Jeremy Corbyn: All Labour party staff to be paid living wage of at least £10 an hour
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Every Labour party member of staff is to be paid a living wage of at least £10 an hour, Jeremy Corbyn has announced.
The Labour leader said the move was an example of the "bold action" needed to put more money in people's pockets.
In their general election manifesto last year, the party vowed to introduce a £10-an-hour living wage for the whole country by 2020.
Addressing the annual conference of the GMB union in Brighton today, Mr Corbyn will say: "That is why today I am announcing that the Labour party under our new general secretary Jennie Formby is committing to pay all of our staff, at any level of our organisation, no less than £10 an hour."
Elswehere in his speech, the Labour leader will accuse Theresa May of being "too weak" to stand up to Donald Trump over his decision to introduce tariffs on steel imported into America.
The Prime Minister has said she is "disappointed" by the move, but stopped short of directly criticising the American president.
Mr Corbyn will accuse her of not wanting to offend President Trump in the hope that the UK will be able to strike a trade deal with the United States after Brexit.
"Empowering people and standing up for the many, not the few is what the labour movement is all about," he will say. "But the Tory Government’s timid response shamefully fails to stand up to Trump.
"We’ve now seen it time and time again. Theresa May and her government were too weak to stand up to Trump over the Muslim ban, or his promotion of the disgusting Britain First, or his plunging the future of the planet into ever greater danger by pulling out of the Paris Climate Change Accord, or his punitive tariffs on Bombardier, or his ripping up of the Iran nuclear deal, or his reckless threat to peace by recognising Jerusalem, including occupied Palestinian territory, as Israel’s capital.
"The Tories are too weak to stand up to the powerful, and too in hock to them even if they wanted to. Theresa May is appeasing Donald Trump in the hope of getting a race-to-the-bottom trade deal with the US after we leave the European Union. The Trump trade tariffs show that’s a Tory pipe-dream."
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