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“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.”
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
‘The low paid get just £550 in government help, despite facing £1,300 rise in fuel bills not to mention other costs’.
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.
There was more in this mini budget for bankers than there was for children living in poverty.
The suggestion was made in a draft report of a constitutional review led by former prime minister Gordon Brown.
‘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’
“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.”
‘In July, Truss told a hustings of Tory MPs that she would be at the next UN climate change conference — due to be held in Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt, in November’
The cap Liz Truss would implement, at £2,500, still means your energy bills have doubled since this time last year
