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Kwarteng seeks savings from aid budget to help offset cost of tax cuts that...

The shameful Tories are now looking to cut back on international aid spending in a bid to balance the books and offset unfunded tax cuts. Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng is looking to save £5bn from...

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Number of people in London having to wait more than 12 hours in A&E jumps by...

Figures released by NHS England show that the number of people in London having to wait for more than 12 hours in A&E has risen by 47% in a single month, highlighting the sheer scale of pressures...

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Prem Sikka: The grip of big money continues to tighten over UK politics and...

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. Rishi...

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A damning chart showing just how much UK health spending has lagged behind...

The UK is the sick man of Europe, with Britons now suffering the worst access to healthcare on the continent.  Over the past year, one in six adults who have had a pressing need for medical...

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Government spends £770,000 a day to store PPE items in China

The government is squandering taxpayers’ cash, spending £770,000 a day to store personal protective equipment (PPE) items in China, which amounts to more than £280 million a year. A Parliamentary...

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Diane Abbott MP: This Tory economic mess will not heal itself

Ministers want to pour cold water on the latest dire International Monetary Fund (IMF) economic forecasts for the British economy. Jeremy Hunt argues that the IMF are not always right. True. But he...

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Graph shows how badly the Tories have failed working people

The Tories harp on a lot about ‘levelling up’ and equality of opportunity, yet the facts and evidence show that if anything they have widened inequality, not only within the country, but also between...

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Councillor slams government funding cuts for Birmingham bankruptcy

The Labour councillor for Telford, Shaun Davis, has blamed a decade of Tory funding cuts for driving Birmingham council, and other councils, into bankruptcy. Birmingham City Council declared...

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EXCLUSIVE: Majority of voters say the government does not care about...

A majority of voters say that the government does not care about levelling up, an exclusive poll for LFF has found. The poll, carried out by Savanta, found that 52% of voters believe that the...

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Family support program slashed by Tories proven to ‘significantly improve’...

A new study has revealed the success of Sure Start in England on academic outcomes, finding how the program greatly improved GCSE results for disadvantaged children, by as much as three GCSE grades....

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