The Carpathia isn’t coming to rescue this government still swimming in the mire, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
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Help to buy scheme turns out to mean ‘help the rich’
As the RMT Health and Safety Conference takes place, the union is calling for urgent action on crisis of work-related stress, understaffing and the growing threat of workplace assaults. RMT leader EDDIE DEMPSEY explains
Current polling shows Scottish Labour faces a stark choice: break decisively with Westminster or continue its slide into irrelevance, warns VINCE MILLS
As discussions continue between the US and Iran over the Islamic Republic’s nuclear enrichment programme, the suppression of internal dissent by the theocratic dictatorship grows. STEVE BISHOP reports.
Last weekend’s inaugural conference mixed warmth, unity and ambition with the unmistakable echo of old arguments. MATT KERR wonders whether the fledgling party’s difficulties can be overcome
The US president’s career is defined by a consistent use of racist tropes and provocation. Why are world leaders so silent over his repeated vitriolic prejudice, asks ROGER McKENZIE
THE National Audit Office (NAO) inspection of the Conservatives’ help to buy scheme this month found more than half of people using the government’s loan scheme could have bought a house without state support.
Help to buy, launched by then Tory chancellor George Osborne in 2013, offers buyers zero-interest loans worth up to 20 per cent of the cost of new-build houses.
The NAO report means that the government’s most expensive scheme to increase house supply, with over 200,000 loans worth £11.7 billion, is not helping those most in need.
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