IPPR report calls for investment in care, health, skills and income security
The report called for spending to reach European levels, funded by taxes on high and middle-income earners
austerity
Ten years of austerity will leave behind a legacy of homelessness
“What’s troubling is that the likely future Prime Minister will probably care even less about social housing than his two predecessors.”
Refugee Week: The government is engaged in shameful hypocrisy over ‘integration’
Funding for English courses has been halved in a decade…while ministers lecture migrants and refugees about ‘integration’.
BAME communities are still being hit hardest by hostile Tory policies
A recent UN report shows in devastating detail how black and minority ethnic communities have been hit by the UK government.
Police record an increase in serious crimes amid cuts
Labour has called on the government to reverse police cuts
School cuts: The Tories are short-changing our children
The latest school funding figures show a shortfall of £5.4 billion over the past three years.
New research confirms Labour strongholds hit hardest by cuts
Labour Councils have had to administer the harshest spending cuts
Spare us the crocodile tears Heidi Allen, you voted for poverty and hunger
Conservative MP Heidi Allen announced last week that she was joining ex-Labour MP Frank Field in a nationwide ‘anti-austerity tour’ to highlight poverty and hunger across the UK. The pair have started their visit in London and Leicester, where Allen … Continued
Tory MPs jeer mention of UN report which called their policies “cruel and inhuman”
Conservatives said the report was “innapropriate” and “political”
Natalie Bennett: Brexit isn’t our real problem, but a distraction we can’t afford
We can’t fix our other problems if we’re dealing with Brexit chaos