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Ed Miliband admits ‘situation has changed’ between UK and US after Greenland disagreement

Basit Mahmood
Yesterday

In an extraordinary speech at Davos, Trump stepped up his claims to Greenland however ruled out using force.

Ed Miliband talking on LBC

PMQs: Keir Starmer humiliates Kemi Badenoch over Chagos deal attack

Olivia Barber
Yesterday

Badenoch’s attempt to use Trump’s criticism of the Chagos deal against the government backfired

Keir Starmer at PMQs

Full list of what Nigel Farage failed to declare on time, from promoting gold bullion to income from GB News

Basit Mahmood
Yesterday

Among the incidents, he logged six payments from GB News late, including one lump sum of £51,438 reported 36 days after the deadline.

Nigel Farage has been criticised over his Glasgow schoolchildren comments

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A job advert for the Institute for Employment Rights

Job Opportunity: Director of the Institute of Employment Rights

17 September, 2021

The Institute of Employment Rights is looking for a new Director to lead their small but busy office.

Andrew Neil held to account on Question Time over GB News ‘dog whistles’

Basit Mahmood
17 September, 2021

‘I think GB news, when it launched, was actually a very, very shoddy platform. When it came out it was embarrassing to watch.’

The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill threatens your right to protest

Prem Sikka
17 September, 2021

‘Under the Bill, protests could be banned because they are deemed to be noisy and disruptive and participants could be prosecuted’.

Keir Starmer speaking at a lectern

Backlash from Labour activists and MPs after Green New Deal motion blocked

LFF Reporter
17 September, 2021

‘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’.

Nicola Sturgeon

Steps the SNP is taking to make justice work for everyone

Allan Dorans
16 September, 2021

‘Improvements to Criminal Justice have been equally central to the ambitions of the SNP’.

If we want to fund better public services, we must tackle the tax gap

Phoebe Clay
16 September, 2021

‘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.’

Chancellor Rishi Sunak

Universal credit cut breaches human rights law, says UN envoy

Basit Mahmood
16 September, 2021

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.’

Nadine Dorries

Past comments on people of colour by new culture secretary Nadine Dorries cause backlash

Basit Mahmood
16 September, 2021

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

Radical Roundup

Radical Roundup: 10 stories that have got buried – Week 3, September 2021

Josiah Mortimer
15 September, 2021

The news you didn’t see this week…

One key reason why Welsh Labour and Plaid Cymru could be doing a deal

Ifan Morgan Jones
15 September, 2021

When it comes to a potential Senedd pact, size matters, writes Ifan Morgan Jones.

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