Amy Gibbons
Political Correspondent at The Telegraph
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1 week ago |
telegraph.co.uk | Amy Gibbons |Dominic Penna
Union bosses suggested John Cotton, the council leader, should either offer bin workers significantly improved terms or step down from his role. Speaking to the BBC, Mr Cotton said the council was "in a position where nobody needs to be losing income" as a result of phasing out the waste recycling collection and officer role. However, Unite claims as many as 200 employees could lose up to £8,000 from their pay. Sharon Graham, the Unite leader, said: "We appear to be in a parallel universe.
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1 week ago |
ca.news.yahoo.com | Amy Gibbons
Michael Gove is set to receive a peerage in Rishi Sunak’s resignation honours list, according to reports. The former Tory Cabinet minister, who now edits The Spectator magazine, will be appointed to the House of Lords along with a handful of ex-colleagues, it emerged on Thursday. Mr Gove, who stepped down as an MP after nearly 20 years last summer, is one of the most high-profile Tory figures of recent times, having held a string of top level jobs under four prime ministers.
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2 weeks ago |
aol.co.uk | Amy Gibbons
Angela Rayner has pleaded with union leaders to end the Birmingham bin strikes. The Deputy Prime Minister urged Unite, one of Labour’s biggest donors, to accept the council’s latest offer and stop causing “misery” for residents. Mountains of waste have been piling up on the streets of England’s second city after hundreds of Unite members walked out in a row with the Labour-run local authority last month.
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2 weeks ago |
ca.news.yahoo.com | Amy Gibbons
Liam Byrne (R) meeting Takeuchi Shinji, the parliamentary vice-minister of economy, trade and industry in Tokyo - X.com/METI_JPNA senior Labour MP has been accused of abandoning his constituents by taking a luxury trip to Japan during the Birmingham bin crisis. Liam Byrne, the MP for Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North, flew to Tokyo with the House of Commons business committee two weeks after the strikes broke out.
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2 weeks ago |
telegraph.co.uk | Amy Gibbons
A senior Labour MP has been accused of abandoning his constituents by taking a luxury trip to Japan during the Birmingham bin crisis. Liam Byrne, the MP for Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North, flew to Tokyo with the House of Commons business committee two weeks after the strikes broke out. He is then thought to have extended his stay for a personal holiday last week, as Birmingham residents complained of rats as big as cats plaguing the city's streets.
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