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REVEALED: Unite union reps report surge in mental health issues at work

John Earls
27 April, 2021

While some employers have stepped up during the pandemic, it’s public health bodies which are side-lining union reps.

Four years of the Tories’ two-child limit: Here’s what it’s done

Lucy Skoulding
8 April, 2021

If the Tory policy was scrapped now 200,000 children would immediately be lifted out of poverty

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Welsh elections: Labour, Plaid Cymru and Lib Dems’ key policies

Lucy Skoulding
7 April, 2021

A rundown of the key manifesto points for three major parties

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The government’s ‘mental health recovery plan’ is an act of political gaslighting

Tom Pollard
31 March, 2021

As a social worker, I know just how much this plan misses the mark.

Revealed: Benefit cap hurting nearly 200,000 households

Josiah Mortimer
30 March, 2021

The vast majority of households hit by the cap are families with children.

Revealed: Chancellor’s secret wave of austerity on the horizon

Lucy Skoulding
22 March, 2021

Britain may be headed for a new period of Tory austerity, according to IFS analysis

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Claudia Webbe MP: Deporting rough sleepers is counter-productive and cruel

Claudia Webbe
19 March, 2021

It will push foreign rough sleepers away from help and into the arms of exploiters.

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The new kind of automation putting gig economy workers at risk of destitution

Andrew Kersley
16 March, 2021

Drivers report being ‘terminated’ through ‘no reply’ emails, and unable to challenge dismissals, in a worrying development for workers.

Prof Prem Sikka: This budget shows ‘levelling up’ is just a slogan

Prem Sikka
4 March, 2021

The budget will plunge more people into poverty and foodbank queues.

Radical Roundup

Radical Roundup: 10 stories that have got buried – Week 1 March 2021

Josiah Mortimer
3 March, 2021

Left Foot Forward’s roundup of the progressive news you might have missed this week…

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