Philip Hammond has been urged to use next month's Spring Statement to outline measures to fix the broken labour market and rescue the working poor. The Commons work and pensions committee chairman Frank Field called on the chancellor to tackle an "overwhelming precariousness" that has "engulfed families in low-waged work". ...
The Church of England has put forward plans for five days of Brexit prayers after Britain leaves the European Union at the end of next month. Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, the church's spiritual leader, says he wants to pray in public with the leaders of the Catholic, Methodist, Baptist ...
This week's announcement that nine Labour MPs have quit the party to join forces with centrist Conservatives as the Independent Group sounds like a little bit of history repeating for those old enough to remember the formation of the Social Democratic Party. In January 1981, four cabinet ministers announced their intention to ...
A new campaign has launched today encouraging more City financial and professional services firms to pay the London Living Wage. The City of London Corporation, which runs the campaign backed by the Living Wage Foundation, is taking over the London Underground with a poster campaign to get more firms to ...
A cross party coalition between the Liberal Democrats, SNP and newly-formed Independent Group could stand a chance of ousting the big two for the first time in modern British political history at the next General Election if they campaign on a Remain ticket. Early indications suggest the Independent Group and ...
A thoughtful document illustrating how to deal with Syrian returners has re-surfaced following Sajid Javid's decision to strip Shamima Begum of her British citizenship. The United Kingdom’s Strategy for Countering Terrorism, published in June last year, details a four step approach that should be used to deal with a British woman who ...
The concept of equilibrium, one of the most central ideas in economics and one of the core assumptions in the vast majority of economic models, may have serious problems, concludes a study from the Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School. The concept of equilibrium is the basis of ...
Mohammed Rahman, whose brother is married to Shamima's sister, says the public should support the government's decision.
A gallery of incredible images depicting a year in the life of an ancient oak tree as it adapts to the ever-changing seasons have been released. The series of twelve shots were snapped by Ingo Gerlach, 65, over a one year period - showing the tree as it withstands the ...