Boris Johnson’s pledge to ‘build, build, build’ could put the English countryside and its wildlife at serious risk.

Shelter has said that the number of private tenants in England who have fallen behind on rent has doubled during the coronavirus pandemic.

Sir Simon Stevens has revealed that plans to adequately fund the social care sector need to be in place within a year.
Speaking to the BBC, the NHS England chief executive said that coronavirus crisis had shone a ‘very harsh spotlight’ on the ‘resilience’ of the care system and that there was a need to ‘decisively answer’ how high quality care could be provided long-term.

A government scheme to help get more families across England into affordable homes has been extended by a year.

Britain’s arts, culture and heritage industries will receive a £1.57 billion rescue package to help weather the impact of coronavirus.

Communities that depend on tourism will receive a major boost from a new £10 million Kick-starting Tourism Package.

A large-scale new tree planting initiative, which forms part of Leeds’ programme to make the city carbon neutral by 2030, has been launched.

New analysis by the IPPR think tank estimates that an extra 620,000 young people will be unemployed by the end of the year.

Labour has stressed that Rishi Sunak must lay out urgent plans to realign government spending with the target to cut carbon emissions to net zero.

Shadow Chancellor Anneliese Dodds is urging the government to commit to a ‘Back to Work Budget focused on jobs, jobs, jobs’.