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We will be returning on Monday 5th January with more hard-hitting news and comment, written by and for the UK left.
Today’s announcements are welcome, but the direction of travel is worrying.
Some of the tax cuts being proposed by the Tories and the Lib Dems sound good, but in reality they are highly regressive.
Even with the car industry motoring ahead in investment and creating jobs, manufacturing employment is barely higher than three years previously.
In Norway, state support for childcare goes to providers who have to meet quality criteria in order to receive any money.
A group of MPs has slammed the government for using official statistics inaccurately to spin stories about benefit claimants.
More than 100,000 families could lose out on up to £18,000-worth of childcare help under a new government scheme announced today.
Hospitals should be properly funded through general taxation, not propped up by a tax on the sick.
Market obsessives and state haters have led the backlash against teaching assistants.
The event will be the first Left Foot Forward’s ‘Versus’ event – a series of head-to-head debates on contemporary issues in British politics.
The Scottish Conservatives has called for free prescriptions to be abolished in order to finance an extra 1,000 new nurses and midwives north of the border.
