The former Conservative MP’s clash with Gary Neville on GMB went viral, with people rejoicing as Neville ‘destroyed’ Currie in a row on Universal Credit that proves how out of touch the Tories are.
‘False or bogus self-employment is a major reason for low pay’.
‘Last year Weetabix’s profits went up by almost 20% to more than £81 million’.
‘I’ve seen how policy is developed at the highest levels of government, but also how it plays out in the day-to-day lives of people at the margins of our society. Decisions made in the abstract at the top have painfully real consequences at the bottom.’
The Joseph Rowntree Foundation says that the universal credit cut will impose the ‘biggest overnight cut to the basic rate of social security since the foundation of the modern welfare state.’
Polling also found that 58% of those asked supported private schools losing their charitable status if they did not admit a high proportion of students from deprived backgrounds
‘One reason for the persistence of inequalities is that too many legislators are far removed from the social world inhabited by marginalised people’.
‘In our first 100 days as leaders, we will meet with the UK’s leading progressive thinkers and movements to understand and promote the best ideas for a low-carbon future’
There was a widening of the gap for poorer students on free school meals, who scored on average 0.1 of a grade lower compared with 2019.
‘76% of people ‘didn’t know’ what politicians meant when they talked about a ‘culture war’.
