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Labour MP proposes banning wet wipes containing plastics

Labour MP Fleur Anderson has proposed a new law which would ban wet wipes containing plastic. In a ten minute rule motion, the MP for Putney said that in 2019, a staggering 11 billion wet wipes were used in the UK. “The plastic in wet wipes breaks down into microplastics, which don’t dissolve ever. They… Read more »

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Sunak defends cutting universal credit uplift

The chancellor Rishi Sunak has defended the government’s decision to cut the universal credit uplift. Whilst giving evidence to the economic affairs committee, the chancellor stressed the uplift was always temporary, arguing in favour of the government’s recent decision to slash the universal credit taper rate by 8%. “We had a welfare system that existed… Read more »