Diane Abbott, the UK's longest-serving Black female MP, re-suspended by the Labour Party following her reaffirmation of controversial remarks on racism.

"But that doesn't mean that I'm silenced," she told BBC Breakfast, adding that she did not believe the prime minister had "got it right". "If my constituents are telling me something, I want to be able to advocate," she said.

Labour rights have deteriorated sharply in the global south as well as in Europe and the US. Only seven out of 151 countries surveyed for this annual index were seen upholding worker rights. Elsewhere,

Local labour advocates are asking the National Hockey League (NHL) to right what they call a historic wrong when the league punished the city's NHL team for going on strike in 1925.

Work is underway looking at the devolution of probation and youth justice, the Welsh government's senior legal advisor has insisted after a UK minister played down the prospect. Prisons minister Lord Timpson said on Monday it was not "a priority" to devolve either probation or youth justice.

There are parallels between the political conditions which faced Harold Wilson and Sir Keir Starmer’s current challenges.

London's main stock indexes rose on Thursday, as signs of a cooling labour market assured investors that the Bank of England would likely cut interest rates by August.

As fresh details of the controversy emerged on Thursday, free speech campaigners said the use of the courts to prevent the public from knowing about the security breach, and subsequent secret asylum scheme, should never be repeated.