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Tories

Revealed: not a single person has been prosecuted under the Tories’ offshore tax evasion laws

Oscar Webb
12 March, 2018

While more and more people who can’t afford to pay council tax are being prosecuted and jailed.

Here’s everything wrong with May’s big speech on the housing crisis

Kevin Gulliver
6 March, 2018

From growing homelessness and social housing waiting lists to dropping house building, the Tories have utterly failed to address the housing crisis.

Over half of those in poverty are now from working households – work isn’t paying in Tory Britain

Oscar Webb
6 March, 2018

Stagnating wages and Tory austerity have forced millions of working families into poverty.

This Tory privatisation in the prison service is putting workers, the public and ex-offenders at risk

5 March, 2018

Staff from new private providers will not be vetted before starting work in probation hostels – the Tories are gambling with public safety.

The Tories’ childcare policies are in total disarray

Oscar Webb
28 February, 2018

In some parts of the UK, childcare now costs nearly £10,000 a year – with lower-income families among the hardest hit.

City of London

Corporations rely on a healthy functioning society but think they shouldn’t have to pay for it

Prem Sikka
27 February, 2018

And acting on this neo-liberal view, the Tory government are all too happy to cut their taxes.

We may see more Carillion-style collapses and it’s because of this outdated financial model

Prem Sikka
20 February, 2018

Like companies the world over, Carillion used Black-Scholes to value securities – a highly risky piece of maths vulnerable to market crashes.

The leaked Brexit impact papers make the case for a second referendum stronger than ever

Keith Taylor
30 January, 2018

The official analysis shows Britain will be worse off under every Brexit outcome. Now the public know the facts, it would be fair to give them another vote.

Tory grassroots confidence in May hits new low as PM faces backbench and donor despair

Oscar Webb
30 January, 2018

The PM is lacks support at every level on the party. How much longer can this zombie government stagger on for?

Watch out: Labour just forced the Tories to reveal these potentially explosive outsourcing papers

25 January, 2018

These risk assessments could be the next major embarrassment for the government.

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