Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
Council tax rises will affect the poorest the hardest, campaigners warn
As council tax is a regressive tax, the hike will add to the disproportionate impact rising living costs has on people on lower incomes.
Nurses’ union call for stronger strike action, announcing first 48-hour walkout
The RCN has said staff have ‘had enough of being taken for granted, enough of low pay and unsafe staffing levels.’
Daily Mail and Express report fake asylum seeker hotel costs
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.
Government refuses to sack Australian trade advisor Tony Abbott for joining climate-sceptic think-tank
‘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.’
Can the Tories win the next general election?
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
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.