Lottie Elton
Lottie Elton is a staff reporter at the Big Issue. She previously worked at Euronews, and as a health and state politics reporter at The West Australian Newspaper. In this role, she won “Best New Journalist - Runner Up” in 2021.
Rishi Sunak is overseeing biggest tax rises since Second World War, IFS think tank finds
Tax rises

Rishi Sunak is overseeing biggest tax rises since Second World War, IFS think tank finds

Power Up London: Big Issue Invest opens applications for new investment programme
Big Issue Invest

Power Up London: Big Issue Invest opens applications for new investment programme

Suella Braverman sinks to new low saying asylum seekers pretend to be gay for 'special treatment'
Asylum seekers

Suella Braverman sinks to new low saying asylum seekers pretend to be gay for 'special treatment'

Labour's Keir Starmer should take inspiration from Joe Biden on strikes and picket lines
Strikes

Labour's Keir Starmer should take inspiration from Joe Biden on strikes and picket lines

'Profoundly worrying': Could Tories drop much-needed Renters Reform Bill like its net zero promises?
Protesters hold a banner which reads
Renters Reform Bill

'Profoundly worrying': Could Tories drop much-needed Renters Reform Bill like its net zero promises?

University strike disrupts freshers' week as staff slam 'very worst employers'
Strikes

University strike disrupts freshers' week as staff slam 'very worst employers'

Tories will fail to end rough sleeping by 2024, experts warn, breaking manifesto pledge
homelessness
Homelessness

Tories will fail to end rough sleeping by 2024, experts warn, breaking manifesto pledge

Britain becoming more liberal-minded – but less tolerant of trans people, survey finds
Transgender rights

Britain becoming more liberal-minded – but less tolerant of trans people, survey finds

'He begged mummy to take him home': Autistic man 'abused' while being kept in mental hospital for six years
Mental Health Act

'He begged mummy to take him home': Autistic man 'abused' while being kept in mental hospital for six years

Shoppers are being forced to show receipts before leaving the store amid cost of living crisis
Shopping

Shoppers are being forced to show receipts before leaving the store amid cost of living crisis

'Reckless', 'inept', 'expensive': Rishi Sunak's net zero U-turn unleashes avalanche of criticism
Net Zero

'Reckless', 'inept', 'expensive': Rishi Sunak's net zero U-turn unleashes avalanche of criticism

Cost of living crisis sparks troubling rise in malnutrition and return of 'Victorian' diseases
A doctor listening to a child's back through a stethoscope. Poverty
Cost of living crisis

Cost of living crisis sparks troubling rise in malnutrition and return of 'Victorian' diseases

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