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Prime Minister Keir Starmer and US President Donald Trump shake hands at a joint press conference in the East Room at the White House, February 27, 2025
Trump's Tariffs / 8 May 2025
8 May 2025
Prime Minister Keir Starmer departs 10 Downing Street, London, to attend Prime Minister's Questions at the Houses of Parliament, May 7, 2025
Austerity / 7 May 2025
7 May 2025
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, Scottish Labour Leader Anas Sarwar during an event in Edinburgh to welcome new Labour MPs in Scotland, following Labour's victory in the 2024 General Election, July 7, 2024
Austerity / 2 May 2025
2 May 2025

RUBY ALDEN GIBSON believes Scottish parliament has enough powers to curtail Westminster Labour’s savage attack on welfare

Features / 5 April 2025
5 April 2025
DIANE ABBOTT MP points out the false premises used by Rachel Reeves in the Spring Statement
A retiree rallies calling for higher pensions and against au
Features / 1 April 2025
1 April 2025
After brutal police crackdowns on pensioners and the forced approval of secret IMF deals, trade unions are finally responding to grassroots pressure and fighting back against savage neoliberal reforms, reports BERT SCHOUWENBURG
Protesters show placards as Chancellor Rachel Reeves is abou
Features / 29 March 2025
29 March 2025
While slashing welfare and public services, Labour’s spring statement delivers a bonanza for death-dealing bomb merchants. We now see the true and terrible face of austerity 2.0, writes MICHAEL BURKE
Protesters on Whitehall in London, as Chancellor of the Exch
Britain / 28 March 2025
28 March 2025
Government must take action, union warns: ‘We can’t go on with billionaires getting ever richer whilst working people suffer’
Protesters march towards Parliament Square, London, as Chanc
Editorial: / 26 March 2025
26 March 2025
Protesters demonstrate as Chancellor Rachel Reeves is about
Britain / 26 March 2025
26 March 2025
Labour accused of ‘balancing the books off the backs of the poor’ in spring spending statement
Protesters outside the Treasury this evening
Britain / 25 March 2025
25 March 2025
Chancellor Reeves' planned public spending cuts will ‘open the door’ for Reform UK, McDonnell warns as campaigners get set to rally outside the Treasury
A far-right protest in Belfast city centre an anti-racism â€
Britain / 24 March 2025
24 March 2025
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer during a reception to celebr
Editorial: / 20 March 2025
20 March 2025
Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall arrives in Downing S
Britain / 17 March 2025
17 March 2025
Disabled people and MPs mobilising against government's ‘appalling’ welfare cuts
Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Deputy Prime Minister Angela Ra
Britain / 12 March 2025
12 March 2025
Tax rich instead of cutting benefits, PM told
Keir Starmer (front centre) hosts European leaders' summit t
Features / 8 March 2025
8 March 2025
As European leaders compete to increase military spending while threatening welfare cuts, the burden will fall disproportionately on working people and minority communities, warns DIANE ABBOTT MP
Members of Unite, Unison, GMB, and the EIS trade unions stag
Voices of Scotland / 25 February 2025
25 February 2025
As we face savage cuts to our pay and conditions while the executive gravy train chugs on, Unite is putting the Scottish government on notice as workers prepare for a massive wave of resistance, writes DEREK THOMSON