UKIP welcomes Front National MEPs into its parliamentary group
It’s been an interesting first week for the party’s new leader, with his party in the midst of a funding crisis and appearing to inch closer and closer to the far-right.
Charlotte England
Bosses are telling care workers they don’t have employment rights
A think tank is urging the government to support low-paid care workers in collective bargaining to challenge exploitative practices.
Patients not passports: the Tories must stop restricting migrants’ access to healthcare
Some NHS funded charities will now be forced to turn vulnerable migrants away.
The Tories’ plans on free childcare will only widen inequality in the UK
Quantity over quality in early years education is damaging to the poorest children.
MPs call for Universal Credit expansion to be delayed, warning system on brink of ‘collapse’
Members of DWP committee fear next month’s planned roll-out could leave ‘hundreds of thousands’ without benefits.
More people are dying in immigration detention centres. It is time to shut them down
Two detainees have died in the same month the BBC broadcast secret footage of guards abusing and neglecting people inside Brook House IRC
Murdoch’s bid to take over Sky just hit another wall
Culture secretary Karen Bradley has referred the 21st Century Fox bid to buy Sky to the Competition and Markets Authority.
Students call national demo against tuition fees, after Tories lose bid to raise cap
The Conservative Party was forced to abandon plans to hike tuition fees by £250 each year, after the DUP caused them major embarrassment by backing a Labour motion to block the rise.
Young workers deserve a higher minimum wage, unions say
The TUC’s comments coincide with a new report by thinktank Demos, which found 36% percent of young people worry about not being paid enough.
Government backtracks on plan to sell-off NHS staffing agency, after campaigners call for investigation
After coming under scrutiny, the Tories have done a sudden U-turn on the privatisation of NHS Professionals.