HeartUnions week: Unions are winning for working people, and every worker should join a union
HeartUnions week is about celebrating the solidarity and power of a stronger trade union movement.
Left Foot Forward
Why this week could be the most challenging of Rishi Sunak’s premiership so far
The stakes are high
If Julian Assange is extradited it will have huge implications for human rights and press freedom around the world
‘Assange has not been convicted of any crime, but incarcerated solely for acquiring and publishing hundreds of thousands of classified documents, which exposed US state criminality’
Who are the senior Tory MPs set to lose seats in rural areas as support collapses?
The poll found Conservative support had fallen by 25 points since the 2019 election, with just 34 per cent of voters in the 100 most rural constituencies in England saying they would vote for the party.
Our politics is plagued by a failure of accountability
Accountability and integrity, as well as honesty, selflessness and leadership, demand of our politicians that they own up to their mistakes
Pensioner poverty: Rising pension age risks greater levels of poverty and health inequities, experts warn
“Even the suggestion that people won’t get it until their 70s will make people feel more distrustful than they already do in the state pension system.”
Northern mayors say train services have ‘got poorer’ since Northern Powerhouse promise
“What message does that send about the North? That we are somehow worth less than people in the South?”
EXCLUSIVE: Nearly half of voters think current Tory government is more corrupt than previous governments, poll finds
Concerns over corruption in government have been rising over recent years.
Rishi Sunak only has himself to blame for failing to bring NHS waiting lists down
Sunak’s pledge to bring down the NHS waiting lists wasn’t an off-hand pledge, an off-the-cuff remark, or a long-term policy proposal
Why the Rwanda policy makes no sense practically or politically
Practically speaking the bill will not do what Sunak claims.