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Labour triples emergency funding to help rough sleepers in freezing temperatures
Crisis chief executive Matt Downie with housing secretary Angela Rayner and homelessness minister Rushanara Ali
Homelessness

Labour triples emergency funding to help rough sleepers in freezing temperatures

Rough sleeping winter pressures funding has been increased from £10m to £30m after freezing January pushed frontline homelessness services to the limit. But Homelessness minister Rushanara Ali admitted the funding alone will not ‘plug the gap’
Blue Monday: The truth behind the so-called 'most depressing day of the year'
Blue Monday Fact/Fiction
Mental health

Blue Monday: The truth behind the so-called 'most depressing day of the year'

What impact will Trump's presidency actually have on the UK? Here's everything you need to know
Donald Trump

What impact will Trump's presidency actually have on the UK? Here's everything you need to know

London workers earn in 8 months what Burnley workers do in a year. It's hurting UK growth
Wages

London workers earn in 8 months what Burnley workers do in a year. It's hurting UK growth

These 11 pioneering rewilding projects are helping bring nature back in Britain
Rewilding

These 11 pioneering rewilding projects are helping bring nature back in Britain

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The 1.5C global warming target is a 'delusion', warns climate scientist who fled Los Angeles
Global heating

The 1.5C global warming target is a 'delusion', warns climate scientist who fled Los Angeles

'I'm going to miss him': Calls for plaque in memory to 'gentle' Big Issue vendor who died aged 57
Big Issue vendor Darren Prentice
Our Vendors

'I'm going to miss him': Calls for plaque in memory to 'gentle' Big Issue vendor who died aged 57

Tories under fire over U-turn on pledge to protect renters from no-fault evictions
Conservative shadow housing secretary Kevin Hollinrake at the Renters' Rights Bill third reading
Renting

Tories under fire over U-turn on pledge to protect renters from no-fault evictions

Labour doubles down on slashing billions from DWP's disability benefits bill
dwp's liz kendall
Disability benefits

Labour doubles down on slashing billions from DWP's disability benefits bill

DWP's 'misleading and unfair' consultation on disability benefit reforms unlawful, High Court rules
A meeting of the child poverty taskforce. From left to right: Mayor of the North East Kim McGuinness, work and pensions secretary Liz Kendall and education secretary Bridget Phillippson.
Disability benefits

DWP's 'misleading and unfair' consultation on disability benefit reforms unlawful, High Court rules

Rents in UK are rising at highest rate in decades. Will they keep going up?
rents uk
Renting

Rents in UK are rising at highest rate in decades. Will they keep going up?

Is the cost of living crisis over and will prices in the UK ever come down?
Cost of living crisis

Is the cost of living crisis over and will prices in the UK ever come down?

What is the Renters' Rights Bill? All you need to know about Labour’s plan to end no-fault evictions
Protesters from the London Renters Union protest high rents in May 2024
RENTING

What is the Renters' Rights Bill? All you need to know about Labour’s plan to end no-fault evictions

From fake birds to Andrew Tate: How one group is tackling conspiracy theories in schools
Andrew Tate
Conspiracy theories

From fake birds to Andrew Tate: How one group is tackling conspiracy theories in schools

Can people actually self-diagnose with mental illness and claim disability benefits?
Tony Blair
Benefits

Can people actually self-diagnose with mental illness and claim disability benefits?

Right to Buy sales are set to plummet – but Labour is still facing £50bn bill to fix housing crisis
a row of homes in the UK
Housing crisis

Right to Buy sales are set to plummet – but Labour is still facing £50bn bill to fix housing crisis

Government rejects MPs' bid to cap record-high rents as Renters' Rights Bill passes through Commons
Labour housing minister Matthew Pennycook
RENTING

Government rejects MPs' bid to cap record-high rents as Renters' Rights Bill passes through Commons

Labour's rental reforms not doing enough for disabled tenants, MPs and campaigners warn
Deputy prime minister Angela Rayner
Renters' Rights Bill

Labour's rental reforms not doing enough for disabled tenants, MPs and campaigners warn

'Rushed implementation' of AI in DWP benefits system could 'harm' people, experts fear
Prime Minister Keir Starmer visits University College London East as part of the AI Opportunities Action Plan.
Department for Work and Pensions

'Rushed implementation' of AI in DWP benefits system could 'harm' people, experts fear

Woman with heart condition, 72, hit with revenge eviction after asking landlord for simple repairs
Deborah from Sheffield faced a section 21 eviction
No-fault evictions

Woman with heart condition, 72, hit with revenge eviction after asking landlord for simple repairs

Starmer wants to 'mainline' AI into the UK's 'veins'. Here are the opportunities – and the risks
Artificial Intelligence

Starmer wants to 'mainline' AI into the UK's 'veins'. Here are the opportunities – and the risks

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Renters' Rights Bill must stop landlords raising rents above wages or inflation, government told
Housing secretary Angela Rayner is responsible for Labour renting reforms
RENTING

Renters' Rights Bill must stop landlords raising rents above wages or inflation, government told

Meet the 'activist lawyer' who fought for justice for a toddler who died from damp and mould
Awaab's Law lawyer Christian Weaver
Awaab's law

Meet the 'activist lawyer' who fought for justice for a toddler who died from damp and mould

Cruise ships pump out 10 times the CO2 per passenger as flying. Can they turn the tide?
Sustainable travel

Cruise ships pump out 10 times the CO2 per passenger as flying. Can they turn the tide?

'Dictators die, the people live on': What Syria's revolution means for those who fled Assad's regime
Syria

'Dictators die, the people live on': What Syria's revolution means for those who fled Assad's regime