Left Foot Forward
Prem Sikka: This mini-budget will only increase inequality and poverty
The biggest winners are corporations and the rich. As a result, the government’s borrowing will surge from £72.4bn, to £234.1bn, but won’t provide details of the impact on current and future generations.
Why Kwasi Kwarteng’s mini-budget is only for the richest 1% while failing the most in need
There was more in this mini budget for bankers than there was for children living in poverty.
Labour could abolish House of Lords if it wins next election
The suggestion was made in a draft report of a constitutional review led by former prime minister Gordon Brown.
Message for the Chancellor: Public health is an economic issue
'What the government is resolutely refusing to acknowledge, let alone address, is the crisis of people who aren’t working not because they don’t have to financially, not because they’re choosing a life of leisure, but simply because they can’t, due to ill health'
A Must Watch: Ed Miliband completely rips apart Jacob Rees-Mogg for lifting fracking ban
“So first, why doesn’t [Rees-Mogg] admit the truth, that anyone who knows anything about this subject says his claim that fracking will cut bills is nonsense."
Liz Truss unlikely to attend COP27 climate change conference, despite promising to do so
'In July, Truss told a hustings of Tory MPs that she would be at the next UN climate change conference — due to be held in Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt, in November'