilities, reports SOLOMON HUGHES



