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Sadiq Khan: 'Keir Starmer didn't get into politics to take things from people who need them'
Winter Fuel Payment

Sadiq Khan: 'Keir Starmer didn't get into politics to take things from people who need them'

Renters' Rights Bill: Labour has 'once-in-a-generation opportunity' to fix the renting crisis
Labour housing secretary Angela Rayner and housing minister Matther Pennycook
Renting

Renters' Rights Bill: Labour has 'once-in-a-generation opportunity' to fix the renting crisis

Starmer defends 'unpopular' winter fuel payment cut amid pressure from unions and Labour rebels
Winter fuel payment

Starmer defends 'unpopular' winter fuel payment cut amid pressure from unions and Labour rebels

Asylum seeker still waiting for decision from Home Office after 16 years in limbo: 'It's degrading'
Counter-protesters react to a far-right protest outside an asylum seeker hotel
Immigration

Asylum seeker still waiting for decision from Home Office after 16 years in limbo: 'It's degrading'

Four things Labour's new taskforce must do immediately to end homelessness
Labour deputy leader Angela Rayner speaking to a man at a homelessness charity in Wales
Rick Henderson

Four things Labour's new taskforce must do immediately to end homelessness

Labour MP Rupa Huq looks back (not in anger) on interviewing Noel Gallagher for Big Issue in 1999
Rupa Huq

Labour MP Rupa Huq looks back (not in anger) on interviewing Noel Gallagher for Big Issue in 1999

Death of six children and pregnant woman in migrant boat tragedy shows need for asylum safe routes
Habib from Afghanistan explained that people are only crossing the Channel in small boats because they're desperate
Small boats

Death of six children and pregnant woman in migrant boat tragedy shows need for asylum safe routes

Suspend Right to Buy to help tackle social housing crisis, government told: 'It's exploitative'
social housing in England
Right to Buy

Suspend Right to Buy to help tackle social housing crisis, government told: 'It's exploitative'

Oasis tickets row highlights how music fans are 'taken advantage of' amid a cost of living crisis
Music

Oasis tickets row highlights how music fans are 'taken advantage of' amid a cost of living crisis

Labour MP and self-professed 'renters champion' Jas Athwal faces calls to resign over mouldy flats
Labour MP Jas Athwal speaking in the House of Commons
Renting

Labour MP and self-professed 'renters champion' Jas Athwal faces calls to resign over mouldy flats

DWP extends household support fund to help families struggling with cost of living
MPs told the Government to keep the £20 Universal Credit increase
Household support fund

DWP extends household support fund to help families struggling with cost of living

These are the ticking Tory time bombs Labour must defuse as parliament returns
Politics

These are the ticking Tory time bombs Labour must defuse as parliament returns

Labour reveals plan to build 300,000 homes stuck in planning limbo: 'We have a moral obligation'
Labour housing secretary Angela Rayner
Housing

Labour reveals plan to build 300,000 homes stuck in planning limbo: 'We have a moral obligation'

UK's tax system lets the wealthy off the hook, report finds – and traps Northerners in inequality
Taxes

UK's tax system lets the wealthy off the hook, report finds – and traps Northerners in inequality

Labour urged against return to austerity as Keir Starmer warns of 'painful' autumn budget
Autumn budget

Labour urged against return to austerity as Keir Starmer warns of 'painful' autumn budget

Letters: I panic every time I hear from the DWP. It tells you all you need to know about the system
Letters

Letters: I panic every time I hear from the DWP. It tells you all you need to know about the system

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Care homes at risk of closure as new visa rules drive staffing crisis: 'The sector can't function'
social care crisis sees care workers experiencing low pay
Social care crisis

Care homes at risk of closure as new visa rules drive staffing crisis: 'The sector can't function'

Rise in prison leaver homelessness should be a clear warning to the new government
Barbed wire on a wall at a prison
Campbell Robb

Rise in prison leaver homelessness should be a clear warning to the new government

Labour accused of 'aligning with landlords' and 'heaping misery on families' over social rent hike
Labour Chancellor Rachel Reeves
Social housing

Labour accused of 'aligning with landlords' and 'heaping misery on families' over social rent hike

Angela Rayner to lead Labour taskforce to tackle homelessness: 'This will get us back on track'
Angela Rayner visits Social Bite homeless village in Edinburgh
Homelessness

Angela Rayner to lead Labour taskforce to tackle homelessness: 'This will get us back on track'

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