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The Tory laws we need to overturn for women to reach their full potential
Almost a decade of right-wing policies have had a devastating impact on services, pay, housing and health. A transformative change is needed for women and our wider communities, says RUTH HAYES
As six out of 10 Argentines don’t vote for Milei LEONEL POBLETE CODUTTI looks at the country’s real crisis that runs far deeper than just the ballot box
ANDREW MURRAY looks back on the ignominious career of the former US vice-president, who died earlier this week
STEPHEN ARNELL wonders at the family resemblance between former prince Andrew and his great-uncle ‘Dickie’
After Zohran Mamdani’s electoral win, BHABANI SHANKAR NAYAK points to the forgotten role of US communists in New York’s radical politics
The Labour leadership’s narrow definition of ‘working people’ leads to distorted and unjust Budget calculations, where the unearned income of the super-wealthy doesn’t factor in at all, argues JON TRICKETT MP
IT IS easy to feel overwhelmed by the cumulative impact of a decade of austerity on women, and to restrict our vision of what could be possible.
The scale is staggering — as Dawn Butler MP has highlighted, 86 per cent of the government’s spending cuts have fallen on women.
The results are more and more visible: street homelessness is rising disproportionately rapidly among women, the majority of foodbank users are women, and the gender pay gap is over 18 per cent, with women making up almost three-quarters of part-time workers.
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As the government ploughs ahead with £3 billion in welfare cuts, arbitrary office-return mandates, and below-inflation pay rises, women will bear the brunt through deepening poverty and increased caring burdens, argues FRAN HEATHCOTE
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