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23 June: the day Vote Leave’s crusade against inequality ends

Vote Leave’s campaign director Dominic Cummings – a man who managed to spend two and half years in an underground bunker but just eight months working for Iain Duncan Smith – had a very enjoyable star turn at the Treasury select committee last week. He did not take...

Hunting for a way out

Late last week Heidi Alexander made a last-ditch plea to the government in a bid to halt imposition and instead pursue a pilot of the new contract with independent evaluation and auditing of 'the weekend effect', an idea co-signed from across the House of Commons and...

Choose hope over fear

It is no surprise that the mayoral election has been a contest of competing visions for London. But, rather than a contrast between competing ideas for the capital's transport or policing, while we have set out our plans to improve London, the Tories’ vision has...

We can prevent homelessness. Why don’t we?

Yesterday saw an important and rare moment in the fight against homelessness. Yes, homelessness in England continues to rise – rough sleeping has doubled since 2010. And yes, people are still suffering – the average age of death for a homeless person is just 47. But...