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A cap on how much Labour Party leadership candidates can spend in future elections is to be voted on by the party’s National Executive Committee, deputy leader Harriet Harman has said.

DAVID Cameron’s plans to reform the welfare system by introducing more testing have attracted criticism from mental health charities, who call his views “offensive” and warn of the stress it will cause claimants.

MPs urged to protect elderly and vulnerable by closing loophole

UNITE has hit back at claims by the Confederation of British Industry that millions of British workers cheerfully work unpaid overtime because they are so enthusiastic about their jobs.

The Government this week set out on a “collision course” with six million public sector workers who have been told they should bear the brunt of worsening economic prospects.

IN AN unexpected judgement that dismayed trade unions, the European Court of Justice ruled on Tuesday this week that Swedish unions behaved unlawfully when they took industrial action against a Latvian building company employing workers on lower wages and conditions.

THE Home Office is preparing to send a man back to Burundi even though it does not dispute his claims that he is likely to be killed on his return, Tribune has learned.

MEMBERS of the ruling African National Congress this week voted Thabo Mbeki out of the leadership of their party and replaced him with Jacob Zuma in what was widely seen as the most important conference in its history.