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International campaign group Best for Britain has organised a conference in Birmingham to hear ideas which could influence parties' manifestos for the next election

The Prospect union, which represents staff across the Civil Service, said walkouts will take place on May 10 and June 7. Thousands of civil servants will strike again in a row over a pay

No amount of propaganda from can hide the dismal failure of 13 years of Tory misrule when plummeting living standards are the result of their catastrophic mistakes

The International Monetary Fund thinks UK plc will shrink 0.3%, and the only other advanced economy in the G7 group expected to decline is Germany’s, by 0.1%

As households face a big hike in bills on Saturday, Labour leader Keir Starmer will say he would use a windfall tax on oil and gas giants to stop them rising this year if he was in power

Analysis by academics and recorded in new report Earth4All project shows the world's population - currently at eight billion - will increase until 2040, before drastically falling

From April 1 - dubbed April Cruel Day - Brits will pay more for council tax, water, car tax, phones, prescriptions and stamps and it could hit outgoings by up to £700 per household

The revelation comes as the BanktheFood charity launches a fresh appeal for people to donate goods via its app to help ease the plight of hard-up households

Damning analysis by the TUC ruled that by next year, household disposable incomes will have fallen for nearly half of the time the Conservatives have been in office

A post-Budget analysis by the Resolution Foundation says household disposable incomes will still be lower in 2027-28 than before the Covid crisis while some Whitehall ministries face cuts of 10%

The Shadow Chancellor said Jeremy Hunt's 'gilded giveaway' decision to abolish the £1million pension lifetime allowance was the 'wrong priority' and for the 'wrong people'

To listen to the Chancellor you would be forgiven for thinking the Tories had successfully managed the economy for the last 13 years

The forecast came as the Chancellor Jeremy Hunt unveiled his Budget for 'growth' and said the economy will swerve a 'technical recession' in 2023.

Labour's Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary Jonathan Ashworth said working people are 'left paying the price of 13 years of economic failure under the Tories'

Aerial footage shot over three decades shows properties on the east coast of England being lost one by one as residents are left wondering whose home will be affected next

The Chancellor will make sweeping changes to the welfare system - and ramp up sanctions on benefit claimants who don't look for work - but parts of the new plan seem awfully familiar

The New Economics Foundation says those from the poorest households will be £330-a-year worse off with rents rising twice as fast between April 2020-2023 than pre-pandemic levels

The finding comes after grocery price inflation soared to 17.1% - adding £811 to households’ annual shopping bills - and with the Government under pressure to do more to help hard-up households

The study comes as the world prepares to mark International Women's Day next week with a focus on "equity"- and the Living Wage Foundation said: "True equity needs to start with a Real Living Wage"

The Labour leader made a speech setting out his 'mission' to give Britain the fastest, sustained growth in the G7 group of industrialised nations

The Labour leader will on Monday pledge to get Britain out of its current "doom loop" and achieve the highest growth in the G7

Vicki Alderman, 57, a self-employed artist, says she hasn't turned her radiators on at all this year because she can't afford the higher bills - she works 60 hours a week

The Confederation of British Industry wants Chancellor Jeremy Hunt to use next month's Budget to make sure staff are not penalised if firms give them one-off payments

The Labour politician revealed youngsters across the city will enjoy the 'lifeline' from September, with 270,000 children benefiting - saving families an estimated £440 a year

The Government wants to blame the pandemic and the war in Ukraine for this dire situation rather than admit it is the product of 12 years of Conservative failure