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James Cleverly’s attack on 4-day week doesn’t go to plan after presenters give him some facts

Basit Mahmood
Yesterday

‘Happy workers, less turnover, more profit. What’s your problem?’

James Cleverly

Zack Polanski calls on government to impose robust sanctions on Israel amid Lebanon bombing

Olivia Barber
Yesterday

‘What is it going to take for this government to actually put robust sanctions on Israel?’

Zack Polanski launches the Greens' local election campaign

LFF editorial: Why do the right not care about the cost of keeping children in poverty?

Basit Mahmood
Yesterday

The cost of child poverty extends beyond the physical and emotional hardship felt by children growing up in low-income families.

Children

Latest Posts

Boris Johnson and senior Tories are now actively undermining the Good Friday Agreement

Josiah Mortimer
28 February, 2018

Brexiteers are going back on their words when it comes to a hard border in Ireland – an extremely dangerous trend.

The Tories’ childcare policies are in total disarray

Oscar Webb
28 February, 2018

In some parts of the UK, childcare now costs nearly £10,000 a year – with lower-income families among the hardest hit.

Save our NHS campaign

New “subcos” in the NHS will destroy patient care and staff conditions – but resistance is growing

Fred Jerrome
27 February, 2018

Outsourcing jobs to private companies will create a more fractured and less responsive health service.

City of London

Corporations rely on a healthy functioning society but think they shouldn’t have to pay for it

Prem Sikka
27 February, 2018

And acting on this neo-liberal view, the Tory government are all too happy to cut their taxes.

Labour’s vision of staying in a customs union will protect jobs, rights and standards

Richard Corbett
27 February, 2018

And opposition parties can now unite to defeat the hard Brexiteers that would put this at risk.

Jeremy Corbyn speaking at a rally

Corbyn’s customs union stance wins Labour unlikely support amongst business leaders

26 February, 2018

The CBI, opposed to much of Labour’s economic policy, said they supported the party’s call to stay in a customs union with the EU.

UK hit by worst cost of living crisis in 50 years, new data shows – and the Tories have ignored it

Oscar Webb
26 February, 2018

The effects of Tory austerity may have been even worse than previously thought.

Come and join the Green Party? An open letter from Jonathan Bartley to Owen Jones

Jonathan Bartley
26 February, 2018

Being Green is different to being Labour. We believe in liberation from the state and the critical balance between people and planet. 

University leaders are saying one thing to the public – and something different to lecturers

Josiah Mortimer
23 February, 2018

Higher education bosses are playing games with the public, as well as the lecturers losing out.

How May faces defeat on this crucial part of Brexit

Josiah Mortimer
23 February, 2018

A coalition of MPs are getting organised against a crash-and-burn Brexit. At last.

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