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Council sees ‘spike’ in complaints against councillors since Reform took control

Olivia Barber
Today

“It strikes me as a lack of trust in how the council is being run”

Reform UK

Zarah Sultana protests for ambulance for hunger-striking Palestine Action prisoner

Olivia Barber
Today

The Your Party co-founder says she won’t leave the prison until they allow an ambulance in

Zarah Sultana speaking at Your Party conference

Labour’s Employment Rights Bill passes through Parliament-Delivering biggest upgrade in workers’ rights in a generation

Basit Mahmood
Today

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said the development marked a “major victory for working people in every part of the country”.

Keir Starmer

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News

‘Modest’ wealth tax on richest 0.3% could raise more than £10bn for public services, says TUC

Basit Mahmood
15 August, 2023

The trade union body has set out options for taxing the small number of individuals with wealth over £3 million, £5 million and £10 million

A placard at a climate change protest with text reading "There is no planet B"
News

Over a third of England’s homes will be at high risk of overheating as temperatures reach new extremes, think tank warns

Basit Mahmood
15 August, 2023

The report also warns that when it comes to work, older workers are a particular risk of heat stress

Zero hour contract
News

Number of ethnic minority workers in insecure jobs rises by 132% since 2011

Basit Mahmood
14 August, 2023

BME workers account for two thirds of the growth of insecure workers in this period – despite BME workers making up just 14% of the overall workforce. 

News

Chart sums up perfectly just how bad Britain’s economy is under the Tories

Basit Mahmood
14 August, 2023

It comes as a leading economic think tank warned that the UK is on course to experience five years of “lost” economic growth and is at risk of a recession next year.

COP26
News

How the Sun’s anti-net zero campaign is linked to a lobby group funded by the freight and haulage industry

Basit Mahmood
14 August, 2023

What the Sun also fails to mention is that its five-point manifesto bears a striking resemblance to the ‘five core campaign objectives’ of FairFuelUK

Cartoons not Cruelty

Cartoons not cruelty: Calls grow to restore cartoons at children’s asylum centres

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
13 August, 2023

Artists are on standby, offering to paint the cartoons back in at no expense to the taxpayer.

Bibby Stockholm

Migrants removed from ‘deathtrap’ barge, as government faces huge backlash over latest hostile immigration policy

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
13 August, 2023

‘This is yet another example of an ill-thought-out, knee-jerk reaction to the government’s own backlog of asylum claims.’

Brexit paperwork

Government data confirms Brexit as a main driver of exports decline

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
12 August, 2023

More than a third of businesses say their prospects for growth in 2023 have been hampered by a decline in demand for British goods because of Brexit.

Jacob Rees-Mogg

Jacob Rees-Mogg accused of spreading ‘fake history’ while mocking civil service growth

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
12 August, 2023

The former Brexit opportunities minister has been slammed for comments he made on his GB News show about colonialism.

Keir Starmer
Opinion

Labour must make democratic renewal a central reforming agenda for its first term in power

Grace Barnett
11 August, 2023

‘The hard thinking has been done, the case has been made within the party, and the British public is crying out for change.’

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