Stamp duty cut slammed for ‘propping up house prices’ and benefiting the wealthier
“People don’t need help to move home. They need help to keep and heat the one they have.”
Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
Climate campaigners threaten legal action over lifting of fracking ban
Greenpeace has hit out at the government’s actions, condemning them as “unlawful.” Meanwhile, Scotland confirms its policy on fracking is not changing.
New campaign aims to raise awareness of clothing deprivation
The initiative is aimed at exposing clothing poverty and waste, to provide adequate clothing for all, and bring about change in law around the right to clothing.
Government faces backlash over plans to ditch proposed bans on fur and foie gras imports
“It’s illegal to produce fur in the UK and it’s illegal to produce foie gras. We have to address the contradiction that if it’s too cruel to be produced here in the UK it’s too cruel to import it.”
Truss sacks Zac Goldsmith as environment minister, sparking animal welfare and climate action concerns
The move has raised further fears about the PM’s commitment to tackling climate change.
Fresh rail strikes threaten to throw Tory conference into chaos
The train strikes look set to disrupt people travelling to the Conservative Party Conference in Birmingham.
DWP criticised for rejecting calls to pause Universal Credit payment deductions during cost-of-living crisis
‘The deductions policy is acting as a recruiting sergeant for food banks.’
Report shows little progress in identifying earthquake risk, as drilling licences expected to be issued next week
As fracking companies call for earthquake limits to be reduced and exploratory drilling could start as early as next week, a report shows reducing and predicting earthquake risk remains a ‘scientific challenge’
‘A kick in the teeth’: Truss could ditch junk food crackdown to ‘cut red tape’
A Tory U-turn is reportedly on the cards over anti-obesity measures, raising eyebrows over the PM’s connections to free-market think-tanks that lobbied against the legislation.
Reach journalists’ three-day strike postponed
The industrial action that was due to take place this week will no longer go ahead, as new talks over low pay get underway.
