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Watch as Sir Keir Starmer addressed the Trades Union Congress (TUC) in Brighton on Tuesday, 10 September, after its president warned that a second wave of austerity will boost the rise of the far right in Britain’s left-behind communities.

Conservative motion to block winter fuel payment cut defeated but 53 Labour MPs abstain and one, Jon Trickett, votes with the Tories

The Prime Minister’s prediction yesterday that his Government “was going to have to be unpopular” on account of withdrawing winter fuel payments from all but the poorest pensioners is coming true sooner than he would have wished. The general secretary of Unite, Sharon Graham, and the head of the TUC,…

Chancellor tells meeting of parliamentary Labour party there will be more difficult decisions to come

TUC and Unite leaders express ‘real concerns’ over policy as many Labour MPs expected to abstain in Commons vote

More than a million workers missed out on the holiday pay they were due last year, according to the union

Employees have lost out on holiday pay worth £2bn, according to new trade union research

There will be joy over Labour’s victory at the trades union congress this week – but also a determination to see that promises are kept

Survey of business decision-makers comes as TUC hits back at corporate lobbying against the proposals