The Guardian – Reeves pledges to close gender pay gap ‘once and for all’ if Labour wins
Labour’s Rachel Reeves has told The Guardian that she would end the gender pay gap “once and for all” if the party wins the election. In an interview with the Guardian, the shadow chancellor said she wanted to shatter the “last glass ceiling in politics” and felt a “big responsibility” to use the Treasury to improve the position of women across the UK, including by making sure they were properly rewarded at work.
Elsewhere, the front page features an image of Kim and Putin walking a red carpet together – noting the mutal defence pact the two have signed has sparked alarm.
A protection officer to the PM has been quizzed in relation to election betting.
(Today’s news summary – Paper Talk)
- Rachel Reeves vows to close gender pay gap ‘once and for all’ if she is chancellor. A Labour government would make flexible working the default from day one for all workers, except where it is not reasonably feasible, while big companies with more than 250 staff would be required to publish, and then bring in, action plans to close the gender pay gap.[https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jun/19/rachel-reeves-vows-close-gender-pay-gap-chancellor]
- Putin arrives in Vietnam for state visit condemned by US. The Russian president’s plane touched down at Hanoi airport where he was met on a red carpet by Vietnamese deputy prime minister Tran Hong Ha and top party diplomat Le Hoai Trung.[https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/20/vladimir-putin-vietnam-state-visit]
- Use Euro 2028 to celebrate black footballers, say British pioneers. In a letter published in the Guardian on Thursday, Viv Anderson, Brendon Batson, Clyde Best and a host of former professionals who were the first black players at their clubs, have called for a moment of commemoration that will use “the game’s unique power” to bring people together.[https://www.theguardian.com/football/article/2024/jun/20/use-euro-2028-to-celebrate-black-footballers-say-british-pioneers]
- Two people arrested after activists spray private jets with paint at Stansted. Two activists, Jennifer Kowalski, 28, a former sustainability manager from Dumbarton, and Cole Macdonald, 22, from Brighton, broke into a private airfield in Stansted at 5am on Thursday before targeting the jet.[https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jun/20/activists-spray-planes-with-paint-at-uk-airfield-where-taylor-swift-jet-landed]
