Labour will find increases in the state pension age are unacceptable, just as cuts to the Winter Fuel Allowance, personal independence payments and universal credit are — it needs to change direction immediately, writes PCS general secretary FRAN HEATHCOTE

ONE year ago Russian President Putin ordered a massive land invasion of Ukraine, escalating the conflict which had started eight years earlier with the Nato-nationalist coup against the country’s elected president Viktor Yanukovych in Kiev.
During the last year, the likeliest estimate of military casualties on both sides is around 300,000. Civilian casualties are running at around 20,000, with more than 7,000 dead.
Millions have been made refugees and the destruction across Ukraine has been immense, computed in billions of dollars.