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Low-pay retailers must have ‘clear spotlight’ shone on them, says think tank

A report published on Thursday says retail workers who are paid less than the real living wage are being ‘hung out to dry’.

The Independent UK

Public sector pay rises of 10% would add little to inflation, says UK thinktank

IPPR report undermines Rishi Sunak’s argument that larger wage settlements would be inflationary

The Guardian - UK

Double-digit pay rises for public sector workers not inflationary – think tank

The Institute for Public Policy Research says public sector staff should be offered a 10.5% rise.

The Independent UK

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Tony Blair urges expanded role for private sector as NHS turns 75

Former PM says service needs radical reform, including pointing patients to private healthcare offers

The Guardian - UK

UK economy in growth ‘doom loop’ after decades of underinvestment

Institute for Public Policy Research points to £500bn-plus underspend compared with other advanced economies

The Guardian - UK

England ‘4,700 years from building enough onshore windfarms’

Thinktank says effective ban on planning permissions means country is way behind on much-needed renewable energy

The Guardian - UK

DWP Universal Credit warning as half a million people have benefits cut due to sanctions

More than 540,000 people had their benefit payments reduced or stopped in the past year, according to figures

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Record numbers of British workers are sick. No wonder the economy is too. But there is a cure

The Tories have failed to pursue the obvious answers to this crisis, punishing ill people and NHS strikers instead, says Guardian economics editor Larry Elliott

The Guardian - UK

Britain’s poor record on health costs economy £43bn a year, says report

Thinktank urges ministers to make reducing long-term sickness health equivalent of drive for net zero

The Guardian - UK

900 Afghans crossed Channel this year but ‘many will be abandoned under lllegal Migration Bill’ - thinktank

The majority of small boat crossings in 2023 were made by Afghan nationals

Evening Standard

Higher earners in Scotland to pay more tax from today as new laws come into force

With the beginning of the new financial year, the tax changes, which ministers have claimed would raise an extra £129 million in 2023-24, laid out in the budget have come to fruition.

Edinburgh Live

Boost the economy by offering routine NHS surgery at the weekend – report

Analysists have said that helping people return to work or increase their hours could boost the economy by billions.

The Independent UK

‘Dystopian’ surveillance ‘disproportionately targets young, female and minority workers’

Thinktank calls on UK government for stronger regulation to protect workers from intrusive monitoring

The Guardian - UK

DWP claimants in North East more likely to be sanctioned than other parts of country

Report by IPPR calls for sanctioning to be suspended during the cost of living crisis

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Going ahead with tougher sanctions for benefit claimants ‘foolish and unfair’

A think tank warned that more people on social security are at risk of hardship and destitution if their payments are cut.

Daily Mirror

Benefit sanctions regime should be suspended during cost of living crisis, ministers told

The demand from the IPPR think-tank comes a week after the Chancellor Jeremy Hunt warned in the Budget that the Tory Government would apply benefit sanctions more 'rigorously'

The Guardian - UK

Half of people trying to get permanent UK residency by 10-year route struggle to afford food

Effects of ‘devastating and punishing’ Home Office system introduced in 2012 now being felt, experts say

Daily Mirror

World risks falling into climate 'DOOM LOOP' as 'phoney war' with crisis ends

A new report from the Institute for Public Policy Research has said the world is heading for a "doom loop" with an author claiming that we are now facing the real consequences of climate change

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Evening Standard

‘Stuck in a doom loop’: Climate researchers say long-term thinking needed to avert crisis now

The Institute for Public Policy Research sets out the urgent need for action.

Birmingham Post

North of England starved of investment, thinktank report finds

Report from IPPR North says that the region would have the second lowest investment in OECD if it was a standalone nation

The Independent UK

Report reveals lack of investment in North of England compared with rest of the world

If the region were a country, it would be second-to-last in the OECD for underinvestment, according to IPPR North

Daily Mirror

Labour drawing up plans to give parents more free childcare in '£6bn' election pledge

The Mirror understands the party is talking about making childcare a key offer in the next election, with more free nursery hours for parents of two, three and four-year-olds under discussion

The Independent UK

One in five British adults still feel unsafe in public places due to Covid-19

Researchers say vaccine drive is vital to help people return to work

The Independent UK

Regional divides widening as Britain gets ‘sicker and poorer’, report finds

More than £30,000 a year separates the average person in the northeast from their London counterpart, according to data reviewed by the Institute for Public Policy research

The Guardian - UK

Health and wealth divides in UK worsening despite ‘levelling up’ drive, report finds

Exclusive: economic inactivity due to sickness at highest level since records began, with north, Wales and Northern Ireland disproportionately affected

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