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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Petition for John Lewis workers to earn a Real Living Wage reaches 15,000 signatures
Organisers described the low wages as “insulting” after employees had worked throughout the pandemic.
What would it take for a second referendum on Scottish independence to be held?
A senior Cabinet minister has revealed how much support would be needed for it to go ahead.
Union agrees timeline to recall conference to debate disaffiliation from The Labour Party
Reports have suggested BFAWU national president Ian Hodson could be facing expulsion from the party for a possible connection to one of four groups Labour have proscribed.
Universal credit cuts will have ‘deep and far-reaching impact’, says poverty charity
‘To give people enough relief to offset their problems, even just a little bit, and then to take it away, feels cruel,’ says one victim of the cuts.
Extinction Rebellion: Government must end investment in fossil fuels immediately
“We know that mass participation and civil disobedience works”.
Prof Prem Sikka: Why audits of major corporations need to be performed by a state body and not chummy auditors
‘Profit-seeking accounting firms cannot deliver honest and robust audits. But the government continues to indulge the auditing industry’.
Tories slammed after ordering NHS trusts to describe refurbishments as ‘new hospitals’
The guidance issued to trusts goes on to define what constitutes a new hospital.
Always learning: our manifesto for liberation, within the Green Party and beyond
‘It’s easy to assume that as time moves forward, our society becomes more progressive and accepting of previously marginalised groups. But the last few years have shown us that there is always a risk of sliding backwards on the rights of minorities’.
How the upcoming Elections Bill will cause chaos with EU citizens’ voting rights
‘As it stands, the Elections Bill will disenfranchise countless citizens who do not qualify for the EU Settlement Scheme’.
EXCLUSIVE: Voters support abolishing private schools
Polling also found that 58% of those asked supported private schools losing their charitable status if they did not admit a high proportion of students from deprived backgrounds