Poverty Unite launches legal challenge to overturn winter fuel payment cut

UNITE has launched judicial review proceedings seeking to overturn government cuts to the winter fuel allowance for millions of pensioners.

Care leavers should be exempt from council tax until they are 25, councils say

GOVERNMENT should pay for care leavers’ council tax, prescriptions, NHS dental treatment and optician costs until they are 25, the Local Government

National Insurance tax hikes could force GP practices to close, doctors warn

‘Historic injustice’ overturned as government hands over £1.5bn to 112,000 ex-miners' pensions

MORE than 100,000 former mineworkers will receive £1.5 billion of money kept from their pensions following the privatisation of British Coal in 199

Rough sleeping hits record high in London after rising by nearly a fifth in a year

BRITAIN’S homelessness shame deepened today after the number of known rough sleepers in London rose by almost a fifth in a year.

Budget must herald ‘new approach’ to Tories' worst pay stagnation in 100 years, TUC says

BRITAIN needs an “investment Budget” said the TUC today after official figures confirmed the Tories oversaw the worst pay growth for any period in

Starmer slammed for hitting poorest with Budget bus fare hike

PRIME Minister Sir Keir Starmer was slammed for hitting the poorest today after announcing the bus fare cap will rise from £2 to £3.

‘Serious investment’ in education needed after report finds Tories lost focus on disadvantage

THE government has been urged to put forward “serious investment” in education in tomorrow’s Budget after the publication of a damning report on t

Sir Keir says altercation footage ‘shocking’ as Mike Amesbury MP suspended

SIR KEIR STARMER defended Labour’s decision to suspend Mike Amesbury today, describing video footage of the MP apparently punching a man to the gro

Majority back pay rises for nurses, survey finds as RCN warns education model is ‘broken’

MINISTERS were urged to “fix a broken nurse-education model” today after a survey found most people think nurses and careworkers are paid too littl