Brexit will inevitably dominate this campaign, but the next prime minister also needs positions on austerity, party unity and how to actually survive in parliament.
Young people in the UK experience some of the worst working conditions. To understand why we need to look at longer-term changes in the political economy.
Hadrian’s Wall in Northumberland National Park, UK.
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Mexico’s new president has reduced his own salary and demanded that all federal workers
– including lawmakers and judges – take a massive pay cut, too. That may be illegal.
But that counts people working less than six hours a week on zero-hour contracts.
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The UN’s special rapporteur on extreme poverty has given a damning indictment of how austerity has hit the UK. A former UN envoy explains why his calls to uphold social rights are so crucial.