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What it means to be wealthy in 2025

Most of us think we're poorer than we are – this disconnect creates worse social outcomes for us all

Nov 29 •

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The Lead Untangles: Is the mansion tax fair?

What is the mansion tax, who does it affect, and does it go far enough?

Nov 27 •

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Notes from the North: Investigating The 79th Group, Lancashire to abolish itself and a major food bank at risk

All the highlights from our exclusive reporting as part of The Lead North, including on the case of an investment implosion in Southport

Nov 27 •

Luke Beardsworth

Reform Watch: Failing councils, far right beliefs and Farage's schoolboy racism

Each week we cast over eyes over what Reform have been up to – from bizarre proclamations to the detail of how their attempts to run councils are going.

Nov 27 •

The Lead Digest: Wicked, Techno and the Orbanisation of the far right

Our round-up from The Lead’s team – everything we’ve been reading, listening to, scrolling and watching each week.

Nov 27 •

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The Lead's budget verdict: technocratic tweaks to a broken system

Lifting the two-child benefit cap is welcome, but Rachel Reeves' tax and spend plans fall far short of the financial shake up this country needs

Nov 26 •

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New asylum policies making homeless refugees “targets for the far right”

Labour’s abrupt return to the 28-day move-on period is pushing vulnerable people into rough sleeping and exposing them to fraud and abuse.

Nov 25 •

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Chaminda Jayanetti

The Lead in Conversation: "Kids are in poverty because adults are in poverty"

Former editor of The Big Issue in the north discusses the shameful crisis of child poverty and the regional disparities that are being driven by…

Nov 23 •

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"It's the Hunger Games": SEND children are being failed in mainstream schools

The government has pledged more money to improve special needs education – but desperate families say the whole system needs overhauling.

Nov 22 •

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The Lead Untangles: Is there a simple solution to the homelessness crisis?

Ahead of the Budget, the housing sector is united in calling for Local Housing Allowance rates to be unfrozen – will Reeves listen?

Nov 20 •

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Reform Watch: Racism, racism and more racism

Each week we cast over eyes over what Reform have been up to – from bizarre proclamations to the detail of how their attempts to run councils are going.

Nov 20 •

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