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Inequality

News

Northern women face deep inequalities and urgent need for change, report warns

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
10 May, 2025 (2 weeks ago)

“It’s a damning reminder of the deep inequalities women in the North continue to face in health, in work, and in opportunity.”

Rachel Reeves holding the budget briefcase outside Number 11 Downing Street
Opinion

Here’s how Rachel Reeves’ Spring Statement must offer hope

Prem Sikka
7 March, 2025

‘The government needs to recalibrate policies’

Musk
News

Billionaires’ wealth rises by over £230billion in first month of 2025 alone

Basit Mahmood
25 February, 2025

The #TaxTheSuperRich movement said it would take 15million workers on a global average income an entire year to collectively earn the same amount of cash.

News

Bus cuts hit poorest areas 10 times harder

Olivia Barber
8 January, 2025

‘Neglecting England’s buses has had serious environmental, social and economic consequences’

house-commons
Opinion

How our democracy has been hijacked by corporations and wealthy elites

Prem Sikka
3 January, 2025

The only effective remedy is to ban all private donations, or bribes, to political parties.

Rachel reeves
Opinion

The budget has missed an opportunity to create a fairer tax system, reduce inequalities and boost people’s purchasing power

Prem Sikka
31 October, 2024

The government will need to abandon Tory economic policies, redistribute income and wealth, eradicate poverty, strengthen worker rights, and take essential services in public ownership.

Rachel Reeves holding the budget briefcase outside Number 11 Downing Street
News

Chart shows how poorest households gain most, while wealthiest pay most after Labour’s budget

Basit Mahmood
31 October, 2024

With economists and analysts still digesting Labour’s first budget in 14 years, one thing is becoming increasingly clear, those on lower incomes stand to benefit the most while the wealthiest households will pay the most. Chancellor Rachel Reeves set outtest

Rachel Reeves
Opinion

New Economics Foundation: Here’s what Rachel Reeves needs to do in the budget to fix our economy

Chaitanya Kumar
25 October, 2024

The chancellor has a unique opportunity to set the country on a course toward greater resilience, better living standards and ecological sustainability. Here’s what we hope she will address next week.

An image showing bank notes and pound coins
Opinion

The power of finance and capital is maintained by sacrificing the lives of innocent people

Prem Sikka
11 October, 2024

The high priests of neoliberalism do not want to shackle capital or curb profiteering.

Keir Starmer outside Number 10 Downing Street

The government must abandon Tory policies and give people hope

Prem Sikka
30 August, 2024

The government is continuing with Tory policies which would deepen despair and push more people into the arms of right-wing extremists.

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