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Meet the rebel Labour MPs voting against disability benefit cuts: 'I don't want to be part of it'
Labour MPs join photo-call to protest against disability benefit cuts.
Disability benefits

Meet the rebel Labour MPs voting against disability benefit cuts: 'I don't want to be part of it'

The Big Issue spoke to Labour MPs who attended a photo-call to publicly oppose the government's plans for disability benefit cuts
Labour could build 500,000 social homes 'at a stretch' with £39bn affordable housing pledge
Labour's Angela Rayner and Rachel Reeves
Social housing

Labour could build 500,000 social homes 'at a stretch' with £39bn affordable housing pledge

Labour told to set out how many social homes it will build with £39bn spending review pledge
Aerial shot of social housing
Social housing

Labour told to set out how many social homes it will build with £39bn spending review pledge

70,000 more people to lose disability benefits under Labour's cuts than originally expected
Disability benefits

70,000 more people to lose disability benefits under Labour's cuts than originally expected

Put drug overdose kits in pubs, train stations and shopping centres to save homeless peoples' lives
Drugs

Put drug overdose kits in pubs, train stations and shopping centres to save homeless peoples' lives

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
How can I help homeless people during a UK heatwave?
uk heatwave
Homelessness

How can I help homeless people during a UK heatwave?

Store cards and buy now, pay later debt landed this single mum in court. What if there was another way?
Stock image of a woman working on a laptop
Buy now, pay later

Store cards and buy now, pay later debt landed this single mum in court. What if there was another way?

Disability benefit cuts will harm hundreds of thousands, MPs warn: 'A disaster on every front'
DWP benefits protest
Disability benefit cuts

Disability benefit cuts will harm hundreds of thousands, MPs warn: 'A disaster on every front'

What really happens in China's so-called 're-education' camps: 'There was suffering and violence'
China

What really happens in China's so-called 're-education' camps: 'There was suffering and violence'

Council tries to evict food bank – despite referring 95% of its users: 'There is nowhere to go'
Food banks

Council tries to evict food bank – despite referring 95% of its users: 'There is nowhere to go'

The Middle East has been betrayed – but despite everything, there is always hope
The Middle East

The Middle East has been betrayed – but despite everything, there is always hope

This women's library just became a 'library of sanctuary' for refugees and asylum seekers
Glasgow Women's Library in Scotland
Libraries

This women's library just became a 'library of sanctuary' for refugees and asylum seekers

Scrap two-child benefit cap if you're serious about child poverty, Rachel Reeves told
Rachel Reeves
Two-child benefit cap

Scrap two-child benefit cap if you're serious about child poverty, Rachel Reeves told

Should taxpayers pay for solar panels to be installed on homes?
solar panels on the roof of a block of flats
Green energy

Should taxpayers pay for solar panels to be installed on homes?

Labour's apprenticeship reforms aim to train the next generation – but do they go far enough?
Apprenticeships

Labour's apprenticeship reforms aim to train the next generation – but do they go far enough?

Good news for renters – the rental boom is finally over, says Zoopla
a renter holding a set of keys on the stairs of a home
RENTING

Good news for renters – the rental boom is finally over, says Zoopla

Auto-enrol eligible children for free school meals to end 'postcode lottery', government told
Stock image of children eating a school meal
Free school meals

Auto-enrol eligible children for free school meals to end 'postcode lottery', government told

Labour pledge to end use of asylum hotels 'good for refugees, the taxpayer and communities'
Chancellor Rachel Reeves leaves No 11 Downing Street, to deliver her Spending Review
Immigration

Labour pledge to end use of asylum hotels 'good for refugees, the taxpayer and communities'

Labour reveals £1bn plan to replace household support fund for poorest families
image of cash
Household support fund

Labour reveals £1bn plan to replace household support fund for poorest families

What was in Rachel Reeves' historic spending review – and what was missing?
Rachel Reeves
Spending review

What was in Rachel Reeves' historic spending review – and what was missing?

Rachel Reeves announces 'biggest cash injection into social housing in 50 years'
Darren Jones and Rachel Reeves prepare for the spending review
Spending review

Rachel Reeves announces 'biggest cash injection into social housing in 50 years'

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Meet the lawyers stepping in to help homeless people rebuild: 'People don't know their rights'
Law

Meet the lawyers stepping in to help homeless people rebuild: 'People don't know their rights'

PIP literally saved my life. Now I fear Labour's benefit cuts will take it all away
Disability benefits

PIP literally saved my life. Now I fear Labour's benefit cuts will take it all away

Rough sleeping to finally be decriminalised with scrapping of 'cruel' 200-year law
Vagrancy Act continues to punish rough sleepers
Rough sleeping

Rough sleeping to finally be decriminalised with scrapping of 'cruel' 200-year law

This adorable robot is helping us learn more about children, autism and the way humans connect
Autism

This adorable robot is helping us learn more about children, autism and the way humans connect

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