10 wildest comments from members of Kemi Badenoch’s new shadow cabinet
From the offensive to the bizarre
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The UK’s tax system is regressive, rewards the wealthy and is in urgent need of reform
‘The UK tax system is regressive. It penalises workers, pensioners and their families. It rewards speculators and rentiers. It favours financial speculation over the hard graft of work’
Energy crisis: A 5-point plan to meet the UK’s energy needs
5 steps the country could take to ensure a cleaner and more affordable future.
2.5 million households with children in fuel poverty after new energy price cap comes into effect
Over half (55.7%) of lone-parent households (855,938) will be in fuel poverty from today
What the UK could learn from New Zealand’s planned labour laws
Jacinda Ardern’s Government has introduced legislation to enable industry-wide collective bargaining
Tory minister shows support for the creation of a national ‘Margaret Thatcher day’
‘Celebrations to include ritual milk stealing and the annual rendering of 3.6 million people unemployed’
Global banks provided $742bn in fossil fuel financing despite their climate pledges
In the six years since the adoption of the Paris Agreement, the world’s 60 largest private sector banks financed fossil fuels with $4.6 trillion.
Diane Abbott MP: This crisis of living standards is government made
‘History suggests that political upheaval is very likely to follow. The Labour government of 1997, for example, was ushered in on the back of rising food prices.’
Tory MP condemned after telling Boris Johnson UK should only accept ‘right’ sort of migrants
‘We want Ukrainians, we want Qataris, we don’t want people in rubber boats’. said Sir Bill Wiggin
Tory tug of war over Net Zero as Net Zero Scrutiny Group ‘grows in number’
Tory pressure groups in parliament who support and oppose the government’s Net Zero targets are both increasing their support.
Radical Roundup: 10 stories that have got buried – Week 5, March 2022
The news you didn’t seek this week…