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Mental health care saves lives. We must fight the Tories’ £500m-a-year cut to services
I’m transgender and a survivor of suicide. I know how important mental health care is. We can’t let the Tories get away with underfunding it, writes Sophie Cook.
The government just released data showing stark racial inequalities in the UK
The audit release coincides with another study that shows the poorest BME households will see their living standards drop by 20 per cent because of austerity.
Momentum co-founder: we’ll have more members than the Tories ‘on current trend’
The Labour grass roots movement now boasts over 31,000 members and 250,000 supporters and it’s only two years old.
Multinational companies are using this loophole to avoid millions in corporation tax
By overloading balance sheets with debt, companies claim tax relief on the interest payments and then shift profits offshore. Here’s how.
The SNP just challenged the government to make unpaid ‘work trials’ illegal
The exploitative practice sees employers demanding new staff work trial shifts for nothing before being offered paid employment, or not, as the case may be.
Hard border between UK and Ireland “unavoidable” warns Irish civil service Brexit report
The effect of Brexit on Ireland will be “profound” said Ireland’s equivalent of HM Revenue and Customs in an internal paper.
2.3 million Londoners in poverty despite record low unemployment, new report finds
Over half of those in poverty are in working families, a damning inditement of work in Tory Britain.
Britain’s self-employment boom relies on a diminution of workers’ rights
15 per cent of the British workforce are now self-employed but this often comes at the cost of job security and employer obligations such as pensions and sick pay.
This council just gave carers a 10% pay rise
Despite facing significant cuts, Salford Council is giving carers a significant pay hike. But it follows dedicated campaigning by workers and local activists.
Let’s face it: the main contenders to take on May are just as hopeless as she is
The potential Conservative leadership election is already looking like a battle of weak vs weaker – in a bitterly-divided, rump Tory party.