Natalie Bennett: Universal Credit should protect domestic abuse survivors…and everyone else too
Paying it to individuals not households would benefit everyone. UBI would be better still.
Natalie Bennett
Baroness Natalie Bennett is a Contributing Editor at Left Foot Forward, and the former leader of the Green Party of England & Wales.
Natalie Bennett: Three proposed laws make a mockery of the PM’s claims about ‘Global Britain’
Three proposed laws are going to see further damage to the UK’s global reputation, writes Natalie Bennett.
Natalie Bennett: A new law would force government to walk the walk on climate change
The 2008 Climate Change Act was world leading at the time but it needs an update.
A new way for the UK to boost its international green trade agenda
The UK should sign up to the ‘Green Trade Deal’ as it takes on the chair of COP26.
This new bill on domestic abuse is a step in the right direction – but big gaps remain
Support services are stretched to the limit – and too many people are likely to fall through the cracks, writes Natalie Bennett.
Right-wingers are swallowing their words when it comes to green energy standards
Are they having an LED lightbulb moment?
Natalie Bennett: For people to self-isolate, they need financial support
Nobody should have to choose between public health and their own
financial survival
How one million pensioners are missing out on crucial government support
A Lords debate showed the Tories have no plan to address the problem, writes Natalie Bennett.
Lords lowdown: A day of resounding defeats for the Government over the Immigration Bill
The Hostile Environment rightly took a battering in the House of Lords on Monday. Natalie Bennett explores what happened.
The Tory trade bill is bad for people and planet — we need to fight for sustainable trade
The major social and environmental costs of trade have been ignored for too long and a new approach is needed
