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

IT’S hard to overstate the importance of the coming general election.
As well as the survival of our welfare state, the future of housing policy is in the balance.
What’s left of council housing is at risk, along with any other alternatives to the failing market system.

GLYN ROBBINS celebrates how tenant-led campaigning forced the government to drop Pay to Stay, fixed-term tenancies and council home sell-offs under Cameron — but warns that Labour’s faith in private developers will require renewed resistance


