Lucy Hough
Journalist and Broadcaster at Freelance
Audio Journalist at The Guardian
Audio journalist @guardian // @guardianaudio. Previously @global and @featurestory
Articles
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1 month ago |
theguardian.com | Michael Safi |Adam Gabbatt |Lucy Hough |Rudi Zygadlo |Homa Khaleeli |Elizabeth Cassin
“Border Patrol always had the right to grill people trying to enter the US, right,” Guardian US reporter Adam Gabbatt tells Michael Safi. “But from what we can tell now, Border Patrol agents are now much more likely to basically get into people’s business, so to search people’s devices, particularly mobile phones, and there seems to have been a real spike in the number of people being questioned and now detained.
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1 month ago |
theguardian.com | Helen Pidd |Peter Walker |Lucy Hough |Hannah Moore |Joel Cox |Homa Khaleeli
Rachel Reeves had said that her government was all about growth. But as she stood up to give her spring statement it was clear that green shoots could not yet be seen. The UK’s growth forecast for this year had been halved, leaving the chancellor with a problem. It was a new world of global insecurity, she said, but her response was not to raise taxes or break her fiscal rules. Instead, she would make big cuts – including to welfare.
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1 month ago |
theguardian.com | Michael Safi |Sami Kent |Ruth Michaelson |Hannah Moore |Lucy Hough |Joel Cox | +1 more
It has been more than two decades since Recep Tayyip Erdoğan became Turkey’s president. Over the years, Erdoğan’s regime has become increasingly authoritarian, eroding press freedoms and removing checks to his power. But in the last week mass protests have erupted. Pouring on to the streets of Istanbul, thousands have defied government warnings and a crackdown by riot police to ensure their voices are heard.
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1 month ago |
theguardian.com | Homa Khaleeli |Helen Pidd |Patrick Butler |Lucy Hough |Hannah Moore |Joel Cox
On Tuesday the welfare secretary, Liz Kendall, set out her plans to save £5bn from the government’s welfare bill. The current situation is unsustainable, the government says. With the numbers of people claiming disability benefits soaring, it was time for a fairer system, she said. For many disabled people, who have felt the effects of successive governments’ attempts to reform the welfare system, it was a stressful moment.
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2 months ago |
theguardian.com | Lucy Hough |Eleni Courea |Ruth Abrahams |Eleanor Biggs |Joel Cox |Elizabeth Cassin
On Friday, the MP Rupert Lowe criticised Nigel Farage in an interview with the Daily Mail, saying Reform UK was a “protest party led by the Messiah”, and that it was “too early to know whether Nigel will deliver the goods” and become prime minister. The next day, Lowe was suspended by the party. Reform UK published a statement making a series of allegations against him, including that he had made threats against the party chair, Zia Yusuf.
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