Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate
Nov 15, 2024 · Trump’s victory is a wakeup call. It is time to regroup and get serious about the world we want to live in. More than 277,000 people visited a food bank in the Trussell community for the first time between April and September. “I would certainly like the opportunity to cross-examine him to see ...
Why we need to urgently reform the House of Lords
Nov 15, 2024 · The House of Lords, the UK’s second parliamentary chamber, is primarily a revising chamber and urges the government of the day to rethink some aspects of its proposed legislation. However, it is unelected and unrepresentative of the population and needs to be reformed. There are two issues facing ...
What we need to learn from Donald Trump’s election victory
Nov 15, 2024 · Trump's victory is a wakeup call. It is time to regroup and get serious about the world we want to live in. I am still in the early stages of processing the news of a Donald Trump victory in the US election. I understand that there has been a spike in Google searches of ‘how can I reverse my vote ...
Rejoiners head to London for National Rejoin March 2024, amid ...
Today – September 28 – tens of thousands of people are gathering in London, calling for Britain to rejoin the EU. Pro-EU campaigners from across Britain, Europe, and further afield, will make their way from Park Lane to Parliament Square for the third annual National Rejoin March (NRM).
A thousand workers participate in four-day working week trial …
Nov 9, 2024 · A thousand employees in Britain are getting extra time off without a reduction in pay in part of the Four-Day Week Campaign. The trial launched on November 4 and will run until April. It follows a successful similar trial in 2022, which, after reports of …
Majority of Britons say Trump’s victory will be bad for UK, poll finds
Nov 12, 2024 · A majority of Britons believe that Trump’s win in the U.S. Presidential election will be bad for the UK, according to a poll. Trump, who became the first convicted criminal to be elected US President, and who held campaign rallies filled with vitriol, has made no secret of his desire to rule with ‘unchecked power’, with human rights groups, charities and NGOs warning about the impacts of ...
How Trump’s win upends Rachel Reeves’ budget
Nov 14, 2024 · As the dust settles on Rachel Reeves’ first budget, a number of conclusions can be drawn. First, and most obviously, she inherited an economic mess, parlous Government finances and disastrous public services from her predecessors. A number of economists praised Reeves’ commitment to balance the ...
The key things to watch out for in the 76 days following the US ...
Nov 5, 2024 · Starting points. We must move away from focusing on election day to focusing on election season.; There is little doubt that we will see a wave of legal challenges. The Trump campaign for some time has been bringing legal challenges to voting processes, including most recently challenging the ability of overseas voters to vote, not because they think they can win, but to seed the ecosystem ...
Farage and Truss in meltdown over Labour volunteers helping …
Oct 23, 2024 · Over recent days, right-wingers such as Liz Truss and Nigel Farage have expressed much outrage over Labour Party volunteers making plans, in their own time, to go to the U.S. to help Kamala Harris in her campaign to defeat Donald Trump in the U.S. election.
Budget 2024: Here's how Rachel Reeves could re-build our …
Oct 28, 2024 · Adrian Ramsay is co-leader of the Green Party of England and Wales and the MP for Waveney Valley. Listen to Labour ministers answering questions about next week’s Budget and there’s one consistent soundbite – “the £40 billion black hole left by the Conservatives”.