General Election News
£10 minimum wage if Labour win next election 11 April 2017
Labour’s proposal to raise the minimum wage to £10 per hour by 2020 would boost the income of 5.6 million people, more than 20% of the UK’s workforce.
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has set out plans for a Real Living Wage (RLW) which would replace the National Living Wage (NLW) and would abolish the lower pay rate for under 25s.
According to Politics Home analysis published by Labour shows a full-time worker on the NLW (which is projected to hit £8.75 per hour by 2020) would be £2,500 better off under the RLW plan. A full-time worker under the age of 25 on the lower National Minimum Wage (projected to be £7.75 per hour by 2020) would be £4,500 better off on the RLW rate. Labour’s analysis also claims that areas outside of London and the South East will benefit most from the £10 rate, with more than a quarter of the workforces in Northern Ireland, the East Midlands and Yorkshire and Humber set for a pay rise.
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Prime Minister announces 8 June snap general election 19 April 2017
Prime Minister Theresa May has announced a plan to call a snap general election on 8 June 2017.
The Prime Minister gave a speech outside Number 10 today, saying she had just chaired a meeting of the cabinet, where they agreed that the government should call a general election, to be held on 8 June.
The PM went on to say that at this moment of enormous national significance (leaving the EU) there should be unity in Westminster, but instead there is division. The country is coming together, but Westminster is not. The PM also said that this is the right approach and it is in the national interest, but the other political parties oppose it.
Theresa May said,
"If we do not hold a general election now their political game-playing will continue, and the negotiations with the European Union will reach their most difficult stage in the run-up to the next scheduled election. Division in Westminster will risk our ability to make a success of Brexit and it will cause damaging uncertainty and instability to the country. So we need a general election and we need one now, because we have at this moment a one-off chance to get this done while the European Union agrees its negotiating position and before the detailed talks begin.”
Tomorrow the PM will move a motion in the House of Commons calling for a general election to be held on 8 June which will require a two-thirds majority of the House of Commons.
You can read the statement that Theresa May made, in full, on BBC News .
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8 June general election confirmed 20 April 2017
Britain will go to the polls on 8 June after MPs backed Theresa May's call for a snap general election.
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