Robert Colville

Fact-check: Will Labour really save the average family £6,700 a year?

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John McDonnell claimed in a speech in Birmingham today that the Labour party’s plans to expand free childcare, cut rail ticket prices, and introduce free prescriptions and free school meals, along with various other measures, would save the average family £6,700 a year. Given how much Labour had allocated for these promises in the costings document

Labour’s four-day week pledge doesn’t add up

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Would you like to be paid the same amount of money for working fewer hours? It sounds like it’s too good to be true. And at least when it comes to the public sector, it very definitely is. At the Labour party conference, John McDonnell announced that the party would, over the course of the

George Galloway was humiliated in London. Hooray!

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It’s rare that an election result leaves you with a sense of giddy, disbelieving glee, but there it was in black and white. Galloway, George, Respect (George Galloway) Party, 37,007 votes. Walker, Sophie, Women’s Equality Party, 53,055 votes. Once you took second preferences into account, Walker and her newly formed feminist movement beat Galloway and