by Agency Reporter | Mar 15, 2022 | Briefing
OVER A THIRD (34 per cent) of households, 23.4 million people, will be unable to afford the cost of living by £8,600 on average by April 2022, according to new analysis by the New Economics Foundation (NEF). This figure includes nearly half (48 per cent) of all...
by Agency Reporter | Mar 15, 2022 | Briefing
THE TUC HAS WRITTEN to Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng warning that workers’ safety is being put at risk by confusion created by guidance announced by the Prime Minister on Covid-19 and workplace risk assessments. The Prime Minister’s ‘Living with Covid’ plan,...
by Staff Writer | Mar 14, 2022 | Briefing
GOVERNMENT MINISTERS and opposition politicians have been urged not to heed calls by former Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt to increase UK military spending by more than 50 per cent. The Peace Pledge Union (PPU), Britain’s leading pacifist network, said that...
by Agency Reporter | Mar 14, 2022 | Briefing
THE RECENT ESCALATION IN VIOLENCE combined with a plunging war economy and a devastating humanitarian crisis are inflicting new levels of hardship and suffering on a Syrian civilian population that has endured over ten years of conflict, a new report by the UN Syria...
by Agency Reporter | Mar 13, 2022 | Briefing
LOCAL AUTHORITIES ARE CRUCIAL to the delivery of the UK’s transition to a cleaner, greener future, say Friends of the Earth and the climate charity Ashden, as they publish a new resource for councils and campaigners. The two organisations have drawn together a set of...
by Agency Reporter | Mar 12, 2022 | Briefing
A NEW REPORT commissioned by the Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) in Scotland from the Centre for Research in Social Policy at Loughborough University has analysed the impact Scottish government policies and lower childcare costs have on the cost of bringing up a...
