Category - UK government

January 10, 2017

TUC analysis shows unsecured household debt at new peak

New analysis by the TUC shows that household debt rose sharply over 2016, with unsecured debt reaching new highs.
January 5, 2017

New report highlights danger of Iraqi militias acquiring UK arms

The UK should halt all arms exports to Iraq unless it can demonstrate that it has reliable safeguards against British weaponry ending up in the hands of Iraqi government-supported Shia militias with a grisly track record of human rights abuses, said Amnesty International today.
January 4, 2017

Government accused of double standards over Briton in US courts

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office is facing claims of double standards after it ruled out helping an elderly British citizen in a US court, despite giving similar legal assistance to oil firm BP.
December 21, 2016

UK urged to stop arming Saudi Arabia after admission on cluster bombs

The Defence Secretary, Michael Fallon, has told parliament that the Saudi Arabia-led military coalition has used UK manufactured cluster munitions in its ongoing bombardment of Yemen.
December 20, 2016

May must ‘show leadership’ on EU migrants’ right to remain

The TUC and the British Chambers of Commerce have published an open letter to the Prime Minister calling on her to end the uncertainty for workers and businesses by confirming that the government will give current EU migrants a right to remain after Brexit.
December 19, 2016

Theresa May urged to act as Saudi executions pass 150 this year,

Saudi Arabia has executed at least 153 people this year, nearing last year's record high of 158, according to figures collated by the human rights organisation Reprieve.
December 15, 2016

UK urged to follow US in reducing Saudi Arabia arms sales

The United States is to reduce arms exports to Saudi Arabia, including the halting of a planned export of air-dropped munitions, due to concerns about civilian deaths in Yemen. Campaign Against Arms Trade has urged the UK government to end its arms exports to the Saudi regime.
December 14, 2016

Briton on Ethiopia death row two years without family phone call

A British man on death row in Ethiopia has gone two years without a phone call to his family in London. Andargachew ‘Andy’ Tsege last spoke to his partner and three children on 14 December 2014.
December 14, 2016

Syrian families to spend first Christmas in safety in UK

Families who were forced to flee the brutal Syrian conflict will be spending their first Christmases in safety in Hertfordshire. So far 62 people have arrived in Hertfordshire as part of the Government’s Syrian Vulnerable Person’s Relocation (SVPR) scheme.
December 12, 2016

Peace activists to take government to court over Trident

Angie Zelter, the founder of Trident Ploughshares, is set to prosecute the government for conspiring to commit war crimes.