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Disability benefit cuts could plunge 700,000 households into poverty, Labour warned
Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves
Disability benefits

Disability benefit cuts could plunge 700,000 households into poverty, Labour warned

'A jigsaw with pieces missing': Why are new housing estates forcing people to rely on cars?
Housing

'A jigsaw with pieces missing': Why are new housing estates forcing people to rely on cars?

Andy Burnham: 'Right to Buy scheme means homelessness will get worse before it gets better'
Andy Burnham
Homelessness

Andy Burnham: 'Right to Buy scheme means homelessness will get worse before it gets better'

Police pay out £2.5k over wrongful arrest of man who shouted 'who elected him' at King Charles ceremony
King Charles
Protest

Police pay out £2.5k over wrongful arrest of man who shouted 'who elected him' at King Charles ceremony

How Canada's next prime minister Mark Carney came to be inspired by Big Issue
Mark Carney is set to be the new Canadian prime minister
Canada

How Canada's next prime minister Mark Carney came to be inspired by Big Issue

How fixing up forgotten churches can make a divine intervention in the housing crisis
An empty church
Housing crisis

How fixing up forgotten churches can make a divine intervention in the housing crisis

Starmer squandering chance to gain public's trust, says boss of influential progressive think tank
Harry Quilter-Pinner, director of IPPR
Think tanks

Starmer squandering chance to gain public's trust, says boss of influential progressive think tank

Labour wants to 'unleash the North Sea's clean energy future'. What does that mean for oil and gas?
North Sea

Labour wants to 'unleash the North Sea's clean energy future'. What does that mean for oil and gas?

Conflating sex work and sex trafficking is harmful and needs to stop, Labour told
anti violence against women graffiti says 'women deserve better'
Sex work

Conflating sex work and sex trafficking is harmful and needs to stop, Labour told

Millions of universal credit and disability benefit claimants turn to food banks: 'I'm terrified of cuts'
food banks
Food banks

Millions of universal credit and disability benefit claimants turn to food banks: 'I'm terrified of cuts'

Landlords of overcrowded flat fined £12k after fire killed dad-of-two
The damage following a deadly fire at Maddocks House in Shadwell
Shadwell fire

Landlords of overcrowded flat fined £12k after fire killed dad-of-two

DWP reveals new plans to get sick and disabled people into work ahead of benefit cuts
DWP minister Liz Kendall
Department for Work and Pensions

DWP reveals new plans to get sick and disabled people into work ahead of benefit cuts

UK has some of the 'weakest' workers' rights in the Western world. Can Labour fix this?
Workers' rights

UK has some of the 'weakest' workers' rights in the Western world. Can Labour fix this?

Slashing billions from welfare will not help people into work or save money, Rachel Reeves warned
chancellor rachel reeves
Department for Work and Pensions

Slashing billions from welfare will not help people into work or save money, Rachel Reeves warned

Japanese atomic bomb survivor Jiro Hamasumi: 'Nuclear weapons must not coexist with humanity'
Nuclear disarmament

Japanese atomic bomb survivor Jiro Hamasumi: 'Nuclear weapons must not coexist with humanity'

After turning down a Bitcoin booty, one city council's cuts tell the story of broke Britain
the view from newport's transporter bridge
Public services

After turning down a Bitcoin booty, one city council's cuts tell the story of broke Britain

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Vast majority of Brits feel powerless over local decisions – and it's eroding trust in politics
A man in an orange jacket stands with his arm out while three people look in the background
Communities

Vast majority of Brits feel powerless over local decisions – and it's eroding trust in politics

UN calls on Labour to increase benefits and scrap two-child limit in UK poverty crisis warning
Prime minister Keir Starmer
Human rights

UN calls on Labour to increase benefits and scrap two-child limit in UK poverty crisis warning

This innovative scheme uses spare rooms to house homeless refugees after Home Office backlog blitz
Housing Justice refugee lodgings programme
Refugee homelessness

This innovative scheme uses spare rooms to house homeless refugees after Home Office backlog blitz

Will Labour's 'radical' leasehold reforms lead to a 'two-tier' system for flat owners?
Cladding protest in Westminster
Leasehold reform

Will Labour's 'radical' leasehold reforms lead to a 'two-tier' system for flat owners?

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