I know how important it is to tackle the vicious gangs behind the boats coming across the Channel. Refugees from Afghanistan, Syria and Sudan have told me harrowing stories about their treatment ...

A LABOUR MP has slated his party’s growth agenda saying it “reeks of panic”. In a column for The Guardian, Clive Lewis said plans announced by Chancellor Rachel Reeves earlier this week are “fraught ...

The Nationalist Party had been in government for 25 years, save for a brief two years of a Labour government. It grew tired. After Malta joined the EU, the PN administrations lost the way.

In the weeks and months following Labour’s defeat in the 2023 election, much was made of Hipkins’ fate as leader and the potential for the party to follow the example of previous caucus’ of ...

Not just that, this tide of apparent job creation has managed to push the female labour force participation rate up since 2017-18, reversing the earlier downward trends. PREMIUM A labourer cleans ...

Here are the 25 best rock songs of the last 25 years. While 2000 did not mark the turn of the century, nor the millennium (those counts start at 2001), it did signal a new era. The first decade ...

Ramona Attard, the former Labour Party president, is to be co-opted to parliament, the party said in a statement on Tuesday. Attard’s nomination put forward by Prime Minister Robert Abela was approved ...

Labour MPs have voted to hit grieving families of military personnel with inheritance tax for the first time as part of Rachel Reeves’ raid. Death in service payments – lump sums given to the ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Britain’s Labour government was always going to struggle to balance its pledge to “make work pay” by ...

Payrolled employees fell by 11,000 (0.0%) over the quarter but rose by 134,000 (0.4%) over the year, when looking at September to November 2024. This is the period comparable with our Labour Force ...

Labour Force Survey (LFS) estimates have been affected by increased volatility, resulting from smaller achieved sample sizes, meaning that estimates of change should be treated with additional caution ...

The newly launched labour migration policy will only be effective if the labour market is strengthened through a reduction in public sector employment, more incentives for upskilling and reskilling, ...