All articles by: Keith Richmond

Critics have urged the Conservative-led coalition to act after it was revealed that three of Britain’s biggest privatised water companies pay little or no tax on their enormous profits while …

Two controversial new developments in the nuclear industry have caused critics of the Conservative-led coalition to call into question whether the Tories and their Liberal Democrat allies are being honest …

The Conservative-led coalition has been accused of being inconsistent in the way it deals with other countries over human rights

The scale of the problems caused by the Conservative-led coalition’s public sector cuts – and the difficulties caused by New Labour’s controversial and much-criticised Private Finance Initiative in the National …

Andy Burnham, the Shadow Health Secretary, was cheered to the rafters when he promised to reverse the Conservative-led coalition’s privatisation of the National Health Service if the party wins the …

The Progress rally, held by the right-wing pressure group in the basement of the Comedy Store, underneath the railway arches by the side of the canal at Deansgate Locks, was …

Teachers have condemned the Conservative-led coalition’s proposals to dump GCSEs in favour of an English Baccalaureate as a Back to the Future bid to return to a two-tier education system.

Britain’s biggest construction union has condemned the Conservative-led coalition’s plans to try to kick start the industry with an Infrastructure Financial Assistance Bill, which would allow the Government to underwrite …

Signs that the British economy, as Ed Balls, the Shadow Chancellor, is always quick to tell George Osborne, is flatlining are still coming thick and fast. All the key economic …

Centre-left MPs and union activists, as well as Labour Party officials, are worried by the manoeuvring of Tony Blair, the former Prime Minister, David Miliband, the former Foreign Secretary who …

There was more bad news on the economy for the Conservative-led coalition, and especially the Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, with the latest official figures confirming Labour Party claims …

Thousands of trade union members, grassroots campaigners and labour movement activists are expected to brave the mud and rain this weekend to celebrate the Tolpuddle Martyrs – the six agricultural …

The National Union of Teachers has launched a withering attack on Michael Gove, the Secretary of State for Education, after his plans to reform GCSE examinations were leaked. Christine Blower, …

Financial problems at the South London Healthcare NHS Trust are just the tip of the iceberg, health service professionals have warned. They say the plight of the trust, formed as …

There was more bad news this week as the latest statistics on economic output in Europe underlined the point that austerity measures being imposed by conservative governments on economies across …