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On Rent Caps and Local Housing Allowance Freeze

We welcome the research from Crisis and Zoopla on the growing disparity between rents and the Local Housing Allowance (LHA) published this week. We too recognise, and personally experience, the panic felt amongst private sector tenants dealing with unaffordable rent hikes as the LHA rates are now frozen again from April 1st. We agree that […]

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Response to Labour’s announcement of welfare cuts

This statement was released on instagram, bluesky, and twitter. Facebook has a post which links back to this article which has been reproduced here and includes sources. We appreciate any shares or comments. The current Labour government has made the indefensible choice to further worsen the lives of the most vulnerable. The planned cuts to […]

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Blue Labour

PoliticsHome has recently featured Blue Labour, chaired by Dan Carden, MP for Liverpool Walton, who explains to them. “I’m not scared of the term Blue Labour.” He does not mind the term “socially conservative” either, he adds, because “progressive politics” has threatened communities. “It’s challenged the value of long-standing institutions, from trade unions to churches.” […]