Tories

Tory government responsible for highest Covid-19 death toll in Europe
News

Tory government responsible for highest Covid-19 death toll in Europe

England has had “the longest continuous period of excess mortality” and “the highest levels of excess mortality” in Europe.
30 July 2020
Make rich pay for care
Comment

Make rich pay for care

The Tories are looking to any avenue to solve the crisis in adult social care—without taxing the rich.
28 July 2020
NHS workers in a pay revolt
News

NHS workers in a pay revolt

Health workers are in revolt over the Tory refusal to give a pay rise to hundreds of thousands of people who work in the NHS.
28 July 2020
The Troublemaker

Woman died weighing 3 stone after DWP stopped her benefits

A cancer patient has died weighing just three stone after the Department for Work and Pensions stopped her benefits.
28 July 2020
Boris Johnson peddles obesity line to deflect blame for virus deaths
News

Boris Johnson peddles obesity line to deflect blame for virus deaths

The Tories are getting stuck into their latest tactic to divert blame from their own fatal failings.
27 July 2020
Tories’ pitiful ‘green’ plan is completely inadequate
Comment

Tories’ pitiful ‘green’ plan is completely inadequate

The government’s latest ‘green’ economic recovery plan is a cover for policies that benefit polluting big businesses writes Nick Clark
25 July 2020
‘We’ve been thrown on the scrap heap by the Tories’
Features

‘We’ve been thrown on the scrap heap by the Tories’

Workers facing poverty, unemployment and insecurity told Sadie Robinson why they feel they have been completely abandoned by their bosses and the government
25 July 2020
Poor twice as likely to die from virus as business booms for the bosses
News

Poor twice as likely to die from virus as business booms for the bosses

Class and wealth shapes who lives and who dies from coronavirus.
24 July 2020
Sturgeon might sound good, but the virus has been a disaster in Scotland
News

Sturgeon might sound good, but the virus has been a disaster in Scotland

Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has received glowing reviews for her handling of the Covid-19 crisis.
24 July 2020
Letters - ‘Kickstart’ program will give bosses opportunity to exploit
Letters

Letters – ‘Kickstart’ program will give bosses opportunity to exploit

Measures announced in Rishi Sunak’s mini-budget supposedly to help workers have been welcomed by the TUC.
23 July 2020
Tories didn’t prepare for a pandemic and then made up policy ‘on the hoof’
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Tories didn’t prepare for a pandemic and then made up policy ‘on the hoof’

The government showed an “astonishing” failure to plan for the economic fallout from a pandemic, according to a group of MPs.
23 July 2020
Pensions green paper repeats old lies
News

Sunak’s savage pension attack will snatch tens of thousands of pounds from workers

More than ten million people with pensions linked to their final salary face losing tens of thousands of pounds.
22 July 2020