Editorial: Covid court case can shed light on Britain's broken politics

BEREAVED families taking the government to court, for discharging untested NHS patients into care homes en masse in the early days of the Covid pan

Labour urged to back local services as town hall deficits top £5bn

Kirklees District Council to shed 750 jobs to balance budget

A YORKSHIRE council is set to shed 750 jobs, saying that it needs to balance its budget after years of Tory cuts.

Councils face £3bn funding gap just to maintain existing levels of services, local authority chiefs warn

COUNCILS across England and Wales are £3 billion short of just being able to maintain existing levels of austerity-hit services, local authority bo

Thousands of kids attending schools that require major repairs following years of government underfunding, report finds

HUNDREDS of thousands of children across England are attending schools that require major repairs following years of government underfunding, a dam

Editorial: Austerity paved the way to pandemic disaster – yet both Tories and Labour want more of it

FURY at Tories caught joking about breaking the rules during the 2020 Covid lockdown is entirely justified.

Austerity architects Cameron and Osborne left Britain ‘hugely exposed to the pandemic’

‘Their policies weakened the foundations of our society by hollowing out our public services and shredding our safety net,’ TUC says

Students ‘failed by Tory lies’ as budgets slashed

BRITAIN’S young people are being failed by Tory lies designed to protect private profit and billionaires while school budgets are decimated, teache

Years of weak public investment has undermined economic growth, Resolution Foundation says

YEARS of weak public investment represent an “institutional failure of the British state” which has undermined economic growth and key services, a

Workers £11,000 worse off per year due to 15 years of wage stagnation