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Rachel Reeves takes swipe at Liz Truss for helping richest families pay their energy bills as she sets out support for poorest households

Basit Mahmood
Yesterday

Unlike Truss, the Chancellor has said that only the poorest households will get government support if the conflict pushes up gas and electricity charges.

A photo of the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, delivering the government's Spring Statement

Breaking: Reform finally drops mayoral candidate who told David Lammy to ‘go home’

Olivia Barber
Yesterday

Chris Parry has been sacked after making numerous offensive comments on social media

Reform Mayoral Candidate Chris Parry

Reform’s Kent council approves wage increase for councillors

Basit Mahmood
Yesterday

Now it turns out that the party’s council leader has broken another promise when it comes to giving members of the council a pay rise.

Reform Kent County Councillors

Latest Posts

A pile of newspapers with text overlaid reading "Voices on the Left"

Voices on the Left: 5 blogs from the left you need to read this week

Basit Mahmood
6 December, 2021

A roundup of progressive news

Low pay

647,000 festive workers get no statutory sick pay, TUC warns

Basit Mahmood
6 December, 2021

The UK also has the least generous statutory sick pay in Europe, worth just £96.35 per week

Plastic polluton

The government’s plan to ban single-use plastics is too little too late

Steve Hynd
6 December, 2021

‘Over the last 20 years we’ve produced more plastic than in the whole of the last century.’

Refugees on a small boat

The Government is failing unaccompanied child refugees

Hannah Clare
6 December, 2021

‘When unaccompanied children arrive on our shores to seek asylum, they are vulnerable and need our support.’

Dominic Raab

Dominic Raab ruthlessly mocked for bizarre claim that police ‘don’t investigate crimes a year after they’ve been committed’

Basit Mahmood
6 December, 2021

‘Raab seemingly thinks he’s the justice secretary in Minority Report where only future crimes are of interest.’

More climate action is needed

COP26: Government must ‘walk the talk’, says climate advisors

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
5 December, 2021

Britain is ‘nowhere near’ meeting climate targets, officials warn.

Anneliese Dodds

Labour urges government to come clean over alleged hidden disability benefit cut

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
5 December, 2021

Anneliese Dodds highlighted a £70m cut to disability benefits on International Day of Persons with Disabilities.

Homophobic and transphobic hate crime soared during pandemic, report finds

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
4 December, 2021

Government’s hate crime strategy in the spotlight as new report shows rising levels of sexual orientation and transgender identity abuse.

Nifel Farage's event bolsters little support

‘Epic karma’: Plug pulled on Nigel Farage’s anti-cancel culture conference

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
4 December, 2021

It has been suggested the right-wing ‘Counter Conference’ was cancelled due to lack of support.

GB News

GB News platforms ‘misleading research about vaccines’ which is watched more than 2 million times

Basit Mahmood
3 December, 2021

The clip in which the research was cited, containing serious flaws, has been viewed more than 2 million times.

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