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Yesterday

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Yesterday

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How privatisation has ‘failed us all for decades’

Cat Hobbs
1 October, 2021

We Own It director Cat Hobbs argues ‘privatisation is an extreme ideological experiment’

Labour Party leader Keir Starmer

Opinion: Keir Starmer and dishonesty is a recurring theme

Hamza Ali Shah
1 October, 2021

Hamza Ali Shah argues Starmer’s leadership has so far been ‘typified by U-turns, disingenuity and underhandedness’

Met sparks outrage after telling women to ‘flag down a bus’ if they feel unsafe with police

Alexandra Warren
1 October, 2021

“When is the Met going to take measures to ensure that a police officer isn’t a predator rather than giving women yet more advice on how to change their behaviour?”

New Green Party leaders of England and Wales elected

Lucy Skoulding
1 October, 2021

Carla Denyer and Adrian Ramsay are now the joint leaders of the Green Party

Green Party co-leadership candidate Tamsin Omond shows irreverent side at book launch

LFF Reporter
1 October, 2021

Co-leadership candidate said talking is “not a very good thing to get good at” and it “doesn’t really align with my politics.”

Furloughed written in a notebook

Final day of furlough: ‘Westminster is inflicting a perfect storm of catastrophes’

Lucy Skoulding
30 September, 2021

A cut to Universal Credit, rising fuel and food prices, the end of the cap on energy bills – and now the government has ended the furlough scheme

‘Police are institutionally misogynistic’ says former chief constable

Lucy Skoulding
30 September, 2021

Sue Fish says the nature of the British policing model ‘has to fundamentally change now’

Labour Party leader Keir Starmer

A new voting system: Will Labour ever accept sharing power to win?

Lucy Skoulding
30 September, 2021

Here’s what happened at Compass’s Labour Conference fringe rally on the the possibility of Labour backing electoral reform

Starmer

“We’re clearly not there yet”: Mixed reaction to Keir Starmer’s conference speech

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
29 September, 2021

Interrupted by chants of “Oh, Jeremy Corbyn”, Starmer attempted to present Labour as a serious alternative to the Tory government.

An abdication of responsibility: Bakers, Food and Allied Workers Union’s disaffiliation with Labour

Alex Maguire
29 September, 2021

The union is separating itself from Labour but not from Labour debate, in which case why disaffiliate?

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