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Inequality

Rishi Sunak speaking at the dispatch box in the House of Commons at PMQs

Rishi Sunak earned nearly £5 Million in the last 3 Years

Basit Mahmood
23 March, 2023 (4 days ago)

On the money he made, Sunak paid income tax and capital gains tax totalling £1,053,060.

Rent

The freeze on Local Housing Allowance is only increasing the financial pain for renters

Wera Hobhouse MP
21 March, 2023 (6 days ago)

We have called for the Local Housing Allowance to be unfrozen so that benefits are more closely aligned with the rate of rent in an area

Rishi Sunak speaking at the dispatch box in the House of Commons at PMQs

Graph shows how badly the Tories have failed working people

Basit Mahmood
20 March, 2023 (1 week ago)

UK living standards have fallen behind those of other industrialised countries

Sarah Olney

‘Tackling inequality is the key to economic growth’ – Sarah Olney interview

Hannah Davenport
19 March, 2023 (2 weeks ago)

MP Sarah Olney said that Liberal Democrats are ‘hungry for change’

Rishi Sunak speaking at the dispatch box in the House of Commons at PMQs

A graph which perfectly sums up Tory economic failure

Basit Mahmood
16 March, 2023 (2 weeks ago)

Living standards are expected to undergo the largest two-year decline since records began in 1956-57.

Hunt

Jeremy Hunt slammed for tax giveaway to the richest 1% while ordinary people struggle

Basit Mahmood
16 March, 2023 (2 weeks ago)

‘Not a dickie bird on public sector pay.’

Jeremy Hunt

Why the budget fails ordinary people and benefits the rich

Prem Sikka
16 March, 2023 (2 weeks ago)

Instead of addressing the real problems faced by people, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s budget has delivered the usual cocktail of austerity, low wages, higher taxes for the masses, and tax cuts for corporations and the rich.

Sunak PMQS

Millionaire Rishi Sunak ‘pays to upgrade electricity grid to heat his private pool’

Basit Mahmood
13 March, 2023 (2 weeks ago)

Multi-millionaire Sunak, has had to pay to upgrade his electricity grid because his private swimming pool uses so much energy.

A pile of newspapers with text overlaid reading "Voices on the Left"

Voices on the Left: 5 blogs from the left you need to read this week

Basit Mahmood
3 February, 2023

A roundup of news on the left…

An image showing bank notes and pound coins

UK’s poorest households are £40 a month worse off a month, as richest gain similar sum

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
24 January, 2023

Research unveils how inflation is hitting those on the lowest incomes the hardest.

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