O’Grady: Workers facing “longest and harshest” wage slump in modern history
Frances O’Grady has warned that workers are suffering the “longest and harshest squeeze” on wages in modern history…
Inflation
PMQs: Starmer makes a bid to appeal to voters with pop culture references
In a week where the government published the potentially illegal Northern Ireland protocol bill and faced the embarrassment…
Warning of 1970s-style “wage-price spiral” from PM “nonsense”, TUC says
TUC deputy general secretary Paul Nowak has described as “nonsense” a claim made by Boris Johnson that workers…
Labour looks for a new line of attack after Sunak’s windfall tax U-turn
More than half of UK households have been forced to make adjustments in response to the rising cost…
Rishi Sunak is urged to spring into action in the face of out-of-control inflation
Rishi Sunak will unveil his Spring Statement later today, promising “security” to families in the face of the cost-of-living crisis. The Chancellor…
Labour accuses Tories of “hammering” business as 3 in 4 firms raise prices
Labour’s Jonathan Reynolds has warned that the “Conservatives’ cost of living crisis is hammering businesses, shops and factories”…
Changes to how we measure inflation could support calls for a right to food
Inflation is at a near 30-year high. According to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), inflation hit 5.4%…
Labour demands action from Holyrood and Westminster on cost-of-living crisis
Keir Starmer and Anas Sarwar have called on the UK and Scottish governments to help people in the…
National Insurance hike will exacerbate inflation and threaten jobs, PM warned
Boris Johnson has been warned that his government’s planned increase in National Insurance contributions, which is set to…
Labour warns families face cost of living crisis this Christmas as inflation rises
Labour has warned of “price crunches” as UK inflation hits a ten-year high and described the latest economic…
