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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

Pandemic response

The UK needs a pandemic preparedness plan to ensure Covid failures are never repeated

Mike Buckley
27 October, 2021

‘Scientists are clear that the next pandemic is coming’.

Sunak slammed for domestic flight tax

Sunak slammed for cutting taxes on domestic flights days before COP26

Basit Mahmood
27 October, 2021

‘Yes, you heard that right – @RishiSunak is making flights cheaper.  Good thing there’s no #ClimateEmergency.’

Radical Roundup

Radical Roundup: 10 stories that have got buried – Week 4, October 2021

Basit Mahmood
27 October, 2021

The news you didn’t see this week…

COP26

EXCLUSIVE: Over half of voters think COP26 summit won’t make a positive difference to climate change

Basit Mahmood
27 October, 2021

The poll found that 51% of UK adults think that the COP26 summit will not make a positive difference to climate change

Jon Trickett Covid vaccinations

Jon Trickett: A Wealth Tax is a bold policy but our times call for nothing less

Jon Trickett
27 October, 2021

‘In Britain we tax income rather than wealth. This no longer makes sense in our day and age, if it ever did’. 

Children at school development centre

What we can do to tackle racial disparities in our schools

Luna Williams
26 October, 2021

‘There has been a significant widening of longstanding gaps that result in lower outcomes for Black students in comparison with White students.’

National living wage

Why the rise in the National Living Wage won’t compensate for the cut to Universal Credit

Basit Mahmood
26 October, 2021

“It’s a good news story that low paid workers will see a decent pay increase, but it’s quite a separate question to a universal credit cut and in no way should be seen as a compensation for it”

Kent Tories

Anger after Kent Tories ‘run a sweepstake on Universal Credit cuts’

Basit Mahmood
26 October, 2021

“It’s all just a big laugh to them. They have no idea what losing over £20 a week is doing to families in Kent and across England.”

Sewage vote

Jenny Jones: Sewage and the Conservatives’ lack of clear blue water

Jenny Jones
26 October, 2021

Daily maps of the sewage dumping, along with graphic pictures of murky coastal waters have illustrated the scale of it (400,000 incidents in the last year alone).

Rishi Sunak

‘We can afford to contribute more’: UK millionaires call on chancellor to introduce wealth tax

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
25 October, 2021

‘We are proud to pay our taxes to reduce inequality, support stronger social care and the NHS,’ UK wealth holders write in a letter to Sunak.

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