10 wildest comments from members of Kemi Badenoch’s new shadow cabinet
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Climate campaigners threaten legal action over lifting of fracking ban
Greenpeace has hit out at the government’s actions, condemning them as “unlawful.” Meanwhile, Scotland confirms its policy on fracking is not changing.
New campaign aims to raise awareness of clothing deprivation
The initiative is aimed at exposing clothing poverty and waste, to provide adequate clothing for all, and bring about change in law around the right to clothing.
Government faces backlash over plans to ditch proposed bans on fur and foie gras imports
“It’s illegal to produce fur in the UK and it’s illegal to produce foie gras. We have to address the contradiction that if it’s too cruel to be produced here in the UK it’s too cruel to import it.”
Liz Truss is planning a “full frontal assault on working people” – Frances O’Grady interview
TUC general secretary Frances O’Grady speaks to Left Foot Forward about the government’s plans for workers’ rights, the current wave of strikes and how trade unions can help tackle the climate crisis
Gordon Brown’s superb Twitter thread on the scale of poverty and inequality in the UK
‘The low paid get just £550 in government help, despite facing £1,300 rise in fuel bills not to mention other costs’.
Prem Sikka: This mini-budget will only increase inequality and poverty
The biggest winners are corporations and the rich. As a result, the government’s borrowing will surge from £72.4bn, to £234.1bn, but won’t provide details of the impact on current and future generations.
Why Kwasi Kwarteng’s mini-budget is only for the richest 1% while failing the most in need
There was more in this mini budget for bankers than there was for children living in poverty.
Labour could abolish House of Lords if it wins next election
The suggestion was made in a draft report of a constitutional review led by former prime minister Gordon Brown.
Message for the Chancellor: Public health is an economic issue
‘What the government is resolutely refusing to acknowledge, let alone address, is the crisis of people who aren’t working not because they don’t have to financially, not because they’re choosing a life of leisure, but simply because they can’t, due to ill health’
A Must Watch: Ed Miliband completely rips apart Jacob Rees-Mogg for lifting fracking ban
“So first, why doesn’t [Rees-Mogg] admit the truth, that anyone who knows anything about this subject says his claim that fracking will cut bills is nonsense.”