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My mum died after an 11-hour ambulance wait – the system is failing patients and health workers
An NHS ambulance
Mathew Hulbert

My mum died after an 11-hour ambulance wait – the system is failing patients and health workers

It’s now three years since Just Treatment’s Mathew Hulbert lost his mother following a fall at her home. Since then, Labour have come into power with big promises to fix the NHS but are yet to deliver the improvements Britain desperately needs, he writes
Don't justify spending cuts with 'overinflated' promises on AI, Labour told: 'AI isn't perfect'
Prime Minister Keir Starmer visits University College London East as part of the AI Opportunities Action Plan.
Artificial Intelligence

Don't justify spending cuts with 'overinflated' promises on AI, Labour told: 'AI isn't perfect'

Revealed: 1.3 million people with cancer, arthritis and more could lose PIP under Labour's benefit cuts
Disability benefits

Revealed: 1.3 million people with cancer, arthritis and more could lose PIP under Labour's benefit cuts

'Time for radical thinking': What's the bigger picture behind Reeves' dramatic benefit cuts?
Spring statement

'Time for radical thinking': What's the bigger picture behind Reeves' dramatic benefit cuts?

Could Rachel Reeves have introduced a wealth tax instead of benefit cuts? Economists say yes
Wealth tax

Could Rachel Reeves have introduced a wealth tax instead of benefit cuts? Economists say yes

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Five years after Covid, why has working from home become a culture war fault line?
Five years on from the pandemic

Five years after Covid, why has working from home become a culture war fault line?

Communities that build solar panels and wind farms should get cheaper bills, says Labour minister
Energy minister Michael Shanks
Community energy

Communities that build solar panels and wind farms should get cheaper bills, says Labour minister

Rachel Reeves doubles down on welfare cuts in Spring Statement: 'This is change for the worse'
Rachel Reeves
Spring Statement

Rachel Reeves doubles down on welfare cuts in Spring Statement: 'This is change for the worse'

Labour pledge £2bn for social housing ahead of Spring Statement: ‘We are fixing the housing crisis’
Deputy prime minister and housing secretary Angela Rayner and chancellor Rachel Reeves
Spring Statement

Labour pledge £2bn for social housing ahead of Spring Statement: ‘We are fixing the housing crisis’

Cuts, taxes and Labour dissent: What to expect from the chancellor's Spring Statement
Chancellor Rachel Reeves
Spring Statement

Cuts, taxes and Labour dissent: What to expect from the chancellor's Spring Statement

We all clapped for the NHS during the Covid pandemic. Did it actually do... anything?
Healthcare workers march through London during the pandemic. Image: Unsplash
Five years since the pandemic

We all clapped for the NHS during the Covid pandemic. Did it actually do... anything?

Labour's benefits cuts are short-sighted, whatever way you look at it
keir starmer
Paul McNamee

Labour's benefits cuts are short-sighted, whatever way you look at it

The hidden impact of Labour's disability benefit cuts – from carer's allowance to railcards
keir starmer labour leader
Benefits

The hidden impact of Labour's disability benefit cuts – from carer's allowance to railcards

I'm a disabled person claiming benefits – and I've lost all hope in the Labour government
Labour prime minister Keir Starmer
Arjan

I'm a disabled person claiming benefits – and I've lost all hope in the Labour government

End two-child limit on benefits to lift 600,000 kids out of poverty, Labour told: 'We're in a crisis'
Image of child eating/ child poverty uk
Child poverty

End two-child limit on benefits to lift 600,000 kids out of poverty, Labour told: 'We're in a crisis'

DWP's new unemployment benefit and changes to work capability assessments, explained
Benefits

DWP's new unemployment benefit and changes to work capability assessments, explained

How Labour's changes to universal credit are going to impact millions of Brits
work and pensions secretary liz kendall announces her plan to 'get britain working'
Universal Credit

How Labour's changes to universal credit are going to impact millions of Brits

The government has a choice: Slash benefits and destroy lives or support disabled people
Keir Starmer
James Watson-O’Neill

The government has a choice: Slash benefits and destroy lives or support disabled people

Cuts to benefits would be a 'grave mistake', Keir Starmer warned by his own MPs
keir starmer
Benefits

Cuts to benefits would be a 'grave mistake', Keir Starmer warned by his own MPs

Labour promises 'biggest building boom in a generation' in reform of UK's planning system
Labour deputy prime minister Angela Rayner in construction gear
Planning

Labour promises 'biggest building boom in a generation' in reform of UK's planning system

This small change to sick pay would make a huge difference for people with mental health problems
person with book on head and papers scattered around
Minesh Patel

This small change to sick pay would make a huge difference for people with mental health problems

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
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

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

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?

Germany's extreme right profited from economic decline. Keir Starmer should take note
Jakob Hafele

Germany's extreme right profited from economic decline. Keir Starmer should take note

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