Tag: austerity

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 ...

In Chancellor Rachel Reeves' speech at Labour conference, she said: It is time the Treasury moved on from just counting ...

Wes Streeting is no stranger to tying himself in knots during interviews. However, at the Labour conference he showed how ...

Maybe unsurprisingly, party honchos have blocked a debate on the cuts to the winter fuel payments at this years Labour ...

Public transport provision has seen the sharpest post-pandemic decline of all the Levelling Up missions, an even bigger hit than ...

Today, a Labour MP's deleted tweet has resurfaced which shows how far detached from reality the party really is - ...

The Canary went to Southport in the wake of the tragic murders at the end of July. There, we met ...

And there you have it. A British Labour Party prime minister, barely able to contain his glee that he can ...