The Lead newsletters

Unions are the frontline for Labour’s battle against Reform

Plus: When will we start treating carers with respect? The Lead Untangles homeschooling, and the overdue closure of the non-dom tax loophole

Apr 12 •

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As water bills soar, activists fight to keep Britain’s rivers clean

Fed up of a lack of government action, campaigners are taking matters into their own hands against water firms.

Apr 8 •

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Trump tariffs must not be a signal to climb deeper into his pocket

Plus: The Lead Untangles a wealth tax, how Net Zero commitments are getting lost and inside the Common Law Conspiracy

Apr 5 •

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The social housing tenants left traumatised by decades of neglect

Bristol City Council is one of many local authorities with thousands of tenants in mouldy flats and a £2.2bn black hole in housing budgets is expected…

Apr 3 •

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Fuel poverty in Britain has not peaked – and online disinformation is making it worse

It's no April Fool, energy prices are going up today, while the number of people struggling to survive is on the rise.

Apr 1 •

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Labour’s fixation on getting people back to work is short-sighted and misses the bigger picture

Plus: The Spring Statement untangled, our View from the North, and a man who spent 18 years on benefits gives his first-hand perspective on the welfare…

Mar 29 •

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Council tax is broken - it’s time to fix it

As the Spring Statement showed further sweeping cuts, we ask why politicians are afraid to touch the regressive tax as it’s the most vulnerable who pay…

Mar 27 •

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Austerity isn’t pruning; it’s scorched earth.

Plus: Lead Untangles considers the benefit cuts announced + Zoe goes back to school and discovers what life is like for 14-year-old girls right now

Mar 22 •

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The Windrush education scandal: the lesser-known legacy of systemic racism still hurting generations

Plus: Disability benefit cuts + The Lead Untangles Man Utd's new govt-backed stadium + Reform tear themselves apart

Mar 15 •

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A suspended Reform MP, malaise and discontent on the English seaside

Great Yarmouth and other eastern coastal towns went light blue last summer. With Rupert Lowe now suspended, we ask what the future holds....

Mar 13 •

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Fred Garratt-Stanley

The Black refugee wrongly imprisoned for 13 years – now the fight for compensation

Only a handful of those wrongly jailed have received money from the government. As we tell Ahmed’s story, we ask why and what will be done? Reporting by…

Mar 11 •

The Lead Editors

The far-right poses its biggest political threat since World War II. The government must act.

Plus: The Lead Untangles the leasehold reforms + the view from Kyiv on Farage + BP pulls plug on huge green jobs scheme in Teesside

Mar 8 •

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