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Children enjoying playing on swings
Britain / 27 March 2025
27 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
Prime Minister Keir Starmer during a business meeting with t
Britain / 29 January 2025
29 January 2025
Meanwhile, the Prime Minister walks in the direction of the biggest bosses
A stack of British one pound coins
Britain / 27 January 2025
27 January 2025
RAPID RENEWAL: Changsha’s statue of Mao, the city at night
Features / 3 December 2024
3 December 2024
Hunan province’s transformation shows how state investment can lift millions from deprivation — but Western states avoid discussion of this while ramping up military spending instead, writes FIONA EDWARDS
Homeless people sleeping rough
Britain / 25 November 2024
25 November 2024
Stocks of food, as one in three young people say their famil
World / 20 November 2024
20 November 2024
The Trussell Trust calls on NI executive to act on hunger after 35,000 emergency food parcels were distributed across the six counties
A stack of British one pound coins
Britain / 12 November 2024
12 November 2024
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer meets with representatives o
Editorial: / 5 November 2024
5 November 2024
Finance Secretary Shona Robison at the Scottish Parliament,
Britain / 31 October 2024
31 October 2024
A child playing, February 8, 2012
Britain / 20 October 2024
20 October 2024
stocks of food at a foodbank
Britain / 9 October 2024
9 October 2024
Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson
Labour Conference 2024 / 25 September 2024
25 September 2024
A stack of British one pound coins
Britain / 23 September 2024
23 September 2024
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, left, and British Pri
Labour Conference 2024 / 21 September 2024
21 September 2024
The government mantra that ‘things will only get worse’ is almost designed to fuel the far right – and grim warnings from Europe suggest Britain’s future direction of travel too, says DIANE ABBOTT MP
A general view of the Sizewell nuclear power plant in Suffol
Features / 6 September 2024
6 September 2024
LINDA PENTZ GUNTER condemns Starmer’s willingness to let children go hungry and the elderly shiver while pouring billions into doomed nuclear projects that won’t address the climate crisis
Children enjoying playing on swings in a park near Ashford,
Britain / 22 July 2024
22 July 2024
Unacceptable for one of world’s wealthiest nations to fuel child poverty, campaigners charge
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Durham Miners' Gala / 13 July 2024
13 July 2024
As she returns to Westminster, REBECCA LONG BAILEY MP calls on the new government to scrap the two-child benefit cap immediately to ease families’ financial strain that she sees in Salford