5 Reform UK disasters this week
This week has seen Nigel Farage defend a Nazi salute and a homophobic joke, and U-turn on another policy pledge
Senior Reform UK figures panicking Trump links could cause them electoral damage
Panic has set in among Reform’s senior figures
The House of Lords is increasingly illegitimate
Removing hereditary peers won’t go far enough to give the Lords legitimacy
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Universal credit cut breaches human rights law, says UN envoy
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.’
Past comments on people of colour by new culture secretary Nadine Dorries cause backlash
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: 10 stories that have got buried – Week 3, September 2021
The news you didn’t see this week…
One key reason why Welsh Labour and Plaid Cymru could be doing a deal
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
“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
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
The proposals are included as a backup in the government’s Winter Plan.
Alba’s first party conference, and the emperor’s new clothes
Voters are yet to be convinced of the breakaway party led by Alex Salmond, writes Derek McArthur.
EXCLUSIVE: Claims that the SNP is not pursuing independence are ‘bollocks’, says party president
“It seems to me that the dynamism within Scottish politics is there within the SNP.”
How can trade unions organise young workers? Activists share radical lessons at #TUC21
We can’t just wait for a Labour government to swoop in, TUC Congress hears.