Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate
Nov 5, 2024 · Girls aged four to six in the North East can expect to live in good health for only 59.7 years, the lowest healthy life expectancy in England, and six years less than those in the South East. Orbán’s authoritarian playbook, which Trump and his fellow MAGA Republicans seem to idolise, shows just ...
March for Climate Justice: Activists rally against fossil fuels and war ...
2 days ago · In what is the first major climate justice mobilisation under the new Labour government, activists from more than 60 organisations are gathering in London today – November 16 – to demand the government ends reliance on fossil fuels, pays up for climate finance, and ends its “complicity in Israel’s escalating genocidal violence.”
Assisted Dying Bill: How Labour cabinet members intend to vote
3 days ago · Labour backbencher Kim Leadbeater has proposed a new Bill to parliament seeking to legalise assisted dying. The proposed legislation would allow adults who are terminally ill with less than six months to live take their own life at the time of their choosing.
Over 60,000 people sign petition calling for Rachel Reeves to keep …
Oct 28, 2024 · More than 60,000 people have signed a petition calling for the £2 cap on bus fares in England to be maintained. The petition comes after rumours that the chancellor Rachel Reeves would not extend the cap on Wednesday in her first budget since Labour entered government.
Why we need to urgently reform the House of Lords
2 days ago · The House of Lords, the UK’s second parliamentary chamber, is primarily a revising chamber and urges the government of the day to rethink some aspects of its proposed legislation. However, it is unelected and unrepresentative of the population and needs to be reformed. There are two issues facing ...
A thousand workers participate in four-day working week trial …
Nov 9, 2024 · A thousand employees in Britain are getting extra time off without a reduction in pay in part of the Four-Day Week Campaign. The trial launched on November 4 and will run until April. It follows a successful similar trial in 2022, which, after reports of …
The ‘Budapest playbook’: A blueprint we can’t afford to follow
1 day ago · Orbán’s authoritarian playbook, which Trump and his fellow MAGA Republicans seem to idolise, shows just how vulnerable democratic institutions are in the face of rising populism, and how quickly democratic models can be eroded. The need for a robust defence of democratic values has never been more critical.
New research shows that public think urgent action on climate …
5 days ago · New polling has revealed that the British public think that urgent, immediate action is needed to address the climate crisis.. YouGov has polled the public on attitudes to the climate crisis as the COP29 climate negotiations are taking place in Azerbaijan. The polling firm asked whether it is too late to avoid the worst effects of climate change.
The key things to watch out for in the 76 days following the US ...
Nov 5, 2024 · Starting points. We must move away from focusing on election day to focusing on election season.; There is little doubt that we will see a wave of legal challenges. The Trump campaign for some time has been bringing legal challenges to voting processes, including most recently challenging the ability of overseas voters to vote, not because they think they can win, but to seed the ecosystem ...
U.S. election: Why there is still much to do to ensure a Kamala …
Oct 8, 2024 · 270toWin: National polls: Harris 49.5% – Trump 45.7%; Harris +3.8. Cook Political Report’s Swing State Project Survey (Amy Walter and Jessica Taylor) shows Harris leading (AZ +2, MI+3, NV +1, PA +1 and WI +2) or tied (NC) with Trump in all but one (GA -2) of the seven battleground states and with an overall lead of 49%-48% nationally (2 …