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DAVID CAMERON faced ridicule yesterday after claiming his aim was “full employment” despite overseeing a million public-sector job losses and the longest decline in wages since the 1800s.
The Prime Minister breezed over a five-year reign of swingeing cuts and low pay to declare: “I hope people will stick with this plan.”
At a pre-election rally in Suffolk the Tory leader set out his party’s economic agenda, pledging to cut regulation on businesses, keep “job taxes” low and punish those on welfare by slashing the current £500-a-week benefit cap.
Outsourcing is at the heart of inequality. Only collective unity in the trade union movement can topple the Establishment’s obsession with it, says SAM GURNEY
Labour must not allow unelected members of the upper house to erode a single provision of the Employment Rights Bill, argues ANDY MCDONALD MP
‘People up and down the country are asking whose side is the Labour government on and coming up with the answer: not workers,’ Unite general secretary Sharon Graham says