The SNP is clashing with workers over COP26 legacy
The COP 26 international climate summit loomed over the 2021 SNP conference, but its legacy is contested by workers.
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Ian Blackford slams ‘new Tory poll tax’ of National Insurance hike
Ian Blackford has slammed plans by the UK’s Conservative government to hike National Insurance (NI) as a “new Tory poll tax” and claimed that independence is the only answer to a new wave of “austerity”.
Amelia Womack and Tamsin Omond: Our first 100 days as Green Party co-leaders
‘In our first 100 days as leaders, we will meet with the UK’s leading progressive thinkers and movements to understand and promote the best ideas for a low-carbon future’
Prof Prem Sikka: Don’t fall for the Tory ‘levelling up’ mantra, they’re still continuing with austerity
‘The government’s mantra is that it is rebuilding the post-Covid economy by ‘levelling-up’, but it is hard to discern any policy that is reducing inequalities’.
Alyn Smith: A bright future for the next generation? Not under this Tory government
Behind the rhetoric, real-world consequences of Tory policies are destroying the hopes and ambitions of the next generation, writes Alyn Smith, MP.
Revealed: Chancellor’s secret wave of austerity on the horizon
Britain may be headed for a new period of Tory austerity, according to IFS analysis
The government needs to protect domestic abuse shelters for women
Campaigners are calling for the government to protect lifesaving women’s domestic abuse services.
Plaid Cymru MP: Poor children in Wales failed by school meals policy
Free schools meals are failing to reach many of those who need them most in Wales.
Exclusive: Scottish Greens co-leader sets out party’s hopes for Holyrood elections
“We have the chance to do something new, and different, and exciting, and not be stuck, hampered by these unchangeable institutions.”
How the Tories have allowed millions to plunge into destitution
Poverty and destitution are not the outcome of some invisible hand of fate, but the that of government policies and unresponsive economic and political institutions.
