cuts Articles

It was when Theresa May became a cabinet minister that I really realised that David Cameron didn’t share my values. It was the night that the coalition was formed, and, as I often do when things haven’t gone my way, I turned to the bottle. Some friends and I headed to...

Being a student under the coalition government has been anything but easy. The cuts and new legislation in place have made students extremely vulnerable. With unemployment rates being over 70,000 for young people, the coalition have failed to keep their promises. As a...

Women are hardest hit by the coalition Anna Bird —As a result of austerity, many women are becoming poorer and less financially autonomous. That was the finding of the Fawcett Society’s report last year, The Impact of Austerity on Women, which pulled together all the...

I read the recent article by Stephanie Flanders on whether people have noticed the cuts to council services with a sense of calm ‘before the storm’. As the leader of a local authority faced with cuts much higher than the national average I constantly worry about the...