Latest editorial
A DAMNING National Audit Office (NAO) report lays bare the government’s “wilful indifference” to the police funding crisis, Labour said today.
Whitehall’s spending watchdog warned that overall funding to forces has fallen by 19 per cent in real terms since 2010-11 while police confront rising levels of recorded “high-harm” crimes and a heightened terrorist threat.
The NAO added that the Home Office’s “light touch” approach meant it did not know whether the police system was financially sustainable.
DYLAN MURPHY reports that far from helping people back into work, the sanctions regime is inflicting unnecessary trauma on working-class families
To quell the public anger and silence the far right, Labour has rushed out a report so that it can launch a National Inquiry — ANN CZERNIK examines Baroness Casey’s incendiary audit and finds fatal flaws that fail to 'draw a line' under the scandal as hoped
'A wholesale betrayal of the people and our environment'