Coronavirus: ‘Clipper’ PPE service needed now, councils urge
Dwindling supplies of vital life-saving personal protective equipment for frontline care workers will run out within days amid the delayed roll-out of the Government’s...
Insurance customers able to request three month payment holiday from Monday
Insurance customers who are struggling financially because of coronavirus will be able to request payment holidays from next week – and some may also...
100,000 people sign petitions to replace slave trade statues and signs around the UK
Hundreds of petitions have been started on petition platform Change.org to replace statues and signs of slave traders, colonialists and imperialists since the statue...
New regime needed to take on tech giants Facebook and Google
The Competition and Markets Authority is calling on the government to introduce a new pro-competition regulatory regime to tackle Google and Facebook’s market power.
The...
Bereaved COVID-19 families fighting for justice are backed by Labour leader
Lawyers from Broudie Jackson Canter and representatives of COVID-19 Bereaved Families for Justice UK have had their fight for justice backed by Labour leader...
Job vacancies rising, but some areas have struggled to weather the storm
New analysis published today shows tentative signs of recovery in the jobs market following the easing of lockdown measures.
New vacancies rose by more than...
New research finds social fractures caused by Covid-19 are more divisive than Brexit
A new poll from think tank Demos finds that Covid-19 is causing deeper social divides than Brexit, with more than half of mask wearers...
Even after the COVID-19 crisis, councils will need billions of extra funding to address...
English councils are facing a financial double whammy, with increases in costs and losses in income as a result of the COVID-19 crisis coming...
Third of people want coronavirus lockdown rule-breakers to be jailed, survey shows
A third of people are in favour of prison sentences for those who break coronavirus lockdown rules, according to a major new survey.
The poll...
As furlough scheme ends Government must bring forward plan for protection of health, jobs...
As the Job Retention Scheme closes the leader of the country's leading trade union has called on the government to give an exhausted country...