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Part of a LabourList series on International Women's Day 2018. On International Women’s Day, it is right that we celebrate the contribution of women in our society, and step up our fight for equality. But while we will hear warm words from…
It has never been clearer that Tory austerity policies are having an adverse effect on disabled people in our society. This week the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) has held a session in Geneva to…
There had been much made of the new chancellor’s supposed break from the austerity politics of his predecessor in the run up to this Autumn Statement. On Wednesday Hammond dashed any hope of a change of direction. This government has wasted…
The month after the most important election in our lifetime, whether to remain or leave the European Union, we are only just starting to unpick what the referendum result means for the UK, for its different regions, areas and nation states…
Earlier this year, during one of my regular door knocks, I called at a house and the door was opened by an elderly woman in her late 70s. She was dishevelled, distressed and clearly confused. She had an empty bubble wrap pack of medication…
Earlier this year, during one of my regular door knocks, I called at a house and the door was opened by an elderly woman in her late 70s. She was dishevelled, distressed and clearly confused. She had an empty bubble wrap pack of medication…
As a member of the Work and Pensions Select Committee I get to see up close the Government’s dissolute, ideological approach to social security - whether it’s Iain Duncan Smith’s comments that he wants to limit child benefit to the first…
