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Top 5 reasons you should be terrified about Liz Truss as Prime Minister
From workers’ rights to the climate crisis – Liz Truss running the country is a scary prospect
Liz Truss wins Tory leadership election
Amidst a devastating cost of living crisis, Liz Truss has beaten Rishi Sunak to become the country’s next Prime Minister
Voices on the Left: 5 blogs from the left you need to read this week
A roundup of progressive news…
The four day week: Ending a century of economic ‘maladjustment’
“The four-day week gives everyone the gift, the resource, the power, of time, of choice”
Daily Mail ridiculed for absurd front page attacking Joe Lycett and the BBC
“Thank God for the Daily Mail highlighting the big issues as our hungry children cry themselves to sleep.”
New PM must tackle school funding crisis, leading Tory ministers warn
The warnings come as the two Tory leadership contenders have faced criticism for speaking in favour of grammar schools while being bare on solutions to the problems schools currently face.
Leave.EU goes into liquation, owing £7m to co-founder Arron Banks
The pro-Brexit lobby group was founded to support Nigel Farage’s Leave campaign.
Campaigners call for social housing rent strike after Tories refuse freeze
Four million social housing households face threat of double digit rent increases.
Government blamed for Britain’s sewage-covered beaches
As water quality across the EU improves, the UK risks being turned into the ‘dirty man of Europe.’
Prof Prem Sikka: Visiting pawnbrokers showed me just how much people are struggling during the cost of living crisis
‘My brief visits to pawnshops are by no means a scientific study, but they do provide a glimpse of the tragedies inflicted by years of maldistribution of income and wealth, poverty, inequalities and obsession of privatisation which has left many teetering on the edge.’