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Tories ridiculed for proposing to ban four day week

Chris Jarvis
Yesterday

“Yet again we witness the political gymnastics of this outdated and out of touch Conservative Party descend into a collective swoon over the terrifying prospect of a council functioning better whilst saving the tax-payer money.”

A group of people on a stage with a sign reading four day week

New petition calls for referendum on public ownership of water

Chris Jarvis
Yesterday

Feargal Sharkey is backing the petition

WASP campaigners who have launched the petition for a referendum for public ownership of water

Labour’s achievements this week: Lifting 450,000 children out of poverty and delivering workers’ rights

Basit Mahmood
Yesterday

Change doesn’t happen overnight, yet slowly and surely, this government is delivering after 14 years of Tory austerity

Keir Starmer

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Revealed: The revolving door between Westminster and the fossil fuel industry

Molly Scott Cato
8 May, 2018

Public interest is at risk when successive officials and elected representatives leave the corridors of power to join the fossil fuel lobby. Molly Scott Cato writes.

Will gifting £10,000 really make life easier for millennials?

Joana Ramiro
8 May, 2018

A new report is proposing giving people in their 20s a ‘Citizen’s Inheritance’ and controlled rents. Joana Ramiro investigates.

Caroline Lucas: Other parties can no longer be complacent in wake of Green wins

Josiah Mortimer
4 May, 2018

The Greens saw some impressive results on Thursday night. What’s behind the surge?

REJOICE: The hard right have been wiped out in the local elections

Josiah Mortimer
4 May, 2018

UKIP and the far-right have received an almighty drubbing.

No, Momentum didn’t cost Labour a victory in the local elections

Josiah Mortimer
4 May, 2018

Trafford Labour Party leader: Momentum campaign was ‘a massive help for us’ in winning back Tory council.

How the Windrush scandal could cost the Conservatives crucial voters

Rakib Ehsan
3 May, 2018

Are these elections the nail in the coffin for the Conservatives’ support among black voters?

Local elections: We have an opportunity to end ‘one party councils’ in England

Jonathan Bartley
3 May, 2018

In many councils, voters have a choice: to accept one party state councils – or to elect a real opposition, writes Green leader Jonathan Bartley.

Forty years on, we still need to learn lessons from the Grunwick strike

John Lehal
3 May, 2018

A new play reminds us our economy is still stacked against ethnic minority workers.

The government’s ‘tough’ action on overseas tax dodging isn’t all it seems

Prem Sikka
3 May, 2018

The Tories are forcing overseas territories to publish who really owns companies. A welcome step – but it will do little on its own, writes accounting expert Prem Sikka.

How councils can stop privatisation in its tracks

Ellen Lees
2 May, 2018

We can break the stranglehold of outsourcing in our communities.

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