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Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead

Stop Jackdaw

Activists protest Shell’s Jackdaw gas field project as no solution to cost-of-living crisis

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
27 August, 2022

‘Gas is now a staggering nine times more expensive than renewables, and we know it wrecks the planet. So it’s absolutely unfathomable that the government is so fixated on gas, when what’s needed for households and for the climate are genuine solutions.’

NHS GP surgery

Government urged to take bolder action to address rising health inequality

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
7 August, 2022

As Rishi Sunak plans to charge NHS patients £10 for ‘no shows’, reports show growing disparity in access to healthcare and rising health inequality across the UK.

A banner reading "end fire and rehire"

Thousands sign petition urging government to make fire and rehire illegal

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
7 August, 2022

Opposition towards the ‘ruthless’ practice of deliberately firing people to rehire them on worse contracts is gathering momentum.  

Rees-Mogg on LBC

Internationalist campaigners call for Rees-Mogg to apologise for ‘Dover deceit’

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
6 August, 2022

“The Brexit deceitfully sold by Jacob Rees-Mogg and the hard Brexit deal he advocated has negatively impacted almost every sector of our economy. It has made our country poorer and less safe. He must now apologise.”

CAAT

UK arms sales to Saudi Arabia back on trial next year

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
6 August, 2022

A legal challenge over the supply of UK-made weapons for the war in Yemen will proceed to the High Court in January 2023.

Tory leadership debate

‘Reactionary and regressive’: Tory leadership candidates slammed for promising the return of grammar schools

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
31 July, 2022

“How anyone can still argue that grammar schools are the magic wand to improve our broken education system beggars belief.”

Picket line

Petition to protect the right to strike garners thousands of signatures

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
31 July, 2022

As Truss and Sunak are branded “Thatcher tribute acts” for threatening the right to strike, momentum builds to secure this fundamental right.

A photo of coins on top of an article explaining that Energy companies are raising prices

Calls grow to bring energy back into public ownership, as companies report record-breaking profit

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
30 July, 2022

Reports of record-breaking profit for energy giants amid surging energy prices for households and a cost-of-living crisis, has sparked criticism and calls for energy to be brought into public ownership.

Andy Burnham

Andy Burnham’s plans to reform city region’s buses given the green light by Court of Appeal

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
30 July, 2022

“Brilliant news for the people of Greater Manchester.”

liz Truss

Top five painfully memorable Liz Truss moments

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
24 July, 2022

‘This is so awkward.’

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