Thousands of demonstrators are gathering in Manchester today, Sunday, to protest against Tory austerity. The Tories are beginning their annual conference in the city.
Around 500 victims of the contaminated blood scandal will be able to sue the government for damages, a court ruled last week.
The racist Ukip party is set to announce its new leader today, Friday, as the party’s conference begins in Torquay.
Theresa May is trying to defend capitalism, a system that fails the majority of people on the planet. Speaking today, Thursday, she argued that the free market is the “greatest agent of collective human progress ever created”.
Traffic came to a standstill in central London today, Wednesday, as up to 300 people marched through the city at rush hour.
Jeremy Corbyn has said the Labour Party is a “government in waiting”—and that under his leadership it will replace a “failed and broken system”.
An imam was stabbed in the neck outside a mosque in Greater Manchester last Sunday. Police are treating the attack as a hate crime and have arrested two men.
Over a third of state schools in England are operating with a cash deficit. The figure was revealed in an answer to a parliamentary question on school finances.
The international director of Cage, a human rights group, was found guilty this week of an offence under the Terrorism Act.
Transport for London (TfL) has not renewed taxi firm Uber’s licence to operate in London.
Shadow chancellor John McDonnell told a fringe meeting that a radical left Labour government would be ready to face attempts to undermine it by bankers and big businesses.
Hundreds of people joined a march against the Tories’ assault on the NHS in Brighton last Sunday.
