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Tories ridiculed for proposing to ban four day week

Chris Jarvis
Today

“Yet again we witness the political gymnastics of this outdated and out of touch Conservative Party descend into a collective swoon over the terrifying prospect of a council functioning better whilst saving the tax-payer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

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
Today

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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Reform’s latest high profile recruit used n-word in Brexit debate

Chris Jarvis
2 July, 2025

The ex-Tory MP has used racist language in the past

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Full list of Green Party leadership candidates revealed

Chris Jarvis
2 July, 2025

Nine people are standing for the deputy leadership

Keir Starmer
News

Why did the government botch the benefits bill so badly?

Helen Goodman
2 July, 2025

Social security reform cannot pick up the pieces of policy failure elsewhere.

Reform UK
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Most young people unlikely to vote Reform poll finds, in blow to Nigel Farage

Basit Mahmood
2 July, 2025

‘Just because young people see Reform’s content doesn’t mean they’re buying into it.’

Keir Starmer
News

The full list of Labour MPs who voted against Keir Starmer’s welfare reform bill

Basit Mahmood
2 July, 2025

The bill eventually passed after a series of last-minute climbdowns that stripped back much of the controversial reform package to avoid rebellion.

A photo of the House of Commons
News

Welfare Bill: How every MP voted on the disability benefit cuts

Chris Jarvis
1 July, 2025

Find out how your MP voted on the Welfare Bill

Liz Kendall speaking in the House of Commons
Opinion

The government’s Disability Benefit Cuts Bill is impossible to support

Chris Hinchliff
1 July, 2025

Labour MP Chris Hinchliff explains why he doesn’t support the disability benefit cuts

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Bob Vylan release statement after Glastonbury controversy

Chris Jarvis
1 July, 2025

“We are being targeted for speaking up. We are not the first. We will not be the last.”

A photo of Liz Kendall, the Department for Work and Pensions secretary making a statement in Parliament on the WASPI women
News

Poll shows public are opposed to government’s disability benefit cuts

Chris Jarvis
1 July, 2025

Opposition is almost universal across the political spectrum

Indie band Deerhoof
News

Major indie band to pull all music from Spotify over founder’s links to defence firm

Chris Jarvis
1 July, 2025

“We don’t want our music killing people”

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