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Jeremy Corbyn is expected to promise that a Labour government would tackle discrimination by forcing all but the smallest firms to carry out compulsory pay audits of their staff, as he launches his campaign for re-election as party leader on Thursday. Jeremy Corbyn is expected to promise that a Labour government would tackle discrimination by forcing all but the smallest companies to carry out compulsory pay audits of their staff, when he launches his campaign for re-election as party leader on Thursday.
Labour is keen to show that Corbyn and his shadow cabinet, which has been diminished by scores of resignations since the EU referendum last month, can still produce radical new policies. His team have been stung by accusations from his rival Owen Smith that he has failed to turn slogans into concrete plans. Labour is keen to show that Corbyn and his shadow cabinet, which has been diminished by scores of resignations since the EU referendum last month, can still produce radical policies. Corbyn’s team have been stung by accusations from his leadership rival, Owen Smith, that he has failed to turn slogans into concrete plans.
David Cameron’s government introduced compulsory pay audits for companies with more than 250 staff in order to show whether or not they are discriminating against female employees.
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David Cameron’s government introduced compulsory pay audits for firms with over 250 staff, to reveal whether they are discriminating against female employees. Corbyn is expected to say a future Labour government would extend this policy to every company with at least 21 employees and to cover other potentially disadvantaged groups, including disabled people and those from minority ethnic backgrounds.
Corbyn is expected to say a future Labour government would extend that policy to every firm with at least 21 staff; and to cover other potentially disadvantaged groups, including disabled people and employees from ethnic minority backgrounds. In a speech in London, as he formally launches his campaign for re-election, Corbyn will say he wants to update the social reformer William Beveridge’s “five evils” for the 21st century and plans to announce policies over the next five months to tackle each of them, the first being discrimination.
In a speech in London as he formally launches his campaign against his challenger, Corbyn is expected to say he wants to update social reformer William Beveridge’s “five evils”, for the 21st century – and plans to announce policies over the next five months to tackle each of them, with the first being “discrimination”. “The injustices that scar society today are not those of 1945: want, squalor, idleness, disease and ignorance. And they have changed since I first entered parliament in 1983. Today, what is holding people back above all are inequality, neglect, insecurity, prejudice and discrimination,” he is expected to say.
“The injustices that scar society today are not those of 1945: want, squalor, idleness, disease and ignorance. And they have changed since I first entered parliament in 1983. Today what is holding people back above all are inequality, neglect, insecurity, prejudice and discrimination,” he is expected to say. “In my campaign I want to confront all five of those ills head on … Setting out not only how Labour will campaign against these injustices in opposition, but also spelling out some of the measures the next Labour government will take to overcome them and move decisively towards a society in which opportunity and prosperity is truly shared.”
“In my campaign I want to confront all five of those ills head on … setting out, not only how Labour will campaign against these injustices in opposition, but also spelling out some of the measures the next Labour government will take to overcome them and move decisively towards a society in which opportunity and prosperity is truly shared.” He is expected to say that, decades on from the 1970 Equal Pay Act, “women are over-represented in the lowest-paying sectors: cleaning, catering and caring – vital sectors of our economy, doing valuable work, but not work that is fairly rewarded or equally respected”.
Related: Owen Smith 'furious' at Corbyn's performance against Theresa May The Labour MP Gisela Stuart, a leading figure in the campaign to leave the EU, told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme she was genuinely torn between Smith and Corbyn. She said she did not believe that Corbyn had the right ideas to be leader, but did not agree with Smith that the UK should have a second referendum on EU membership.
He is expected to say that 65 years on from the Equal Pay Act, “women are over-represented in the lowest paying sectors: cleaning, catering and caring – vital sectors of our economy, doing valuable work, but not work that is fairly rewarded or equally respected”. “This may be the first time when I have to very seriously look at the ballot paper, I genuinely do not know what I will do,” she said, adding that neither candidate really spoke to “people like me who think we ought to accept the outcome of the referendum”.
Corbyn’s launch, the first of a series of campaign events over the summer as the two men go head to head over the future of their party, takes place against the background of a bitter row within Labour about the ground rules for the race, with at least two legal challenges underway. “Our Labour heartlands at the moment are looking towards Ukip, which is so dangerous. I have to have conversations with Owen Smith and say a second referendum is not the answer. The Labour party at the moment is like Bertolt Brecht: ‘Would it not be better to dismiss the people and elect another?’ We have to reflect what our voters want, which is greater cohesion and greater control,” Stuart said.
New members who have joined since January have not been allowed to vote; and supporters wishing to sign up to be involved had to pay £25. Labour announced on Wednesday that more than 180,000 had chosen to do so. Related: I’m challenging Labour’s £25 leadership vote fee – here’s why | Joshua Steele
Labour’s membership has drastically expanded, to more than 500,000, since Corbyn swept to the leadership last autumn; but more than 80% of the party’s MPs recently declined to back him in a vote of no confidence, and many have resigned from the front bench, complaining about weak leadership. Corbyn, she said, had also to address these problems. “I haven’t seen them so far and I know that if you want coherent policies, you don’t just write them overnight,” Stuart said. “Jeremy Corbyn also said unremitting immigration was a good thing. What is not a good thing is an immigration policy which has neither the consent of voters nor any ability to influence the numbers – that’s what destroys communities.”
His team announced yesterday that the new Brexit ministry would be shadowed by Emily Thornberry, who is already shadow foreign secretary – one of several frontbenchers now juggling two portfolios. The campaign launch by Corbyn, the first of a series of leadership events over the summer as the two candidates go head to head over the future of their party, takes place against the background of a bitter row within Labour about the ground rules for the race, with at least two legal challenges under way.
Members who have joined Labour since January have not been allowed to vote and supporters wishing to sign up to be involved had to pay £25. On Wednesday, Labour announced that more than 180,000 had chosen to do so.
Labour’s membership has drastically expanded to more than 500,000 since Corbyn swept to the leadership last autumn, but more than 80% of the party’s MPs recently declined to support him in a vote of no confidence and many have resigned from the frontbench, complaining about weak leadership.
His team announced on Wednesday that the new government ministry responsible for Brexit would be shadowed by Emily Thornberry, the shadow foreign secretary, making her one of several frontbenchers juggling two portfolios.