‘Austerity is nowhere near over’: IFS gives bleak assessment of budget
Things are going to get much worse, before they get better.
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A Robin Hood Tax would work. Trust me, I used to work for a hedge fund
Why is everyone still paying for the bankers’ mess – except the bankers themselves?
Universal Credit in Stafford: ‘Everyone affected by the roll-out is in rent arrears’
Even in a relatively affluent part of the UK, the new system is making people homeless and increasing dependence on food banks.
300,000 people are homeless in Britain and it’s a direct result of Tory austerity
In one London borough 1 in 25 people are homeless. It’s a crisis the government did nothing to stop.
Budget: the Chancellor’s obsession with the deficit will drive our economy into the ground
There are a number of tools available to Philip Hammond to fix our broken economy, but Tory ideology blinds him to them.
Philip Hammond’s budget will expose failed Tory economic policy once and for all
With productivity stagnant, the Chancellor may have to scrap public spending plans and increase borrowing. Tory economic legitimacy will be in tatters.
Work isn’t paying: 4 new trends that expose the state of working life in Britain
We’re getting poorer, the gender pay gap isn’t closing and inequality between regions remains rife.
Women’s refuges are closing around the country — this is the destructive reality of austerity
England is now short of 2000 refuge beds for women who have suffered domestic violence.
Thousands of parents will descend on Parliament tomorrow to demand emergency school funding
Schools have faced a £2.8bn real terms cut to budgets since 2008 and our educational institutions are close to breaking point.
LBC ‘suggests being a Labour Party member is as important as eating’, in absurd attempt to stitch up MP
Radio station accused of ‘surpassing gotcha journalism’ and relying on ‘false equivalency’, with suggestion that charging prospective party members a premium rate to join Labour is the same as forcing destitute benefits claimants to call 55p a minute line for food money.