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23 December, 2025 (1 week ago)

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Passports not profit: Activists are getting organised against the ‘hostile environment’

Josiah Mortimer
1 October, 2018

The Home Office makes huge profits from the process of becoming a citizen – but campaigners are kicking off at the ‘extortionate’ fees.

Theresa May’s plan for a ‘Festival of Brexit’ is being ripped to shreds on social media

Josiah Mortimer
1 October, 2018

People are hilariously mocking the Tories’ new Brexit propaganda plans.

How Tory plans for Brexit trade deals put our NHS at risk #CPC18

Dr Alex Ashman Dr Louise Irvine
1 October, 2018

Jeremy Hunt’s push for free trade deals across the world is likely to open our NHS up to further private sector profiteering.

Parental Leave: Major employers agree to publish policies in bid to tackle gender inequality

Charlotte England
28 September, 2018

Lib Dem deputy leader Jo Swinson is pushing for all companies with more than 250 employees to make parental leave and pay details public.

How councils are starting to tackle dire work conditions in the care sector

Charlotte England
28 September, 2018

Carers face poverty wages, precarious employment and isolation, limiting their ability to help vulnerable people.

Will Labour’s pitch to the centre on Brexit alienate the working class?

James Hewlett
28 September, 2018

At Labour conference, Shadow Brexit Secretary Keir Starmer promised that “nobody is ruling out remain as an option.” But this could disillusion a key demographic.

Shadow Minister: “The powers of reaction will fight tooth and nail” against democracy

Josiah Mortimer
27 September, 2018

Labour MP Jon Trickett is rethinking how democracy needs reviving in Britain. And electoral reform and other constitutional changes are back on the table.

To rebuild Britain small business and state enterprise will have to come together

Kevin Gulliver
27 September, 2018

Kevin Gulliver argues that Labour will need the ‘big battalions’ of the state and the ‘little platoons’ of civic society to build a fairer Britain.

From ‘Winning Here’ to the political wilderness: what happened to the Lib Dems?

Becky Bryan
27 September, 2018

A new book by the Lib Dems’ former election guru looks at the tricks that helped the party win in the past. But where now?

Campaigners to challenge Tories on refusal to hold inquiry into Brexit cheating

Charlotte England
26 September, 2018

The Prime Minister could be forced to launch a public inquiry into overspending by the Vote Leave campaign through a judicial review.

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