Tag: austerity

Philip Alston previously produced a report which was damning of austerity policies and their continued impact across the UK.

Ministers announced plans last month to invest an extra £7.1 billion in schools in England over the next three years.

On 25 September, Jeremy Corbyn gave an interview on Radio 4's Today show. As well as addressing Labour's next step ...

BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg stood accused of 'inciting' a pile-on after she revealed the identity and political leaning of ...

Jeremy Corbyn took David Cameron down on 19 September after the former prime minister effectively said he's "very proud" of ...

Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson is currently trying to convince Britain that her party - and not Jeremy Corbyn's - ...

On 13 September, one audience member on BBC Question Time said what half of the country is probably thinking about ...

The government has confirmed plans for this autumn’s badger cull. As many as 64,000 animals will be killed across 43 ...

Shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry was on BBC Question Time on 5 September. And she raised an important issue that ...

Shadow chancellor John McDonnell embarrassed Sajid Javid with a mischievous one-liner in the Commons on 4 September. Burn McDonnell was ...

It's a reasonable time to be distracted. After all, Boris Johnson is trying to suspend parliament to push through his ...

The chancellor Sajid Javid has announced he's bringing forward the autumn spending review to 4 September. And while Javid claims ...

“Systematic failures” in public health led to the deaths of nearly 20 people including five linked to an outbreak of ...

New report Bleak houses, published by the Children's Commissioner, shows that an estimated 210,000 children are homeless. Children in the ...

Iraq war PR man Alastair Campbell has announced publicly that he no longer wants to be in the Labour Party. ...

Official figures show that 510 women have been forced to fill in a form proving they were made pregnant by ...

Noisy picket lines formed across the country from early on Friday to protest against years of what workers derided as ...