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Your Party to focus on backing independent candidates in the upcoming local elections

Olivia Barber
Today

The new left-wing outfit won’t be fielding its own candidates

Jeremy Corbyn speaking at Your Party Conference

Reform UK candidate expresses admiration for Oswald Mosley and wants to keep migrants in slave labour

Basit Mahmood
Today

These are the kinds of people Reform is putting up for election.

Arnold-Tabor

Housing campaigner perfectly sums up why the UK needs rent controls alongside the Renters’ Rights Act

Olivia Barber
Today

ACORN activist Martin Mawdsley says that rents must be linked to incomes to make them “fair and affordable”

Martin Mawdsley from ACORN Liverpool

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A photo of an Asda store
News

Thousands of Asda workers win latest stage of decade-long equal pay claim

Olivia Barber
4 February, 2025

A tribunal has found that most female shopworkers involved in the case have jobs of equal value to higher-paid positions in Asda’s warehouses.

Chris Worrall

GB News’ arguments on Brexit, borders and Trump taken apart by Labour activists

Basit Mahmood
3 February, 2025

Businesses are drowning in red-tape, with £7bn in costs from additional customs administration and at least £10bn in lost trade, with exports dropping by 30% as a result of Brexit

Voting Ballot Box

Half of Brits support introducing Proportional Representation voting system, latest poll finds

Basit Mahmood
3 February, 2025

The public also believe that it is more important for seats to be allocated proportionally between parties (46%) than for the largest party to win a majority of seats in the House of Commons (27%).

A photo of Suella Braverman appearing on LBC radio
News

Suella Braverman spent thousands of public money on media training while Home Secretary

Olivia Barber
3 February, 2025

Despite the costly media training, Braverman was later sacked for a media outburst

Reform UK

Reform UK rally told people who backed remain ‘shouldn’t be allowed to vote’

Basit Mahmood
3 February, 2025

Support for reversing Brexit is high, with 55% of Brits in favour of rejoining the EU.

A photo of four of the five Reform UK MPs in Parliament
News

Shocking poll finds Reform could win 70 seats if an election were called now

Olivia Barber
3 February, 2025

Hope not Hate has warned that the poll should be a “wake up call”

Donald Trump

Woke-bashing of the week – Trump’s attack on ‘wokeness’ and the UK right-wing echo chamber

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
2 February, 2025

The echoes of Trump’s presidency are already reverberating across the Atlantic, emboldening right-wing commentators in the UK to rally behind a shared vision of dismantling progressive social policies.

Refugees
News

Scottish Refugee Council launches new tool to help refugees locate support services

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
2 February, 2025

Since 2012, the UK’s ‘hostile environment’ policy has created challenges, preventing asylum seekers and refugees from fully integrating.

News

Right-Wing Media Watch – Tory press panics over Labour’s positive signals on closer EU ties

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
2 February, 2025

Despite Brexit’s clear, ongoing failures, some Brexiteers and their cheerleading press are still clinging to the myth of its success, accusing the so-called ‘Rejoiner elite’ of plotting a return to Brussels.

News

‘Unprecedented’ month-long strike begins at leading London museums

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
2 February, 2025

It’s the “longest strike in the history of all three institutions.”

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