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Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead

Supermarket in Spain

Five reasons why Brexit is to blame for Britain’s fruit and veg shortages

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
25 February, 2023

From a shortfall of workers to higher transportation costs and more red tape, we look at how direct and indirect consequences of Brexit have contributed to the dwindling of fresh produce supplies in the UK.

Report finds workers on lower pay likelier to quit job due to ill health

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
19 February, 2023

The Learning and Work Institute is urging the government to ‘engage Britain’s 1.7 million forgotten workers.’

Richard Tice

Reform UK to demand more TV time ahead of local elections

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
19 February, 2023

Aiming to copy the UKIP ‘playbook’, Reform is to wage an insurgent campaign, in a bid to gain TV exposure for its senior representatives.

Right-Wing Watch

Why do the right hate everything that’s good about Britain?

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
18 February, 2023

Not content with taking us out of Europe, the anti-EU right-wing forces in Britain have set their sights on some of our most cherished institutions.

Council tax bill
News

Council tax rises will affect the poorest the hardest, campaigners warn

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
18 February, 2023

As council tax is a regressive tax, the hike will add to the disproportionate impact rising living costs has on people on lower incomes.

A photo of a march coinciding with RCN strikes. Demonstrators are carrying a banner reading "We are the NHS!"

Nurses’ union call for stronger strike action, announcing first 48-hour walkout

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
18 February, 2023

The RCN has said staff have ‘had enough of being taken for granted, enough of low pay and unsafe staffing levels.’

Pontins

Daily Mail and Express report fake asylum seeker hotel costs

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
12 February, 2023

With a media that doesn’t hold back in printing anti-immigration stories designed to fan the flames of hatred, using the most inflated figures possible to report on asylum and refugee resettlement in the UK, comes as no surprise.

Tony Abbott

Government refuses to sack Australian trade advisor Tony Abbott for joining climate-sceptic think-tank

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
12 February, 2023

‘Talking tough on climate action while filling your Board of Trade with people like Abbott is a dismal signal to the world about Britain’s climate leadership.’

Right-Wing Watch

Can the Tories win the next general election?

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
11 February, 2023

For a government limping along under the rule of its fifth prime minister in six years, drenched in sleaze and infighting, conventional wisdom says surely the Tories can’t survive the next general election. But then this is politics, and anything can happen.

Report finds Brexit failings are leading cause of small boats crisis

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
11 February, 2023

A new academic report identifies Brexit and other UK government failings as the underlying cause of the increase in people making the perilous journey across the English Channel.

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