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"We're governed by an interim prime minister whose Cabinet is more interested in their own egos than facing up to the biggest challenge to face our country since 1945"

May’s Florence speech can’t hide her Brexit indecision

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"Watch PMQs and you'll see party leaders throwing figures about the NHS, schools and policing at each other like they're snowballs."

Spinning the numbers: How politicians pull the wool over your eyes

*Blog

"People are emerging from prison more broken than they were before"

Chris Grayling’s probation reforms have been a disaster for the service

*Blog

"Many Brexit 'lies' cannot be defined as false' because they include terms that are vague or have no meaning"

Brexit lies and how to fight them

*Blog

"The phrase "less haste, more speed" could be applied equally to May's decision to call a general election and her mad rush to trigger Article 50."

May’s Brexit tactics are as awful as her election strategy

*Blog

"An open border economy does not mean unlimited migration for ever, but easy access to workers who cannot be found in Britain"

Free movement: How open borders helped the British economy soar

*Blog

"What it would give individuals and society is the gift of time"

A universal basic income would transform society for the better

Former Green leader Natalie Bennett on why it’s time to take a proper look at universal basic income

*Blog

"Pay is far from the only factor behind the growing crisis"

It’s right to end the nurses’ pay cap but how will it be funded?

Announcing an end to the pay cap without a commitment to fund it is not credible

*Blog

"Theresa May wanted to make life as difficult as possible for undocumented migrants, regardless of the consequences. She succeeded."

Big Brother state: How May’s obsession with immigration turned Britain into a surveillance state

*Blog

"Across aviation, rail, sea and road the concerns were mirrored."

Grounded: Dire outlook for Brexit transport negotiations

*Blog

"As the EU Withdrawal Bill moves to detailed examination in Committee in October, the influence of the ERG has stimulated more cooperation between the pro-EU organisations"

Pro-EU groups are fighting back against a hard Brexit

*Blog

"Brexit provides a perfect opportunity for would-be exploiters to make threats of immigration repercussions or to suggest that an EU citizen's status is lesser than that of a UK citizen"

Brexit risks turning the UK into fertile ground for labour exploitation

*Blog

"May in the Home Office gave us the 'hostile environment'. In Number 10 she is planning the same but worse, a hostile environment 2.0"

Hostile environment 2.0: Post-Brexit migration plans are all too familiar

*Comment & Analysis

The government's hard Brexit policy is likely to make the economic consequences more severe

The Tories are punishing immigrants as they turn Brexit into a shambles

*Blog

"For the most part, however, what the first minister served up as part of a long-trailed effort to "refresh" her administration"

Sturgeon speech: Hinting at radical reform is not the same as implementing it

*Blog

"This is about the hypocrisy in our system – a system that privileges the choices of the very rich and punishes the families of the very poor."

While we celebrate a new royal baby, poor families are being punished for having a third child

*Blog

"This is a battle that disabled people can't fight alone"

I’m Broken, Britain: This is a battle for survival

News

"The true sanctions figures are actually likely to be higher"

Benefit sanctions shoot up 50% in six months

*Blog

"These perceptions are part of a larger ideology ingrained in society"

It’s not just young Tories who hate the working class

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