The IPPR has uncovered overwhelming public support for a fundamental change in how the British economy is run.

Labour has pledged to wage war on the 'ten modern scourges of poverty' and reverse the damage of a decade of austerity.
Publishing a new Report, Poverty Britain, which highlights ten ways the Tories have failed to tackle poverty and entrenched hardship in society, Labour claims that wage stagnation under the Conservative government has cost the average worker around £6,300 in lost wages.

The British Red Cross is calling for the law to be updated to give communities more say in how they are treated in an emergency.

Almost half a million children who are worried about their feelings or behaviour are not asking anyone for help.

The Lib Dems have promised to recruit 20,000 more teachers and spend an extra £10 billion on schools each year.

The Mayor of Sheffield City Region has declared a climate emergency in South Yorkshire following floods earlier this month.
Having discussed the issue at a meeting with council leaders from Sheffield, Rotherham, Barnsley and Doncaster, Dan Jarvis expressed ‘sincere condolences’ for the communities along the River Don which were flooded earlier this month and said that ‘our current economic model is destroying our planet’, before declaring ‘a climate and environmental emergency’.

Two communities in Leicester will get 20mph zones covering residential streets after local support for the road safety schemes.

Researchers have argued that the so-called ‘social prescribing’ of exercise to patients may not yield the benefits hoped for.
Exercise referral schemes have been at the disposal of GPs since the 1990s, in an attempt to boost activity levels in people with long-term conditions or at risk of developing them. The costs of physical inactivity to the NHS were estimated as £900 million in 2015, which rose to £1.2 billion in 2017.