News / Deliveroo’s gig economy event at Labour conference featured no riders...again The company’s CEO told the audience he didn’t know why there was no worker representation on the panel By Ruby Lott-Lavigna / 9 Oct 2023
News / Right-wing think tank set to ‘expand network’ into Labour Party The Adam Smith Institute, which does not declare its UK funders, said it is set to announce a Labour peer as a patron By Ruby Lott-Lavigna / 8 Oct 2023
News / Opaque think tanks, landlords and the arms industry dominate Tory conference Lobby groups and big business had a front row seat with cabinet ministers in Manchester this week By Ruby Lott-Lavigna / 5 Oct 2023
Opinion / Rishi Sunak wants you to forget the last 13 years Listening to the PM in Manchester, you’d be forgiven for thinking a different party has been running the country By Ruby Lott-Lavigna / 4 Oct 2023
News / Renters aren’t all ‘weed-smoking bad people in gangs’, says Tory housing minister Rachel Maclean reassured a room full of landlords that some renters aren’t ‘smashing up the neighbourhood’ By Ruby Lott-Lavigna / 2 Oct 2023
News / Government debunked a 15-minute city conspiracy theory... then endorsed it Levelling up department’s own guidance contradicts comments by transport secretary Mark Harper at Tory conference By Ruby Lott-Lavigna / 2 Oct 2023
News / Health department slammed for delaying key evidence to Covid inquiry The inquiry has warned that the government’s latest stalling could be ‘detrimental’ to its investigations By Ruby Lott-Lavigna / 27 Sep 2023
News / Revealed: Landlords’ lobbying ahead of Sunak U-turn on green homes Propertymark and National Residential Landlords’ Association urged Tories to weaken energy efficiency rules for rentals By Ruby Lott-Lavigna / 20 Sep 2023
News / Covid inquiry finds government wrongly labelled some evidence ‘irrelevant’ Battle to keep Boris Johnson’s WhatsApps and diaries secret is partial success – but some could now be made public By Ruby Lott-Lavigna / 18 Sep 2023
News / ‘We’ve been told nothing’, say families on Essex estate built using RAAC Exclusive: Council housing tenants on a Basildon estate built using RAAC say no one has ever flagged it as an issue By Camille Corcoran and Ruby Lott-Lavigna / 8 Sep 2023
News / RAAC scandal spreads to housing as estate revealed to contain aerated concrete Government has no plans to pay for work on risky housing despite warnings of ‘cladding-style crisis in the making’ By Ruby Lott-Lavigna and Sam Gelder / 7 Sep 2023
News / Net zero minister linked to oil-funded group that targeted climate protesters Claire Coutinho was senior fellow at Policy Exchange, which drafted law to crack down on XR and other climate activists By Ruby Lott-Lavigna / 1 Sep 2023