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Labour tells government to ‘get a grip’ over mixed messages on Covid isolation

Josiah Mortimer
20 July, 2021

Ministers have been going around saying the public do not need to isolate when, um, told to isolate by the NHS Covid-19 app.

Asylum seekers in accommodation at Napier Barracks

DAMNING report from HM Prisons Inspector finds ‘shambolic’ outsourcing failings

LFF Reporter
20 July, 2021

Priti Patel’s department didn’t even know the location of all its short-term holding facilities for refugees.

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UnionDues: ‘Industry without art is brutality’ – meeting the Artists Union of England

Simon Sapper
20 July, 2021

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

Lucy Skoulding
19 July, 2021

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

Lucy Skoulding
19 July, 2021

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

Prem Sikka
19 July, 2021

Tories want to push their favoured insurance-backed approach, which at best will only benefit a few wealthy individuals, says Prem Sikka.

Nadhim Zahawi

Minister slammed for breaching Samaritans guidance on discussing suicide

Lucy Skoulding
19 July, 2021

The vaccines minister tried to blame lockdown as the cause of people taking their lives.

UK was not fully prepared for the Covid pandemic

“Opening on Monday is madness”: Scientists warn cases will rise as restrictions are lifted

Alexandra Warren
18 July, 2021

“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

Alexandra Warren
17 July, 2021

“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

Alexandra Warren
17 July, 2021

Unions say this is a stark example of how rules in Parliament apply only to some and not to others.

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