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What the government needs to do to bring down energy bills and tackle the cost of living crisis
‘61% of people are already paying more for their energy bills than they did this time last year’.
Radical Roundup: 10 stories that have got buried – Week 4, January 2022
The news you didn’t see this week…
EXCLUSIVE: Over 70% of voters think the government has not done enough to tackle cost of living crisis, poll finds
64% of Conservative Party voters also feel that the government has not done enough as do 78% of Labour voters, 74% of Lib Dem voters and 93% of Green Party voters.
The UK government’s economic policies have also contributed to the Covid death toll
‘A public inquiry needs to go deeper and consider the effects of government economic policies, corporate profiteering and low pay on daily life.’
Radical Roundup: 10 stories that have got buried – Week 3, January 2022
The news you didn’t see this week…
UK poverty report: 1.8 million children are growing up in deep poverty
There are 500,000 more children living in significant poverty in 2019/20 compared to 2011/12
From crisis to catastrophe: Why the cost of living crisis will soon overshadow the pandemic
‘The biggest sticking point for Wales is that we do not control all the economic levers’
Radical Roundup: 10 stories that have got buried – Week 1, January 2022
The news you didn’t see this week…
Prof Prem Sikka: The Tory government has used the cover of Brexit for its never-ending class wars
‘Promises can enrol people but many can’t easily be delivered.’