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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.
David Cameron will face a difficult meeting later this week as the heads of the UK’s devolved governments meet.
Over a quarter of people in London are living in poverty, higher than in any other part of England, according to a new report.
Removing a cash lifeline from an impoverished people could lead to a humanitarian crisis which could strengthen terrorist organisations.
New shadow work and pensions secretary Rachel Reeves announced that Labour would be “tougher than the Tories” on benefits, while Tristram Hunt said Labour in government would back a version of education secretary Michael Gove’s flagship free schools programme.
This week the Welsh finance minister Jane Hutt published a draft budget for 2014-15 which she described as ‘the most difficult since devolution’.
The most read articles on Left Foot Forward this week.
Critics, who represent a wide range of interests, have called the Bill ‘unworkable’.
Look Left, our daily political round up, will be going out shortly.
Wholesale and network costs are mostly responsible for the tariff increase, not the cost of green policies, which account for only a sixth of the rise.
The peace that has been cultivated over such a long period remains a fragile thing in constant need of TLC.
