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A recent briefing paper from the Industrial Communities Alliance, an umbrella organisation of local authorities largely from former steel and coal mining communities, starkly states, ‘The UK steel industry is in a life and death struggle’. Corby borough council is a...

When Jeremy Corbyn was elected Labour leader last year, he declared emphatically: ‘Poverty isn’t inevitable.’ He was right – it isn’t. And neither is the Dickensian blight of rapidly rising homelessness – the darkest stain left by this Tory government on the fabric of...

Tuesday night saw the leaders of the main Scottish parties go head to head in the second debate of the Holyrood election campaign. Kezia Dugdale performed well, offering a strong and coherent electoral platform where Nicola Sturgeon stumbled over the inconsistencies...

Over 40,000 jobs are at risk if Tata walks away from the colossal steel works of Port Talbot in south Wales. The government has been left looking flat-footed and indecisive, with ministers unsure about whether to return from overseas trips and then sending out mixed...