Corbyn provokes anger from Labour critics with NY message glossing over impact of election defeat – live news
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The Labour MP Gareth Thomas also seems unimpressed by Jeremy Corbyn’s New Year’s message.
After a dismal decade for @UKLabour :- 4 election defeats ending with our lowest no of MPs since 1935, here’s hoping the next decade sees no more wild, multi-billion pound ‘fully costed’ manifestos, an end to antisemitism & a Leader who thinks winning is better than opposition
“But why no mention of the General Election Jeremy?” JC: “What General Election?” That’s one way to do a review! https://t.co/4c36HLO1pI
The Scottish government has said that the increase in the national living wage announced today (see 9.53am) does not go far enough. This is from Jamie Hepburn, its fair work minister, who says the Scottish government urges organisations to pay the voluntary Living Wage Foundation’s living wage instead.
While I welcome any increase to workers’ hourly rate of pay, the increases announced today, following a decade of UK government austerity, do not go far enough.
The UK national living wage is still not a real living wage – even for those who will receive the full rate – and it cannot be right that workers aged 18 to 25 receive a lower rate of pay.