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Even MPs agree: Care workers need more pay now
A Public Accounts Committee report this week revealed how care workers are leaving the profession due to crippling low pay – and the Government has done nothing.
Could latest ruling change people’s minds about Brexit?
Leave.EU just got fined £70,000 for breaching election law during the 2016 referendum campaign. So is ‘hard Brexit’ finally dead?
Failing to pay the national minimum wage should be a criminal offence
The number of workers on low pay is increasing and more are finding that employers are not honouring the minimum wage laws.
Home Office routinely disbelieves people – even those claiming asylum from persecution
Gillian McFadyen explains how the Windrush scandal is a direct result of institutional prejudice inside our migration services.
Here’s all the times the Lords have defeated the Tory Brexit plan
Week upon week the House of Lords has amended the government’s EU Withdrawal Bill. Here are all the amendments made to the Tories’ hard Brexit plans.
The scale of Britain’s insecure jobs crisis in now clear
Figures released by the TUC show how nearly 4 million are stuck in the precarious world of the ‘gig-economy’.
How much ending PFI would actually cost
Hint: It’s not anywhere near as much as the right would have you believe…
EXCLUSIVE: Parties’ positions on Brexit are totally unclear, say voters
Chris Leslie MP: “Labour voters are overwhelmingly opposed to a hard and destructive Brexit, so it’s time for the party’s position to start reflecting that more clearly.”
Here’s what Labour councils can do in the face of government cuts
Austerity is hitting hard – but progressive councils are finding ways around it.
BREAKING: Majority back new in-out EU referendum in event of ‘no deal’
The findings come in the wake of a government defeat on membership of the European Economic Area – and amid growing splits in the main parties.