Clarke must listen to the Lords and save legal aid for the most vulnerable in society
Shadow justice secretary Sadiq Khan calls on Secretary of State Ken Clarke to listen to the House of Lords and abandon his proposed legal aid cuts.
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Tory and Crossbench peers lead the revolt against Clarke’s legal aid cuts
Jonny Mulligan of the Sound Off for Justice campaign reports on the latest House of Lords defeats for the government in the LASPO bill over legal aid cuts.
The coalition are turning the clock back for vulnerable women
While the coalition are turning the clock back, for Labour, securing the safety of women is at the heart of our work for equality, writes Vera Baird QC.
The financial and personal cost of the legal aid cuts laid bare
Left Foot Forward looks at the legal aid cuts, and the costs to services, people and the taxpayer of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill.
Time for Ken Clarke to deliver peers the evidence on the real cost of legal aid cuts
On the legal aid cuts and LASPO bill, the real problem Ken Clarke has is his story savings figures simply do not stack up and peers from all sides know it.
Wales faces 6,000 more children in poverty due to welfare cuts
Ed Jacobs details the full extent of the welfare cuts on Wales. They’re nasty.
Quantitative Easing is stimulating commodity trading, not the real economy
Quantitative Easing is stimulating commodity training, not the real economy. time for a ‘real’ quantitative easing, aimed and stimultaing green growth.
New growth figures point to 2012/3 deficit 50 per cent bigger than originally projected
The deficit is now set to be8.4 per cent oin 2012/3, missing Osborne’s original projection by a full 50 per cent, and one quarter above the original Darling projection
Ken vows to reverse Boris’s police cuts and “make the streets safer”
Three months out from May’s Mayoral elections, Ken Livingstone today unveiled his “policing pledge for London”, reports Left Foot Forward’s Shamik Das.
As National Libraries Day nears, our libraries remain under threat
Alex Hern reports on the launch of “Vision for a 21st-Century Library” by the shadow culture minister Dan Jarvis Labour culture team.