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Shadow Brexit secretary gives big job to former party campaigns chief and Ken Livingstone aide
As we all get ready to commit to our New Year’s resolutions, it’s worth knowing how and why our habits form. While we all start the new year with good intentions and gym memberships, we often overestimate how easy we think it will be to form new habits or break old ones. From the 21-day rule to why we prefer eating chips to hitting the gym, the Rundown does the research to get you ready for your new year, new you.
Glenda Caesar, who arrived in the UK as a baby in 1961, was unable to work for a decade.
Nine years after death of Jimmy Mubenga on a British Airways flight, Unite branches say they want no part in deporting immigrants.
US President Donald Trump is in the UK for the annual NATO Summit being held in London. This is his third trip across the pond, and a trip that was confirmed before the general election was called. HuffPost UK Politics News Editor Ned Simons explains what each political party will be hoping the notoriously explosive president will do or say during his visit that could bolster or harm their chances in next week’s general election.
Amy-Beth and Chris are both young parents who are care experienced, and fighting for a better life for kids and themselves. Young people leaving the care system are more likely to be living in poverty than the rest of the population.In this short documentary, HuffPost UK and The Ferret follow two care experienced young people trying to break that trend – and help change the system for future generations.Just Surviving: A Decade Of Austerity In Scotland is a four-part documentary series. It investigates the urgent issues facing vulnerable people in Scotland in the aftermath of austerity.We visit some of its worst-hit areas, including Dundee, Fife and Glasgow, to hear from those impacted by rising poverty rates, cuts in services for disabled people and an increase in drug-related deaths.
The UK sought to save £18 billion with the Welfare Reform Act of 2012. Today, one in five in Scotland are living in poverty.In this short documentary HuffPost UK and The Ferret follow Kim and Susan, two single mums trying to raise their children on Universal Credit.Just Surviving: A Decade Of Austerity In Scotland is a four-part documentary series.
HuffPost UK understands private polling shows party on course to lose seats, though position has tightened in recent weeks.
Government decided against changing the law after it concluded voters did not believe Jeremy Corbyn's election claims.
Election polls are hard to read at a time when party allegiances seem the weakest in generations, HuffPost UK editor-in-chief Jimmy Leach writes.