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THE GOVERNMENT is set to blow taxpayers’ cash on a costly legal challenge to Wednesday’s landmark court ruling that the bedroom tax is discriminatory and illegal.
Court of Appeal judges found that the notorious policy “discriminated” against a domestic violence survivor and the family of a severely disabled teenager.
Labour raised an urgent question in Parliament yesterday morning to push for other social housing tenants with similar cases to be exempted immediately.
The new Employment Rights Act is a step forward, but restoring collective bargaining and union power remains essential to tackling insecurity, outsourcing and low pay, says PAUL WHITEHOUSE
After one year of a Labour government attacking winter fuel allowance and disabled people, the trade union movement must step up regardless of who holds power, writes STEVE GILLAN