Wednesday, October 30, 2024

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Rachel Reeves pledges significant investment in the lead up to today's Budget, Robert Jenrick is criticised for his "offensive" comments on British colonialism and Afghan women are banned from being able to hear each other pray.

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1| Rachel Reeves pledges to 'invest, invest, invest' ahead of historic Labour Budget

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2 | Fury at Jenrick's 'deeply offensive' comments on former British colonies

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3 | Afghan women 'banned from hearing each other' in bizarre Taliban rule

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4 | This is Kamala Harris's last chance – it's time to 'go high'

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5 | Woman dies after backing into a plane propeller at airfield

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Who are the working people that should be protected by Labour's Budget?

By "working class," I would mean the proletariat—those for whom if you don't work, you don't survive—and "work" cannot be a hobby. You work to live, not live to work. You don't get paid for what you'd be doing regardless. It's useful to have a definition of the working poor: those who work to live and perform the least desirable jobs for low pay.

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STAT OF THE DAY

£12.21

This is set to become the new minimum wage as part of Rachel Reeves' autumn budget, amounting to an extra £1,400 annually for the lowest paid

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QUOTE OF THE DAY

"Deeply offensive and an obnoxious distortion of history."

The response of Labour MP Bell Ribeiro-Addy to Robert Jenrick's claim that Britain's former colonies "owe us a debt of gratitude".

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