

Over 20 human rights, pro-choice, and international aid groups, and the Norwegian and Danish Governments, have called on the UK Government to reverse its decision to arbitrarily strip ‘sexual and reproductive health and rights’ and ‘bodily autonomy’ from an international human rights statement it – and 22 other countries – signed only two weeks ago…. Read more »
Longevity think tank Phoenix Insights, part of Phoenix Group, is today calling for the Government to reinvest up to £1billion of the potential savings that will come about if it raises the state pension age again, to support those most negatively impacted by a rise. The last rise in state pension age did not simply… Read more »
John Prescott has defended Ed Miliband’s right to dismiss the work of the IPPR think-tank, declaring in a Sunday newspaper: “These wonks can be pretty precious.”
Ed Balls effectively rules out rail nationalisation from the Labour manifesto, just hours after it emerged the party’s policy supremo complained of the “profound dead hand at the centre” of the party