The chancellor’s support to the ‘Black Thursday’ energy rise has been met with contempt, with unions warning the increase is a cost-of-living ‘catastrophe’ for ordinary workers.
Almost two years into the pandemic, and exhausted and overwhelmed nurses are working long hours, often without pay, in order to keep the NHS afloat, a new study has revealed.
Excluding furlough and being a long time coming, the Chancellor’s support package for the hospitality sector announcement brings adverse reaction.
A far cry from the ‘Eat Out To Help Out’ mantra of the summer 2020, the people of Britain are being urged to limit trips to the pub, as omicron variant cases soar.
‘The neoliberal economic policies have increased social tensions but have failed to energise the economy. They have impoverished people and turned town centres into economic deserts.’
Some of the lowest paid local authorities in England are calling on the government to provide a £300m temporary injection to their finances.
Dependence on food banks is still “well above” what it was before the pandemic, with emergency parcels feeding children on the rise, says Britain’s leading food bank charity.
The Health and Care Bill contains heavily contested NHS reforms and has been branded by campaigners ‘a charter for corruption’ and a ‘Corporate Takeover Bill’.
With time and energy lost on Brexit negotiations, the UK was not fully prepared for the pandemic, an independent watchdog has unveiled.
Pledges to address England’s regional inequality transpires into broken promises with the scaling back of Northern Powerhouse Rail. Naturally, northerners are in uproar.
