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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

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A photo of coins on top of an article explaining that Energy companies are raising prices

Prof Prem Sikka: Why the privatisation of the UK energy market has been a disaster

Prem Sikka
3 December, 2021

‘One of the aims of privatisation was to separate production and retailing of energy but that is not how it turned out.’

Desmond Swayne

Tory MP slammed after saying ‘voters have a right to elect a misogynist or racist’

Basit Mahmood
3 December, 2021

The comments were made by Sir Desmond Swayne

A stick reading "Vote Labour"

Old Bexley and Sidcup: Labour receives biggest increase in vote share in any parliamentary by-election since 2016

Basit Mahmood
3 December, 2021

Although the Tories held the seat, they did so with a significantly reduce majority from nearly 19,000 to 4,478.

Priti Patel

2 in 5 people from an ethnic minority background could become eligible to be deprived of their citizen status without warning

Basit Mahmood
2 December, 2021

Nearly 6 million people could find themselves being impacted by clause nine of the Nationality and Borders bill

Ban fire and rehire

Victory for workers: Fire and rehire at shoe manufacturer Clarks is defeated

Basit Mahmood
2 December, 2021

Nearly 1 in 10 workers have been told to re-apply for their jobs on worse terms and conditions since the first lockdown in March.

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Hancock urged to explain how his pub landlord won multi-million pound Covid contract

Basit Mahmood
2 December, 2021

Yet more evidence has emerged…

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Radical Roundup: 10 stories that have got buried – Week 1, December 2021

Basit Mahmood
1 December, 2021

The news you didn’t see this week…

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How Oxford is building a trans-inclusive Council

Lucy Pegg
1 December, 2021

‘We have a responsibility to fight with the same fire and determination for the rights of our transgender and non-binary friends’

Boris Johnson scratching his head

The Tories are on track to lose their majority, according to new analysis

Chris Jarvis
1 December, 2021

“The probability of a Labour-led government is now more likely than not.”

Azeem Rafiq

Racism is not banter, it shouldn’t take a cricket scandal for people to believe that

Roxana Khan-Williams
1 December, 2021

‘The road to a more equitable society involves an uncomfortable path, but it is a path worth taking’

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