8.3m people have personal debt problems — it’s a bubble waiting to burst
Personal debt in Britain stands at £200bn and grows by 10 per cent a year. Any increase in interest rates could tip millions over the edge.
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Civil servants standing down and speaking out shows the Brexit shambles we’re in
Whatever the true reasons for Olly Robbins’ move from civil servant in charge of the Department for Exiting the European Union to a new role at No. 10, it is another demonstration of the shambles behind the government’s Brexit strategy. … Continued
Students call national demo against tuition fees, after Tories lose bid to raise cap
The Conservative Party was forced to abandon plans to hike tuition fees by £250 each year, after the DUP caused them major embarrassment by backing a Labour motion to block the rise.
The government will lift 1 per cent pay cap — but their new offer is dismal
Jeremy Corbyn said at the TUC that the Labour Party “totally rejects the Tories’ attempt to divide and rule” by offering pay rises to some and not others.
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Lords Committee lambasts government’s power grab in EU withdrawal bill
Ministers are under fire from all conceivable quarters, with a former head of the Civil Service and the leader of the Scottish Conservatives also voicing concerns.
Rees-Mogg tops leader poll, but his politics are deeply regressive – even for the Tories
Some of his most vocal supporters are the ‘Tory youth movement’, Activate, who were outed as discussing ‘gassing chavs’ and ‘shooting peasants’ last week.
May drops promise to curb corporate excess, slammed by unions as “feeble”
She promised radical reform in boardrooms and that “big business needs to change”, but the plans unveiled today maintain the status quo in the City.
A quarter of Brexit voters feel misled by Vote Leave claims — new poll
A new poll finds that over fifty per cent of people think the Leave campaign had been mostly or completely misleading.
Our electoral system is hugely unrepresentative and increasingly unpredictable — new report
First-past-the-post is so broken that the Tories would have won a majority in the House of Commons if they’d picked up just 533 more votes.