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Speaking to Left Foot Forward, the former chief drugs adviser restates his call for cannabis to be legalised – and suggests he could come back into the fold.
“When even core groups of Brexit supporters start questioning their decision, it is time to reconsider whether it is still in our national interest to leave.”
Pressure is building in Momentum and the unions for a ‘People’s Vote’ on the Brexit deal.
Tory grandee William Hague has written in favour of cannabis decriminalisation. But where do other parties stand on the matter?
Workers are celebrating a Supreme Court decision to grant Pimlico Plumbers’ “self-employed” full workers rights. But there’s still much do be done, writes Asad Rehman.
Month upon month new cases of bigotry and racism crop up among the Conservative ranks. Saqlain Choudry asks why nobody is brought to account.
Universal suffrage – free of conditions such as age or property ownership – will soon celebrate its 90th anniversary. Let it be an inspiration to today’s feminists.
The PM has just announced a grand new plan to invest in the National Health Service. But with or without ‘Brexit dividend’ experts and patients know it’s not enough.
Report shows how government and local authorities are failing thousands of vulnerable kids in Britain by shoving them into B&Bs and forgetting all about them.
A new report from the National Audit Office shows just how shambolic the Tories’ all-in-one benefit scheme has been so far.
