The UK’s new prime minister is due to be announced on 5 September, and rumours have it that an emergency budget will be catapulted out weeks later. I’m sure undergraduate essays are usually more thought-through than that, never mind solutions to the deepening cost of living crisis the country is facing.
In this context, it’s really no surprise that grassroots responses are strengthening across the country. We’re seeing the highest rate of industrial disputes for half a decade, as workers from numerous industries, including train drivers, university lecturers and criminal barristers, go on strike. We’re also seeing newly formed campaign groups such as Enough Is Enough and Don’t Pay UK winning public sympathy.
While the former group is aiming to boost public support for industrial action and may be building ground for a general strike, the latter is organising around the unaffordability of energy prices.
