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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

How a wealth tax could bring in more than £200bn in extra revenue to fund public services

Basit Mahmood
21 October, 2021

‘The accumulation of wealth is largely ignored. It’s time for this to change.’

Sajid Javid press conference

British Medical Association slams government for being ‘wilfully negligent’ for not enforcing Covid ‘Plan B’

Basit Mahmood
21 October, 2021

‘The Westminster Government said it would enact ‘Plan B’ to prevent the NHS from being overwhelmed; as doctors working on the frontline, we can categorically say that time is now.’

A photo of a pile of newspapers with the text 'Radical Roundup' overlaid

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

Basit Mahmood
20 October, 2021

The news you didn’t see this week…

Cleaners win better pay at university of Sheffield

Cleaning staff win campaign for £10 per hour wage at University of Sheffield

Basit Mahmood
20 October, 2021

The University’s management have now signed an agreement with Unite representatives to confirm the decision to increase the workers’ pay from £9.52 to £10 an hour.

A photo of people working in an office

EXCLUSIVE: Majority of UK voters want a four-day working week, poll finds

Basit Mahmood
20 October, 2021

60% of those asked were in favour of introducing a four-day working week in the UK, compared to 26% who opposed the move

A mechanic repairing a boiler

Why government grants to replace gas boilers with heat pumps don’t go far enough

Basit Mahmood
19 October, 2021

Although up to 25 million UK homes have gas boilers, the grants will fund just 90,000 pumps over three years

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

EXCLUSIVE: 60% of UK adults support bringing energy companies back into public ownership, poll finds

Basit Mahmood
19 October, 2021

73% of Labour Party voters supported bringing energy companies back into public ownership, as did 60% of Conservative Party voters

Labour Party Rosette

What Labour needs to do to attract alienated working class voters

Sam Hill
19 October, 2021

What the Labour Party need is a sufficient narrative which bestows upon working people not only material benefits, but also something more- a degree of recognition

A person's hands running a Covid test

Government told it must reveal the names of companies who were in ‘VIP lane’ for Covid contracts

Basit Mahmood
19 October, 2021

The Information Commissioner has ordered the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) to disclose the names of the 47 companies within 35 calendar days.

Wind turbines on the horizon

Switching to green power would save £20 trillion in global energy costs – report

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
18 October, 2021

A rapid swap from fossil fuels to renewable energy would save the world ‘hundreds of billions of dollars a year’, a ground-breaking report has found.

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