Trade unions and social activism

Tony Blair got David Cameron’s permission for a series of 2011 phone calls to Colonel Gaddafi warning him to leave Libya before bombing started, the former prime minister has said.

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Lecturers have come out in support of a students’ mass protest at the London Metropolitan university’s east London arts campus at Whitechapel.

The European Commission has confirmed that the UK Government could have given state aid support to Redcar steelworks. In response to a written question from Euro MP for the North East Jude Kirton-Darling they state there are a wide range of reasons that state aid can be given to industries. The Redcar plant stopped production in September in a move which has devastated workers and the whole community. There were calls for the UK Government to act to support the steelworks but no help was provided.

Retail giant Next has been criticised for poor treatment of its apprentices.

A Channel 4 Dispatches programme last night claimed the chain had slashed £2.5m off its wage bill by employing hundreds of low-earning apprentices, while giving them inadequate training in return.

MPs have rejected a call for 16 and 17-year-olds to be given a vote in the EU referendum, prompting accusations of a “missed opportunity” from the SNP. A Lords amendment to the legislation bringing in the poll was defeated by 303 to 253, a majority of 50. Stephen Gethins, the SNP’s spokesman on European affairs,... Read Full Story

National Association of Head Teachers says a survey shows some schools are having to pay £10,000 to fill a single vacancy.

Ukip leader caught making false claims about ethnic minority voters in Oldham

Police are investigating two MPs over their taxpayer-funded expenses. A Met Police spokesman has confirmed that it is investigating two cases referred to it by the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA) - which oversees MPs' expenses - in March this year.

A Maoist cult leader who ran a commune is found guilty of a string of sex assaults, cruelty to a child and false imprisonment.

Cambridge scholar Mary Beard has praised Jeremy Corbyn for behaving with a “considerable degree of dignity” against claims he faces an overly hostile media.

Labour are today using International Human Rights Day to pressure the Government into a u-turn on their plans to scrap the Human Rights Act.

Emanuel has faced criticism after the release of a dashcam video that showed the police shooting death of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald.

There’s one thing above all you should know about Brexit before you decide how to vote: the contents of Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty. The full text is below. “It’s a real horror—and no one outside the negotiations really knows about it,” said one senior official to me.

Clause 4 says that after a country has decided to leave, the other EU members will decide the terms—and the country leaving cannot be in the room in those discussions. Repeat: we’d have no say at all on the terms on which we’d deal with the EU from then on, and no opportunity to reconsider.

A senior government minister has launched an attack on the BBC’s Newsnight for conducting a “witch-hunt” against the Tory chairman Lord Feldman, after it reported that he was given a dossier five years ago containing allegations of bullying in the party’s youth wing.

Tory chairman Lord Feldman is facing fresh calls to resign amid claims he was handed a dossier detailing a culture of bullying within the Conservative Party'...

Holyrood views Westminster bill as crackdown on workers’ rights and insists that MSPs’ consent is required to pass it

Downing Street denies the claim saying the 70,000 figure used by ministers came from the Joint Intelligence Committee.

Polls show opposition stands to win majority over President Nicolás Maduro in weekend parliamentary election amid grim rates of inflation and crime

There has been a sharp rise in executions in Saudi Arabia since August 2014, as Caroline Hawley reports.