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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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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.

Great Ormond Street migrant cleaners ballot for strike action amid allegations of ‘two tier’ workforce

Josiah Mortimer
15 September, 2021

“All we are asking for is equality with the rest of the NHS staff. We are tired of being treated like second class workers.”

11 things wrong with the Tories’ cut to Universal Credit and Working Tax Credits

Josiah Mortimer
15 September, 2021

The government’s arguments fall apart quite quickly when you scratch the surface.

Tories have made 10 u-turns on vaccine passports, Lib Dems say

Josiah Mortimer
14 September, 2021

The proposals are included as a backup in the government’s Winter Plan.

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