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National living wage

Why the rise in the National Living Wage won’t compensate for the cut to Universal Credit

Basit Mahmood
26 October, 2021

“It’s a good news story that low paid workers will see a decent pay increase, but it’s quite a separate question to a universal credit cut and in no way should be seen as a compensation for it”

Kent Tories

Anger after Kent Tories ‘run a sweepstake on Universal Credit cuts’

Basit Mahmood
26 October, 2021

“It’s all just a big laugh to them. They have no idea what losing over £20 a week is doing to families in Kent and across England.”

Sewage vote

Jenny Jones: Sewage and the Conservatives’ lack of clear blue water

Jenny Jones
26 October, 2021

Daily maps of the sewage dumping, along with graphic pictures of murky coastal waters have illustrated the scale of it (400,000 incidents in the last year alone).

Rishi Sunak

‘We can afford to contribute more’: UK millionaires call on chancellor to introduce wealth tax

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
25 October, 2021

‘We are proud to pay our taxes to reduce inequality, support stronger social care and the NHS,’ UK wealth holders write in a letter to Sunak.

Warnings made about newly formed group of climate change sceptics

‘Lukewarmer propaganda’: Climate change deniers’ ‘rebrand’ sparks concern

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
24 October, 2021

Claims that a prominent climate change denial group has rebranded as Net Zero Watch has incited concern and warnings over group’s objectives and dubious climate science messages.

Green Party deputy leader Amelia Womack speaking at Green Party Conference

Amelia Womack criticises Starmer’s Labour for lacking ‘moral fibre’

Chris Jarvis
23 October, 2021

“We’ve seen a total failure of leadership from those in charge, and a failure of moral fibre from those who are meant to be in opposition.”

Green Party co-leaders Adrian Ramsay and Carla Denyer

Free bus travel or bin strikes? – The Greens running local government

Chris Jarvis
23 October, 2021

How is the Green Party coping with running local councils?

Jeremy Corbyn speaking on climate change

Jeremy Corbyn: We need radical change to fix our destructive political and economic system before it’s too late

Jeremy Corbyn
22 October, 2021

‘Our crises of climate, inequality, the Covid 19 pandemic and democracy are all linked, and all require radical solutions that put people and planet before the interests of the multinational profiteers’

Green Party co-leaders Carla Denyer and Adrian Ramsay

New Green Party co-leaders pitch left in conference speech

Chris Jarvis
22 October, 2021

With calls for public ownership of public services, scrapping universal credit and a Green New Deal, the pair set out their stall of climate action combined with a left wing economic agenda. 

£10 notes pegged to a washing line

Prof Prem Sikka: The UK insolvency industry is corrupt and reform is long overdue

Prem Sikka
22 October, 2021

‘The insolvency industry is the ‘wild west’ of our times’

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