Tag: austerity

The Labour Party government is in turmoil, marked by a significant slide in approval ratings following a controversial Spring Statement ...

Households across the UK are bracing for a series of bill increases that have come into effect today, marking the ...

Shockat Adam isn't just the optometrist who helped to free Leicester from Jon Ashworth. He's also been a consistent opponent ...

When 14 years of Tory austerity led to declining living standards, support for the ruling party collapsed, and the Labour ...

Proposed salary increases for local council bosses, averaging 12%, have provoked a backlash among community members and council workers. Amidst ...

Cancer Research UK has published a new cancer study, specifically on death rates across the UK. Crucially, it identified enormous ...

A new study has exposed a staggering fall in life expectancy growth across Europe. Crucially, it revealed that improvement in ...

Fire Brigades Union (FBU) general secretary Steve Wright has pushed back against Labour Party real-terms cut to fire and rescue ...

15 years of government cuts have decimated key public services. Politicians' prioritisation of corporate interests has left the country massively ...

Data collected by Legal Expert has cast light on the threat faced by firefighters around the UK and led to Matt Wrack, ...

Like George Osborne before her, chancellor Rachel Reeves has branded austerity as 'efficiency savings'. If successive governments have already starved ...

Researchers have linked austerity policies to an increased rate of premature and low birth weight babies in Scotland. Studies in ...

For one moment I was concerned I might not make the deadline for this latest, Labour budget-themed instalment of Swindon’s ...

Chancellor Rachel Reeves failed to use her budget to address out of control inequality nor to bring about significant or ...

Keir Starmer has shamelessly and pre-emptively defended the Labour Party's decisions on taxes and public spending which chancellor Rachel Reeves ...

Cross-party MPs including former Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn and former shadow chancellor John McDonnell have written to Rachel Reeves ...

In its budget submission published on Friday 4 October, the Trades Union Congress (TUC) sets out the challenges of the ...