A ‘People’s Land Bank’ may the answer to the housing crisis
A national body directing home building on vacant public land could be the bold solution we need to our failing housing system.
Revealed: Tory tax cuts for the rich have cost the UK £8.6bn in lost revenue
George Osborne’s 2012 cut in the highest rate of income tax from 50p to 45p lost billions in public revenue — handy if you’re superrich though.
Cutting stamp duty would be an admission of defeat on the housing crisis by the Tories
The Chancellor has signalled he may cut the tax for first time buyers. It would be a fig-leaf for the fact they’ve shelved their housing programme.
A ‘tax-dodging’ fracking company is about to start drilling in Yorkshire
Third Energy Holdings is based in the Cayman Islands, meaning it’s not liable for UK corporation tax.
300,000 people are homeless in Britain and it’s a direct result of Tory austerity
In one London borough 1 in 25 people are homeless. It’s a crisis the government did nothing to stop.
To protect from harassment, MPs’ staff urgently need their union recognised
MPs have too much power over their employees. It’s time MPs’ staff had a collective voice.
A draconian ban on anti-fracking protests is being challenged in court today by activists
Fracking company INEOS got a pre-emptive injunction against all future protests on some very flimsy evidence.
The Greens are calling on Labour to back electoral reform. There’s never been a better time to do so
If the party are really “for the many not the few” they need to get serious on reforming our broken voting system.
Philip Hammond’s budget will expose failed Tory economic policy once and for all
With productivity stagnant, the Chancellor may have to scrap public spending plans and increase borrowing. Tory economic legitimacy will be in tatters.
EXCLUSIVE: Labour’s new leader in Europe just suggested we can halt Brexit
“This was a narrow result and one won on a pack of lies and it was only an advisory referendum” — Richard Corbett MEP