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The end destination must be a statutory Living Wage
The London Living Wage has raised the issue of poverty pay up the political agenda; it is now time to move to a statutory living wage.
Salmond accuses the Home Office of ‘sabotage’
Alex Salmond has accused the Home Office of ‘sabotage’ after it refused visas for two Chinese teachers looking to visit Scotland under a Scottish government-funded scheme to teach pupils north of the border Mandarin.
Foreigners stealing our health worker jobs? There is another side to this story
Foreigners stealing our NHS jobs? There is another, sinister, side to the story of migrant workers in the UK, and when it comes to health workers the story is tragic.
This week’s most read: The Sun apologises (again), what it means to be left-wing, and energy bills
The most read articles on Left Foot Forward this week.
Wales gets its finance-raising powers
David Cameron and Nick Clegg today visited Wales to give their response to the Silk Commission into further Welsh devolution.
Radical and bold ideas, like the energy price freeze, are popular with voters. Let’s have more of them
Contrary to some popular wisdom, after the crash public opinion is now clearly on the side of substantial government intervention.
Sun apology: ‘No evidence’ of 600,000 benefit tourists, the paper now says
A few weeks ago the Sun ran a story which claimed that there were ‘600,000 benefit tourists’ in the UK and that the European Union had said this was ‘no problem’. The Sun made it up.
In adopting a pension cap the government has done a spectacular u-turn
Deeper market intervention is needed to deliver pensions people can trust and a real solution to the cost of living crisis to which high pension charges are contributing.
Green jobs: are they really too good to be true?
A summary of why it seems like green investment and jobs could solve all (ok, almost all) our problems.
Supervised injection sites are sensible health care interventions
Supervised Injection sites are sensible health care interventions based on the notion that health care is actually about improving health, and also about caring.