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wealth tax
News

Revealed: Overwhelming majority of Brits support wealth tax on super-rich, according to new poll

Olivia Barber
9 July, 2025

Three-quarters of the public support introducing a 2% tax on wealth above £10 million

Right-Wing Watch

Happy birthday, NHS – But will it survive privatisation?

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
5 July, 2025

As we celebrate its 78th year, our beloved NHS faces an ongoing threat: death by privatisation. The question is: Can Labour be trusted to protect what Nye Bevan built, or will it preside over its gradual dismantling? And what would happen if, God forbid, Farage and Reform got into power?

A photo of campaigners outside the Royal Court of Justice
News

Charities urge MPs not to be swayed by government’s welfare bill concessions

Olivia Barber
27 June, 2025

‘If current protections are right for disabled people now, why are they not right for disabled people in the future?’

A photo of Liz Kendall, the Department for Work and Pensions secretary making a statement in Parliament on the WASPI women
Opinion

Kim Johnson MP: The government’s ‘concessions’ on disability benefit cuts ‘do not go anywhere near far enough’

Kim Johnson
27 June, 2025

‘They would create a two-tier benefits system where people would not be eligible for support because they became sick or disabled at a later date.’

Keir Starmer outside Number 10 Downing Street
News

What concessions has the government given Labour rebels on the welfare bill?

Olivia Barber
27 June, 2025

The government has made some fairly significant concessions, but they will only apply to existing claimants

Keir Starmer giving his speech at the EU summit this afternoon
News

Labour’s third-country asylum plan shows post-Brexit Britain is ‘in a very dark place’, says Albanian PM

Olivia Barber
26 June, 2025

He said “totally shameful” ideas about “dumping immigrants” have been normalised since Brexit

Kanishka Narayan MP mocking Nigel Farage's non-dom policy at PMQs
News

Nigel Farage’s non-doms policy mocked as ‘sweetheart deal with super-rich’ at PMQs

Olivia Barber
25 June, 2025

‘Reform UK doing sweetheart deals with the super-rich is a betrayal of British working people.’

Labour leader Keir Starmer with London Mayor Sadiq Khan
News

Sadiq Khan and Andy Burnham back growing Labour rebellion against disability benefit cuts

Olivia Barber
25 June, 2025

The Labour mayors have urged Keir Starmer to listen to MPs and rethink the cuts

A photo of Palestinian flags on poles
News

MPs raise concerns about Labour’s plan to proscribe Palestine Action as terror group

Olivia Barber
23 June, 2025

‘Such a move would be completely non-proportional and a hugely worrying restriction on the right to peaceful protest’

A photo of two children standing in front of run-down housing
News

SNP to end two-child benefit cap, as pressure mounts on Labour to do the same

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
21 June, 2025

“Families can’t wait any longer, they’ve waited for the UK government and there’s been no action.”

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