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Scottish Greens

Exclusive: Scottish Greens co-leader sets out party’s hopes for Holyrood elections

Sophia Dourou
18 December, 2020

“We have the chance to do something new, and different, and exciting, and not be stuck, hampered by these unchangeable institutions.”

Food bank

How the Tories have allowed millions to plunge into destitution

Prem Sikka
18 December, 2020

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.

Revealed: Some English regions endure twice the public health cuts of others

Josiah Mortimer
8 December, 2020

Find out how much your region’s public health budgets got slashed before the pandemic…

A homeless man

After years of Tory neglect rough sleepers face ‘most desperate winter ever’

Sophia Dourou
7 December, 2020

Thousands more could sleep rough this Christmas period as the pandemic has significantly cut down shelter capacity, Labour has warned.

Revealed: How slashing environmental protections has actually COST businesses money

Josiah Mortimer
1 December, 2020

“Across a wide range of sectors, we are now seeing the accumulated impact of years of deregulation.”

Left-wing activists plan national Day of Action against Tories’ handling of the Covid crisis

Josiah Mortimer
22 September, 2020

Organisers insist the protests will be ‘Covid safe’ and kept under review.

Millions of pensioners are in poverty. We can’t let the Tories scrap the ‘triple lock’

Prem Sikka
19 June, 2020

Here’s how we can pay for a vital rise in the state pension next year.

Big businesses are getting bailouts. Why not our Covid-hit councils?

Pat Berryman
22 May, 2020

While tax-dodgers are handed public funds, councils are being left to sink.

“Austerity kills people” – epidemiologist warns cuts could lead to second covid wave

Joe Lo
21 May, 2020

He’s said austerity killed 40,000 people a year.

Prof Prem Sikka: We must rebuild not tax and cut

Prem Sikka
14 May, 2020

The Treasury are proposing more austerity. That must not happen.

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