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6 days ago | 
leftfootforward.org | Chris Jarvis
On the most recent episode of the BBC‘s flagship political debate show Question Time, Reform UK MP Richard Tice went head to head with the general secretary of the University and College Union (UCU) Jo Grady. The show – broadcast from Hull – saw a fiery exchange between the two panellists over the aftermath of Reform’s recent local election successes in which Grady laid into the party’s political platform.
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1 week ago | 
leftfootforward.org | Chris Jarvis
The prime minister Keir Starmer and chancellor Rachel Reeves are coming under increasing pressure to abandon their planned cuts to disability benefits. The cuts will see a tightening of criteria for Personal Independence Payments which will see many people who would receive a daily living payment become ineligible for this. The cuts, announced earlier this year, are to hit 700,000 people already in poverty, and push around 250,000 people below the poverty line.
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1 week ago | 
leftfootforward.org | Chris Jarvis
A bombshell new opinion poll has suggested that Labour could be on track to be ousted from the Welsh Government, with Plaid Cymru set to be the main beneficiaries. Despite having been in government following every election since Welsh devolution was introduced in 1999, the poll puts Labour currently in third place behind both Plaid Cymru and Reform UK.
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1 week ago | 
leftfootforward.org | Chris Jarvis
Carla Denyer, one of the two current co-leaders of the Green Party of England and Wales has confirmed she won’t be re-standing for the role in this year’s leadership election. Denyer has said the reason for her decision is that she wants dedicate more time to her new role as the MP for Bristol Central. Denyer was elected as co-leader of the Green Party in 2021 alongside Adrian Ramsay.
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1 week ago | 
bright-green.org | Chris Jarvis
A date has been set for a debate on a parliamentary petition calling for the law to be change to allow transgender people to be granted gender recognition certificates on the basis of self-identification.
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1 week ago | 
leftfootforward.org | Chris Jarvis
Seven Tory MPs have called for the government to recognise a Palestinian state. They, alongside six Tory peers have written to the prime minister Keir Starmer making the call in advance of UN talks next month. According to a report in the Guardian, the group of Tory parliamentarians wrote to Starmer in March following Israel breaking the ceasefire in Gaza.
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1 week ago | 
leftfootforward.org | Chris Jarvis
Reform UK has made opposition to working from home a particular focus of its public narrative, particularly in the wake of the local elections. The party’s leader Nigel Farage has said that in the councils Reform now controls it will end staff working from home. He has said that Reform would ensure ‘no more work from home’, in order to deliver ‘increased productivity’.
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1 week ago | 
leftfootforward.org | Chris Jarvis
A growing number of MPs have called for the government to scrap its cuts to both the Winter Fuel Allowance and disability benefits in the aftermath of the party losing a parliamentary by-election and mayoral election to Reform last Thursday. Labour also lost almost 200 local council seats to a number of parties, including Reform, the Lib Dems and the Greens.
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1 week ago | 
dev.to | Chris Jarvis
It's May. Just a few weeks left of school. The weather is warming up. The local summer farmer's market has opened. Fresh fruits and food trucks on Thursdays. What are your goals for the week? What are you building? What are you working on this week? Are you attending any events this week? Continue Job Search. Network, Send emails. Project work. Content for side project. Work on my own project. Blog. Events. Thursday Virtual Coffee.
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1 week ago | 
bright-green.org | Chris Jarvis
The current deputy leader of the Green Party of England and Wales Zack Polanski has announced he is standing to be party’s next leader. He’s the first candidate to announce he’s in the running in the leadership election set to take place this summer. Launching is campaign in the Guardian, Polanski said that the Green Party isn’t ‘being as bold as we can be’ to fill the ‘vacuum’ left by the disappointment the public feels with both the Labour government and the Tories.
