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In the middle of a cost of living crisis, the government is stripping support away from disabled people
New polling from the charity Leonard Cheshire found that a third of disabled adults – more than 2.8 million people – had less than £50 per week to pay for food and other essentials.
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Priti Patel’s speech disrupted by activists over ‘inhumane’ and ‘morally bankrupt’ Rwanda refugee plan
“Priti Patel, your racist policies are killing people. Your plans to send people seeking asylum to Rwanda are inhumane and are going to ruin people’s lives.”
Millions of people in the UK are missing meals because of the cost of living crisis, new survey finds
There has been a 57% jump in the proportion of households cutting back on food or missing meals altogether in just three months.
Interest rates rise will exacerbate the cost-of-living crisis unions warn, amid calls for an emergency budget
‘Once again, the working people of this country will pay the price.’
Government’s Covid testing programme disparaged as ‘unlegit’ and ‘no way to do business’
‘Has there ever been a government so allergic to accountability?’
North’s first female Muslim council leader slams ‘dehumanising’ smear campaign
Arooj Shah says she saw a ‘new low in the Conservatives in Oldham.’
EXCLUSIVE: Majority of public back investment in renewables not fracking, poll finds
Almost 70% of those asked support investment in green energy, compared to just 17% who back extraction of shale gas.
This is why essential industries need to be brought back into public ownership
Privatised industries pursue short-term objectives rather than long-term social objectives
Anger after Tory who pleaded guilty to assaulting woman is re-elected as a councillor
Gordon Cranney had pleaded guilty to the assault at Teesside Magistrates Court