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Jeremy Corbyn skewered Theresa May today at prime minister’s questions on the rollout of Universal Credit, as he urged her to do away with the unjust premium rate phone line which sees those seeking advice charged 55p a minute. Manytest
Ealing council have taken the landmark move to ban pro-life protestors from demonstrating outside of an abortion clinic. Not one councillor voted against the move last night to have a buffer zone around the clinic, so as to prevent harassmenttest
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 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.
The Labour grass roots movement now boasts over 31,000 members and 250,000 supporters and it’s only two years old.
By overloading balance sheets with debt, companies claim tax relief on the interest payments and then shift profits offshore. Here’s how.
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.
The effect of Brexit on Ireland will be “profound” said Ireland’s equivalent of HM Revenue and Customs in an internal paper.
Over half of those in poverty are in working families, a damning inditement of work in Tory Britain.
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.
