Labour

Starmer promises planning passports will put ‘rocket boosters’ on Labour housebuilding efforts
HOUSING

Starmer promises planning passports will put ‘rocket boosters’ on Labour housebuilding efforts

Rachel Reeves promises ‘no return to austerity’ amid fears of cuts to benefits in autumn budget
Social Justice

Rachel Reeves promises ‘no return to austerity’ amid fears of cuts to benefits in autumn budget

Welcome to Big Issue’s Big Community
Big Community

Welcome to Big Issue’s Big Community

‘Poverty is out of control’: Over half of Brits say Labour not doing enough to help people in poverty
Poverty

‘Poverty is out of control’: Over half of Brits say Labour not doing enough to help people in poverty

Arguments in favour of winter fuel payment cuts are built on sand – here’s the truth
Simon Francis

Arguments in favour of winter fuel payment cuts are built on sand – here’s the truth

‘My son lives without any joy’: How DWP’s two-child benefit limit is punishing children in crisis
Joseph Howes

‘My son lives without any joy’: How DWP’s two-child benefit limit is punishing children in crisis

Rachel Reeves must put money where her mouth is and end austerity’s grip on women in autumn budget
Ignacia Pinto

Rachel Reeves must put money where her mouth is and end austerity’s grip on women in autumn budget

I’ve never known a government to renege on election promises as quickly as this one
John Bird

I’ve never known a government to renege on election promises as quickly as this one

Labour won’t hit 1.5 million home target without putting up serious cash to get Britain building
HOUSING

Labour won’t hit 1.5 million home target without putting up serious cash to get Britain building

Thousands call on Labour and DWP to scrap ‘dangerous’ disability benefit reforms
Disability benefits

Thousands call on Labour and DWP to scrap ‘dangerous’ disability benefit reforms

Four ways Labour’s Renters’ Rights Bill differs from the Tories’ doomed Renters Reform Bill
RENTING

Four ways Labour’s Renters’ Rights Bill differs from the Tories’ doomed Renters Reform Bill

Keir Starmer promised us a rose garden – but instead we just got déjà vu
John Bird

Keir Starmer promised us a rose garden – but instead we just got déjà vu

Cuts to disability benefits in autumn budget would plunge disabled people into deep poverty
Anela Anwar

Cuts to disability benefits in autumn budget would plunge disabled people into deep poverty

MPs vote to cut winter fuel payment for millions of pensioners: ‘This is a really bad decision’
Winter Fuel Payment

MPs vote to cut winter fuel payment for millions of pensioners: ‘This is a really bad decision’

Sadiq Khan: ‘Keir Starmer didn’t get into politics to take things from people who need them’
Winter Fuel Payment

Sadiq Khan: ‘Keir Starmer didn’t get into politics to take things from people who need them’

Renters’ Rights Bill: Labour has ‘once-in-a-generation opportunity’ to fix the renting crisis
Renting

Renters’ Rights Bill: Labour has ‘once-in-a-generation opportunity’ to fix the renting crisis

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Asylum seeker still waiting for decision from Home Office after 16 years in limbo: ‘It’s degrading’
Immigration

Asylum seeker still waiting for decision from Home Office after 16 years in limbo: ‘It’s degrading’

Four things Labour’s new taskforce must do immediately to end homelessness
Rick Henderson

Four things Labour’s new taskforce must do immediately to end homelessness

Labour MP Rupa Huq looks back (not in anger) on interviewing Noel Gallagher for Big Issue in 1999
Rupa Huq

Labour MP Rupa Huq looks back (not in anger) on interviewing Noel Gallagher for Big Issue in 1999

Death of six children and pregnant woman in migrant boat tragedy shows need for asylum safe routes
Small boats

Death of six children and pregnant woman in migrant boat tragedy shows need for asylum safe routes