The Labour Party has introduced the Sick Leave and Parental Leave (Covid-19) Bill 2020. The aim of the Bill is to provide for an entitlement for employees to paid leave during periods of illness or injury and to amend the entitlement to leave on grounds of force majeure for parents whose children are unable to […]
Hardly a surprise. There are a few certainties in life: the sun rises in the east, sets in the west, and the Labour Party is always in favour of the next lefty social change thing, whatever that might be. And predictably enough, this time, it’s euthanasia: The Labour Party has thrown its support behind the […]
A former Labour supporter, Tim Stanley, compares the party of Jeremy Corbyn with that of Attlee and Harold Wilson in the Telegraph, asking ‘Why does socialism have to go hand-in-hand with decriminalising abortion?’. Abortion was partially decriminalised by Harold Wilson’s government, in that the Liberal MP David Steel’s 1967 Abortion Act exempted doctors from prosecution […]