Hardline bosses at the Sellafield nuclear reprocessing plant are turning the screw on the workforce, as they have banned workplace meetings to discuss the current pay dispute, Unite, the country’s largest union, said.

Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has announced a new Supplementary Planning Guidance (SPG) for London which aims to deliver faster planning permissions by bypassing burdensome viability assessments.

Britain is on course to face the worst decade for household incomes since the 1940s, according to Labour.

William Hague has compared Brexit to taking “control of a gun” – and warned the Government not to “shoot its foot off” by failing to maintain close ties with the EU.  

We all know that Britain has a 'traditional outlook' when it comes to housebuilding: aside from a few modernisations, we have built more or less in the same way for hundreds of years.

The next phase of Brexit talks may be delayed until Christmas, according to reports.

Businesses and senior politicians have cast doubt on the Government's vow that Brexit will not mean a return to a hard border between the Republic and Northern Ireland.

EU citizens will be able to continue to move freely from the Republic of Ireland into the UK after Brexit, the Government has admitted.

The Road Haulage Association has expressed reservations after the government has said it does not want any border posts between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland in its new position paper on Brexit - it suggests a ‘new customs partnership’ or a ‘highly streamlined customs arrangement’.

Families are struggling because the Government and greedy employers either don't care or like the system the way it is.

The unemployment rate fell to its lowest level since 1975 in the last quarter, but wages continued to lag behind inflation.

We will continue to do everything possible to fight our members' corner, says GMB

Cabinet splits on a post-Brexit transition deal with the European Union have reopened after Liam Fox and Boris Johnson called for a customs pact to be in place for no longer than a year. 

Brexit Secretary David Davis's former chief of staff is to lead a new pro-EU political party, it has been confirmed.

Brexit will not mean "a return to the border posts of the past" between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, the Government has insisted.

Graeme Swan, Government and Public Sector partner at EY, has commented on today's Customs Union announcement.

Road Haulage Association director of policy and public affairs Rod McKenzie who was in Downing Street for the announcement said: “Ministers said the plans would mean the ‘free-est and most frictionless possible trade’ with Europe. This could include a ‘temporary customs union’ after Brexit to prevent border problems.”

Labour’s position on Brexit has been thrown into further confusion after a senior frontbencher repeatedly refused to clarify his party’s position.

A top Brussels official has dismissed the UK Government's plans to strike a "temporary" customs deal with the EU after Brexit as "a fantasy".

Royal Bank of Scotland has today (Tuesday 15 August) told staff that it will be cutting a further 40 per cent of permanent staff from its London IT function by 2020. 

Unite general secretary Len McCluskey has commented on the latest inflation figures released today.

There are going to be redundancies, but we are very confident these can be reduced significantly from the thousands initially feared.

David Davis’s former chief of staff has launched a scathing attack on the Brexit Secretary, accusing him of only working a three-day week and "leering" over Labour frontbencher Diane Abbott. 

The UK will try to strike a “temporary” customs union with the European Union immediately after Brexit, it has been announced.