‘What we want is a socialist Green New Deal with public ownership’ – FBU vice president Ben Selby
Left Foot Forward spoke to Ben Selby at the TUC’s 2022 congress
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Voices on the Left: 5 blogs from the left you need to read this week
A roundup of progressive news…
Why we should all be worried about the government’s dangerous deregulation plan
There is little appreciation that rights and protections embodied in regulation are the outcome of generations of struggles to safeguards lives, homes, jobs, savings, property rights, dignity, and freedom from discrimination.
Liz Truss left humiliated and speechless in series of local radio interviews trying to defend disastrous policies
“Where have you been”
Voices on the Left: 5 blogs from the left you need to read this week
A round of progressive news…
Liz Truss is planning a “full frontal assault on working people” – Frances O’Grady interview
TUC general secretary Frances O’Grady speaks to Left Foot Forward about the government’s plans for workers’ rights, the current wave of strikes and how trade unions can help tackle the climate crisis
Message for the Chancellor: Public health is an economic issue
‘What the government is resolutely refusing to acknowledge, let alone address, is the crisis of people who aren’t working not because they don’t have to financially, not because they’re choosing a life of leisure, but simply because they can’t, due to ill health’
Wera Hobhouse MP: Liz Truss’s intervention does not go far enough
The cap Liz Truss would implement, at £2,500, still means your energy bills have doubled since this time last year
Report shows little progress in identifying earthquake risk, as drilling licences expected to be issued next week
As fracking companies call for earthquake limits to be reduced and exploratory drilling could start as early as next week, a report shows reducing and predicting earthquake risk remains a ‘scientific challenge’
‘Cabinet of cronies’: Sunak supporters ditched in Truss’s brutal cabinet clear-out
Within minutes of the new PM receiving the keys to No 10, Shapps, Raab, Barclay and Eustice were sacked, replaced by Truss loyalists.