Labour

What lessons do Sadiq Khan's free school meals have for Labour as two-child benefit cap ends?
Sadiq Khan serves dinner
Child poverty

What lessons do Sadiq Khan's free school meals have for Labour as two-child benefit cap ends?

Controversy over policies feeding children has bubbled up again. As Rachel Reeves lifts the two-child benefit cap, can 100 million free school meals in London help make the case?
Homelessness stagnated in Labour's first year – but ministers warned not to mistake it for progress
a homeless man pictured in his temporary accommodation
Homelessness

Homelessness stagnated in Labour's first year – but ministers warned not to mistake it for progress

The government's new immigration 'shake up' will only punish torture survivors like me
Kolbassia Haoussou

The government's new immigration 'shake up' will only punish torture survivors like me

Keir Starmer writes for Big Issue: 'It's about time we rebalanced the system to give renters more power'
Keir Starmer

Keir Starmer writes for Big Issue: 'It's about time we rebalanced the system to give renters more power'

Shabana Mahmood's asylum crackdown is enough to make Scrooge blush – but it's not too late to change
Ravishaan Rahel Muthiah

Shabana Mahmood's asylum crackdown is enough to make Scrooge blush – but it's not too late to change

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Could a wealth tax convince young people to vote Labour?
Your views

Could a wealth tax convince young people to vote Labour?

Keir Starmer promises to 'put an end to unsafe housing' in exclusive article for Big Issue
Prime minister Keir Starmer.
Housing

Keir Starmer promises to 'put an end to unsafe housing' in exclusive article for Big Issue

'Don't be a robot – and go left': What can Labour learn from Zohran Mamdani's victory in New York?
Politics

'Don't be a robot – and go left': What can Labour learn from Zohran Mamdani's victory in New York?

Westminster must set ambitious, measurable targets to reduce child poverty
set child poverty targets
Child poverty

Westminster must set ambitious, measurable targets to reduce child poverty

Young people call on Rachel Reeves to bring in wealth tax: 'Our generation is losing hope'
Wealth Tax

Young people call on Rachel Reeves to bring in wealth tax: 'Our generation is losing hope'

Digital ID scheme will be a 'passport' out of homelessness, insists Keir Starmer
Exclusive

Digital ID scheme will be a 'passport' out of homelessness, insists Keir Starmer

Everything you need to know about Labour's child poverty strategy
Save the Children projected stark child poverty statistics onto the Houses of Parliament
Child poverty

Everything you need to know about Labour's child poverty strategy

Cold homes are costing lives. Labour's warm homes plan must deliver on its promise
winter heating payment
Andria Mastroianni and Matt Copeland

Cold homes are costing lives. Labour's warm homes plan must deliver on its promise

Disability and poor health drives number of young people not in work or education to almost a million
a young person sat on a bench
NEETs

Disability and poor health drives number of young people not in work or education to almost a million

Labour deputy hopeful Lucy Powell on benefit cuts, landlords and Farage: 'There's no quick fix'
Lucy Powell in House of Commons
Politics

Labour deputy hopeful Lucy Powell on benefit cuts, landlords and Farage: 'There's no quick fix'

Mounjaro for all! Will Wes Streeting's plan for weight loss jabs on the NHS really work?
Paul McNamee

Mounjaro for all! Will Wes Streeting's plan for weight loss jabs on the NHS really work?

Disabled man may be forced to close his business after DWP slashed his Access to Work support
Access to work

Disabled man may be forced to close his business after DWP slashed his Access to Work support

The DWP is implicated in the deaths of hundreds of disabled people. Here's how to overhaul it
New work and pensions secretary Pat McFadden in the House of Commons
Benefits

The DWP is implicated in the deaths of hundreds of disabled people. Here's how to overhaul it

Why we need a new commission on the future of multicultural Britain
image of union jacks
Kieran Connell

Why we need a new commission on the future of multicultural Britain

Labour wants to ban fracking – while Reform wants to 'drill baby drill'. What does it mean for you?
fracking

Labour wants to ban fracking – while Reform wants to 'drill baby drill'. What does it mean for you?

Labour faces another mass rebellion over reforms to the universal credit system, MPs fear
Keir Starmer
Benefits

Labour faces another mass rebellion over reforms to the universal credit system, MPs fear

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Labour can't out-Reform Reform – it needs to change tack
Nigel Farage
Stephen Walcott

Labour can't out-Reform Reform – it needs to change tack

Labour could replace two-child limit with a tapered system. Is it enough to tackle child poverty?
Prime minister Keir Starmer speaking at the Labour conference.
Child poverty

Labour could replace two-child limit with a tapered system. Is it enough to tackle child poverty?

Nationalisation, buses and homes for rough sleepers: This is what Andy Burnham's Britain would look like
Andy Burnham with Big Issue vendor Colin
Politics

Nationalisation, buses and homes for rough sleepers: This is what Andy Burnham's Britain would look like

I'm a single dad asking Keir Starmer and his government to do more to tackle child poverty
Left: Jonny Roberts. Right: Keir Starmer speaking with school children.
Jonny Roberts

I'm a single dad asking Keir Starmer and his government to do more to tackle child poverty