Reform’s year in power in local government: A year of tax rises, cuts and defections
Nothing but broken promises, council tax rises and infighting among its councillors.
Latest poverty figures show vital benefits that lifting two-child limit will have, TUC says
The TUC has slammed the record numbers of people living in poverty as ‘a record of the failures of the Conservative government’
Nigel Farage says council tax ‘has to go up’, after his party previously promised to cut taxes
That has always been the problem with populism, offer simplistic solutions to complex problem which begin to fall apart when they collide with reality.
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Many of their members got no support from the coronavirus income protection schemes, Simon Sapper writes.
Health and social care workers ‘appalled’ at exemption from self-isolation
From today, frontline NHS and social care staff in England won’t have to isolate after being pinged by the app
Ken Loach and Bakers’ Union president could be expelled from the Labour Party on Tuesday
Certain left-wing groups are set to be proscribed from the Labour Party as Sir Keir Starmer pushes to get rid of “toxic extremism”.
Prof Prem Sikka: Why we must resist the Elderly Social Care (Insurance) Bill
Tories want to push their favoured insurance-backed approach, which at best will only benefit a few wealthy individuals, says Prem Sikka.
Minister slammed for breaching Samaritans guidance on discussing suicide
The vaccines minister tried to blame lockdown as the cause of people taking their lives.
“Opening on Monday is madness”: Scientists warn cases will rise as restrictions are lifted
“Who knows where we’ll be in six weeks’ time, but it’s not going to be anywhere better than we are now,” says Professor Christine Pagel.
Watchdogs’ report describes “cycle” of increasingly low rape prosecutions
“We need a criminal justice system that understands trauma, puts victims and survivors at its heart and is accountable,” says Rape Crisis England & Wales.
“A safe working environment is not a choice, it is an obligation”: MP mask row grows
Unions say this is a stark example of how rules in Parliament apply only to some and not to others.
Gerard Coyne: “Obsessing around Westminster politics isn’t what I intend to be involved in”
LFF speaks to the Unite leadership candidate.
The powers of the Lord Advocate in Scotland need splitting
‘The ongoing row in Scotland over the role of the Lord Advocate is of fundamental importance to Scottish democracy’.