1 in 7 children of public sector workers are in poverty – and Tory austerity got us here
That’s 550,000 children – up 150,000 since 2010 when the Tories started the public sector pay freeze.
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Tory hardliners will use the Oxfam tragedy to try to cut oversees aid. We can’t let them
The new international development Secretary and arch Brexiteer Penny Mourdant has already pledged that aid will only be given in the “national interest”.
Is this the beginning of the end for the £200bn PFI disaster? It’s been a long time coming
“The outsourcing party is over” Labour will promise today – and the call to end PFI is supported by some unlikely figures.
Toby Young is totally unfit to govern our university sector
Time and again the free school zealot has shown that his views are incompatible with an open and inclusive education system.
Budget LIVE: Progressives respond to Hammond’s Autumn Statement
Here’s what the left has to say about the Chancellor’s Autumn Statement.
Here’s why immigration detention is pointless – as well as cruel
The Government is detaining more migrants each year but deporting proportionally fewer, wasting money in the process and causing unnecessary harm to thousands of people.
The Greens are right to call for consent lessons for MPs
Many in Westminster don’t understand the power dynamics at play between male MPs, senior political party figures and other staff like assistants and researchers.
Philip Hammond’s budget will expose failed Tory economic policy once and for all
With productivity stagnant, the Chancellor may have to scrap public spending plans and increase borrowing. Tory economic legitimacy will be in tatters.
Thousands of parents will descend on Parliament tomorrow to demand emergency school funding
Schools have faced a £2.8bn real terms cut to budgets since 2008 and our educational institutions are close to breaking point.
Poor children missing out on chance to develop life skills, report finds
Participation in after school activities like volunteering and debating is falling, especially among children from disadvantaged backgrounds.