Tag: Labour Party

Richard Burgon, MP for Leeds East, has asked questions about Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) plans for people on ...

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is under mounting pressure after campaigners representing millions of women born in the 1950s officially filed a judicial review application, accusing the government of failing to right decades of pension injustice.

DWP under pressure as details of WASPI pensions legal action made public

by Steve Topple

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is under mounting pressure after campaigners representing millions of women born in the ...

Abolish billionaires Elon Musk Climate Resistance

Elon Musk and his billionaire ‘broligarchy’ were just at the UK parliament. Kind of…

Climate activists have thrown the excessive wealth of the super-rich 'billionaire broligarchy' into the spotlight in a powerful projection display ...

Social housing is in crisis with waiting times through the roof

Social housing on the brink as decades of Labour-Tory failure come to a head

by James Wright

Families are now waiting more than 100 years for social housing in some areas of the UK, according to analysis ...

A new DWP petition is challenging the government's cuts to benefits - and it's from someone in Liz Kendall's constituency

A disabled person from Liz Kendall’s constituency has launched a petition against her brutal DWP cuts

by Hannah Sharland

9 April 2025

A chronically ill, disability rights activist has launched a vital new petition. It's to urge the Labour Party government to ...

Keir Starmer has exempted cars like Bentleys and Aston Martins from the EV mandate

Keir Starmer just exempted posh people’s cars from the EV mandate

by James Wright

The UK government has reviewed the rules for its petrol and diesel vehicle sale ban and decided that posh cars ...

The extent of fuel poverty across England has truly been revealed - and Birmingham is hit hardest

The scandal of fuel poverty has just been mapped – and the results are shocking

by Steve Topple

An alarming new interactive map has revealed the extent of 'fuel poverty' in England, exposing a grim reality for many ...

What are Freeports and why has labour agreed to them?

Freeports: what are they, and why did Labour sign off on them with the Tories?

by David Powell

“Freeports represent a significant threat to the well-being of Britain” - Richard Murphy, tax expert and political economist. “I think ...

EveryDoctor is running a campaign to stop Trump buying the NHS as part of US-UK trade deal

Starmer must be stopped from putting the NHS on the table in Trump trade negotiations

by Hannah Sharland

More than 7,500 people have sent letters to prime minister Keir Starmer - via EveryDoctor - demanding that he keeps ...

Our water bills are significantly higher because of water privatisation

How much higher are our water bills because of privatisation? A lot.

by James Wright

A University of Greenwich study for We Own It has found a "privatisation tax" of 35% on our water bills. ...

The UK tax gap is now £40bn – as corporations fail to pay more than ever before

The latest analysis by finance specialists, RIFT, reveals the UK’s tax gap has increased by 21% in the past decade and ...

Temporary accommodation in the UK is killing children

74 children have died due to living in temporary accommodation – and politicians are to blame

74 children have died while living in government-assigned temporary accommodation where a lack of permanent housing was listed as a ...

DWP benefits Labour has an attitude reminiscent of fascists throughout history

DWP benefits being cut are the thin end of the wedge. It’s Labour’s ideology which is terrifying.

by Rachel Curtis

I'll be honest: I have voted Labour all my life. I grew up in a Northumbrian mining town and come ...

Labour's failure to scrap the two-child limit has plunged another 30,000 children into poverty since July 2024

Labour has already thrown an extra 30,000 children into poverty since July 2024

by Steve Topple

The Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) has raised urgent concerns about the devastating effects of the Department for Work and ...

The DWP disability benefit cuts are a feminist issue

Make no mistake: disability benefit cuts are a feminist issue

by Charli Clement

6 April 2025

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) disability benefit cuts affect all disabled people - there’s no doubt about that. ...

Campsfield House detention centre protests

Labour wants to reopen a controversial refugee detention centre – but people are fighting back

by Charlie Jaay

6 April 2025

After 25 years of local and national protests, Campsfield House Immigration Removal Centre (IRC) in Kidlington, Oxfordshire, finally closed its ...

Is pig sh*t smarter than Kemi Badenoch – asks almost everyone in the UK