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The number of children living in poverty is set to soar to 5.2 million in the next five years as the richest members of our society get richer. New research from the Institute for Fiscal Studies has predicted an increase of more than a million in the number of children living in poverty, more than reversing all the progress made over the past 20 years. The shocking numbers come as new OECD figures reveal the gulf between the rich and poor...

Women will have to wait more than two centuries to achieve equality in the workplace, according to new research. According to a damning study it will take 217 years for disparities in the pay and employment opportunities of men and women to end. This is significantly longer than the 170 years its researchers calculated a year ago - signalling that things are only getting worse. Commenting on the World Economic Forum study, Professor Marianna Fotaki of Warwick Business School said: "Cultural assumptions...

The Bank of England has raised interest rates today for the first time in more than ten years. The official bank rate has been lifted from 0.25 per cent to 0.5 per cent, the first increase since July 2007. Almost four million households face higher mortgage interest payments after the rise, raising concerns as families struggle to battle rising inflation and stagnant wages. Of the 8.1 million households with a mortgage, 3.7 million, or 46 per cent, are on either...

Professor Dame Glynis Breakwell is now facing more calls to stand down from her £451,000-a-year post in charge at Bath. One of her fiercest critics is former Labour peer Lord Adonis who described the figures as 'tragedy in the making'. He said he would do her job for nothing in a bid to restore the university's reputation. He said: "The vice-chancellor is steadily undermining her own university and her council refuses to stand up to her. “It is obviously time...

Shocking new research by a leading UK thinktank has revealed that the number of children living in poverty is set to soar to 5.2 million in the next five years. With government welfare cuts hitting the households with young families the hardest, more children than ever will be plunged into the depths of poverty under the Conservative government. New research from the Institute for Fiscal Studies predicts an increase of more than a million in the number of children living...

Right wing activist Laura Loomer has been banned from Uber after she tweeted about her inability to find a car driven by a “non Muslim.” The former Project Veritas operative tweeted that she was late to a New York Police Department press conference on the recent terror attack because she was unable to find an Uber that was not driven by someone who did not look like they were Muslim. According to news sources her comments then escalated to asking for the creation of...

Theresa May’s government faced more humiliation last night, unable to contest a vote in Parliament that the opposition had brought calling on the government to reveal reports they had commissioned into the possible effects of Brexit. For months, Labour has called for reports into the economic effects of Brexit into 58 sectors of the country to be made public so that the public is aware of the possible consequences that the government are covering up. Yet another defeat for the...

The Conservative sexual harassment scandal has claimed its first scalp as Defence Secretary Michael Fallon has resigned, admitting he has "fallen below the high standards that we require of the Armed Forces." As even more serious allegations of sexual assault and date rape drugs emerged from Tory Party workers this evening, adding to the scandal that has threatened to engulf the party since last week, Michael Fallon wrote to the Prime Minister to resign his position after it emerged he...

As a list of 36 Tory MPs mired in sexual sleaze compiled by Conservative MP's researchers, secretaries and office staff going viral on social media, Theresa May was challenged in parliament about repeated warnings to her that party whips were using information on sexual abuse by their MPs to blackmail them. Theresa May was accused of ignoring THREE warnings that political enforcers or “whips" "used information about sexual abuse to demand loyalty from MPs” “Three years ago I brought evidence to...