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Housing activist exposes truth about ‘landlords leaving the market’ over Renters’ Right Act

Basit Mahmood
2 April, 2026 (3 days ago)

Landlord groups have claimed that many are leaving the market because of over-regulation.

Martin Mawdsley from ACORN Liverpool

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

Olivia Barber
2 April, 2026 (3 days ago)

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
2 April, 2026 (3 days ago)

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

Arnold-Tabor

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Plaid Cymru
Opinion

‘Inaction is not a solution’: Plaid Cymru develops ‘People’s Plan’ to tackle the cost-of-living crisis

Luke Fletcher
31 October, 2022

“It’s not so much that action is missing, it’s more that the UK government has been missing in action” – Plaid Cymru’s Luke Fletcher talks about the action needed to tackle the cost-of-living crisis.

COP27 U-turn on the cards following global backlash and reports that Boris Johnson could attend

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
31 October, 2022

The former PM’s plans to attend the climate summit are seen as a snub to Sunak, who is now reportedly considering a volte face by attending the event.  

Frances O'Grady calls for government to work with trade unions

Public workers at ‘breaking point’ and millions close to quitting, warns TUC

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
31 October, 2022

The public sector could face a ‘mass exodus’ of key workers unless ‘decent pay rises’ are delivered, says Frances O’Grady.

Braverman
News

Pressure mounts on Rishi Sunak over reappointment of Suella Braverman

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
31 October, 2022

Backlash grows over the prime minister’s decision to reinstall Braverman as home secretary just six days after she was forced out for a security breach.

A photo of a blanket laying on cardboard boxes on a street
News

London Mayor calls for immediate rent freeze as homelessness rises

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
31 October, 2022

The government is being urged to take decisive action in the autumn statement to invest in housing benefit.

NHS petition

Thousands sign petition urging government for an inflation-matching pay rise

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
30 October, 2022

A petition to the health secretary Steve Barclay to increase pay for NHS workers by 11 percent to match inflation, has amassed more than 80,000 signatures.

No Planet B

MPs call for investigation into potential wrongdoings by climate sceptic think-tank

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
30 October, 2022

The cross-party group of MPs are urging the Charity Commission to investigate possible misuse of funds by the Global Warming Policy Foundation.

Piers Morgan

Piers Morgan Uncensored attracts more viewers without Piers Morgan

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
29 October, 2022

You’d think that if a TV show is named after its presenter, that presenter would be its greatest asset, the reason why viewers tune in. Not, it seems, for TalkTV’s flagship evening showcase of debate and un-woke opinions.

Right-Wing Watch

What next, now Rishi Sunak is prime minister?

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
29 October, 2022

Sunak might be seen to have more political nous than his two disgraced predecessors, but he’s an ideologically right-wing Tory from the right of the party. The fact that he’s presented as a pragmatic centrist shows how far to the right the party has swung.

Fair pay for the NHS
News

Hundreds of thousands of NHS workers to ballot on strike action over pay

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
29 October, 2022

Around 350,000 members of Unison started voting this week on whether to strike over real terms pay cuts.

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