What’s coming up in parliament now MPs are back?
These are the big things coming up in the House of Commons
Yearly Archives: 2023
Five ways ‘100% school attendance’ policy is unfair and doesn’t work
‘This is so wrong. 100% attendance is not really achievable.’
Fight the Refugee Ban Bill petition attracts thousands of signatures
The legislation will ‘cause misery to refugees, cost millions to taxpayers and drive desperate people to take ever more dangerous journeys as there is no other way for them to claim asylum.’
Which countries offer free school meals?
‘It’s simply not right that 4.2 million children in the UK – that’s 9 pupils in every class of 30 – are growing up trapped in poverty.’
Activists launch ‘Stop the Arms Fair’ campaign ahead of DSEI arms trade event
“Representatives from regimes such as Saudi Arabia, who have used UK-made weapons to commit war crimes in Yemen, will be wined and dined and encouraged to buy yet more arms.”
Jeremy Corbyn: Ticket office closures are ‘unnecessary, cruel and simply wrong’
Jeremy Corbyn calls on Labour to commit to nationalising the transport industry in exclusive interview
Climate protesters storm theatre show over Sadlers Wells fossil fuel sponsorship
“It’s time to cut oily money out of the arts.”
How Tory government policy has led to more than 2 million Brits dying
Austerity has been deadly
Tory Schools Minister in car crash interview over building safety concerns
‘It’s an absolute shambles. As usual schools, and our kids, are left high and dry.’
Exclusive interview with rail union leaders on the Tories’ ‘managed decline’ of the railways
Mick Lynch and Mick Whelan on ticket office closures and rail industry cuts