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Social justice campaigners are furious at the government after Tories ditch...

According to The Times this Tuesday, the Conservative Party has abandoned any discussion on social inequality, for fear it will help boost Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party’s popularity.  The Prime...

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Here’s how much cash governments around the world are diverting to big...

Skyrocketing CEO pay, employment figures that mask in work poverty, and growing homelessness. Ten years since the financial crisis, as the countless headlines illustrate, for the majority of people,...

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Why we’re launching a movement for compassion in politics

Hearing the latest news from Westminster, you’d be forgiven for reaching for the metaphorical remote and trying to turn the whole thing off. The former foreign secretary Boris Johnson labels an entire...

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Prem Sikka: Why we should resist the rush to a cashless society

Perhaps contrary to popular belief, cash remains king for most Britons. 97% of population carries notes and coins in its wallets and 80% of people pay taxi drivers, newspaper sellers, window cleaners...

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Theresa May is still blaming the poor for the plight of the JAMS

  May says she wants to defend the poor. But she continues to blame them for the plight of the ‘just managing’. In her ‘shared society’ speech last week, the Prime Minister said she wants to tackle the...

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Campaigners take government back to court over redacted post-Brexit trade...

The Department for International Trade (DIT) is facing a tribunal hearing today over an ongoing dispute involving whether papers from the post-Brexit trade deal that had been heavily redacted, met the...

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The UK’s tax system is regressive, rewards the wealthy and is in urgent need...

Prem Sikka is an Emeritus Professor of Accounting at the University of Essex and the University of Sheffield, a Labour member of the House of Lords, and Contributing Editor at Left Foot Forward. UK...

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Small Boats Legislation: Liberal Democrats vote unanimously against Tories...

In an emergency motion brought to debate at the Liberal Democrat conference today, members voted unanimously both in-person and online to reject the Tory Government’s Illegal Migration Bill. The...

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Illegal Migration Bill suffers multiple defeats in House of Lords

The widely condemned Illegal Migration Bill faced a string of defeats in the House of Lords last night as it passed through its report stage, including an amendment to force the bill to comply with...

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To win, Labour needs an inspiring message about fairness

Mike Buckley is the director of the Independent Commission on UK-EU Relations and a former Labour Party adviser  Keir Starmer was midway through his education speech last week when two student members...

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