Backbench MPs hit out against Labour's winter fuel allowance cuts

BACK-BENCH MPs continued to grill the government over means-testing the winter fuel allowance today amid fears many pensioners will miss the deadli

Post Office's ‘malignant culture’ and ‘bored’ chief destroyed lives, inquiry hears

THE POST OFFICE’S “malignant culture” destroyed the lives of the victims of the Horizon IT scandal, not the system, an inquiry heard today.

Royal Mail sale to Czech billionaire is best chance for renationalisation, CWU says

GOVERNMENT approval of Royal Mail’s sale to Czech billionaire Daniel Kretinsky offers the best hope for renationalising the historic postal service

Teachers sing strikers' carol outside Rachel Reeves' office

TEACHERS striking over pay sang a Christmas carol outside Chancellor Rachel Reeves’s constituency office in Leeds today.

MPs back disability activist calls for public inquiry into DWP deaths

MPs have joined disability activists calling for a public inquiry into deaths linked to the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).

Teaching unions call for real-terms pay cuts to be reversed

TEACHING unions have called for real-terms pay cuts to be reversed after the Department for Education claimed that a below-inflation 2.8 per cent p

Watchdog fines Royal Mail £10.5m as CWU warns service run-down is ‘deliberate’

ROYAL MAIL’S £10.5 million fine for missing its postal delivery targets in 2023/24 is the “direct result of the deliberate and sustained dismantlin

Israel is systematically killing healthcare workers and journalists, doctors warn

‘Tidal wave’ of flu hitting hospitals as NHS nears ‘crisis point’

NHS England warned yesterday of a “tidal wave of flu hitting hospitals” after the number of beds occupied by flu patients rose by 70 per cent in a

Teachers and NHS workers' unions ‘put the government on notice’ over below-inflation pay rises