650,000 sign petition to make medical cannabis accessible to children with epilepsy
The End Our Pain campaign is calling on MPs to help the children ahead of Monday’s Parliamentary debate.
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Tories face backlash over plans to hike National Insurance to pay for social care for elderly
‘We need a tax rise to pay for social care, but not this one’.
Green Party ask Sian Berry to remove video expressing her preferences in leadership election
Sian had called for members to give their first and second preference votes to either Tamsin Omond and Amelia Womack, or to Carla Denyer and Adrian Ramsay.
Prof Prem Sikka: Why the government needs to abolish tuition fees and write off student debt
‘In March 2021, the outstanding student debt was around £141bn’.
Mary Kelly Foy MP: Simply saying that we will be carbon neutral by 2050 is not enough
‘The likes of BP and Exxon need to be held accountable for the masses of emissions they produce’.
Millions in UK face disenfranchisement under voter ID plans which could breach human rights law, report warns
‘Whilst the Government’s list of acceptable forms of ID has been widely drawn, it is estimated that over 2 million people will not have an acceptable form of ID’
Five things we learnt from Dominic Raab’s grilling by MPs on Afghanistan
The foreign secretary’s answers to very direct questions were vague, obfuscatory and sought to shift blame elsewhere than accept responsibility.
Tory attack on Runnymede Trust over race report fails
Over a dozen Conservative Party MPs wrote to the Charity Commission last year demanding it launch an investigation into the think tank over its criticism of a government race report.
Union blames 12 hour shifts and low wages for food supply issues
Worries about having enough Christmas food are distracting us from the basic problem, says GMB Union
Natalie Bennett: Why did the Daily Mail focus its front page on disposable nappies?
Natalie Bennett unpacks why yesterday’s Daily Mail front page wasn’t about Afghanistan or the Covid crisis