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Jan 26 (Reuters) - Vacancies for jobs in Britain continued to fall in December and the pace of increases in advertised salaries slowed, according to a survey on Monday that added to signs of a cooling labour market.
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s governing Labour Party slipped behind the main opposition Conservative Party in Bloomberg’s composite poll for the first time since the July 2024 general election.
The split between private and public sector pay became starker in the latest data; public sector pay growth rose to 7.9 per cent, the highest level since the start of 2001. Private sector pay growth, meanwhile, dropped to 3.6 per cent, the lowest figure since the end of 2020.
Labour’s powerful ruling body ‘calls for pause in Burnham by-election decision over stitch-up fears’ - Labour's governing National Executive Committee is embroiled in a furious row over whether to all
(Bloomberg) -- Prime Minister Keir Starmer has lost the support of wealthy voters who helped his Labour Party secure a historic majority in last year’s UK general election, according to a new survey that lays bare the seven month-old government’s ...
The UK Labour government under Sir Keir Starmer and Home Secretary Yvette Cooper is continuing to ramp up its brutal assault on migrants and asylum seekers, escalating from where its Conservative predecessor left off. On December 1, the Observer reported ...
The UK’s Labour Party-controlled government has approved plans for China to build a sprawling new embassy complex in central London, despite warnings from lawmakers, security officials, and Chinese dissidents who say the project poses serious national security risks.
(Bloomberg) -- The UK Labour government said it would save billions of pounds a year by slashing welfare spending, unveiling controversial reforms which have provoked criticism from disability campaigners and divided Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s ...
There were an estimated 155,000 working days lost because of labour disputes across the UK in November 2025. This is the highest number of working days lost since January 2024, with over half of working days lost in the health and social work sector because of the doctors' strikes in England.