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The Institute of Employment Rights is looking for a new Director to lead their small but busy office.
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‘Under the Bill, protests could be banned because they are deemed to be noisy and disruptive and participants could be prosecuted’.
‘Labour for a Green New Deal described the move as ‘anti-democratic’ which was designed to ‘silence members, making a mockery of any commitment to bold climate action’.
‘Improvements to Criminal Justice have been equally central to the ambitions of the SNP’.
‘Figures published today by HMRC show that the “Tax Gap” – the difference between the money owed to HMRC and that collected – stands at a staggering £35 billion.’
The Joseph Rowntree Foundation says that the universal credit cut will impose the ‘biggest overnight cut to the basic rate of social security since the foundation of the modern welfare state.’
The MP for Mid Bedfordshire has previously retweeted the former leader of the English Defence League Tommy Robinson and shared Islamophobic tropes against London mayor Sadiq Khan
The news you didn’t see this week…
When it comes to a potential Senedd pact, size matters, writes Ifan Morgan Jones.
