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Alex Firth

@alexwfirth.bsky.social
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Advocacy & Comms at Just Fair / economic, social and cultural rights / build more homes. Work on the UK, based in Mexico City. www.justfair.org.uk

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Just Fair @justfairuk.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
📢 We’re recruiting a new Director at Just Fair. Lead our talented team and help drive our mission to advance economic, social and cultural rights across the UK. ⏰ 28 hours | Home-based | £68–73k pro rata + benefits 📆 Deadline: 5 Oct, 9am ✏️ Apply: www.charityjob.co.uk/jobs/just-fa...
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Director | Just Fair | CharityJob
Apply now for Director. , £68,000 - £73,000 per year (pro rata), find a career with meaning today
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Stop Funding Hate @stopfundinghate.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
GB News go on air every day and make out like climate change isn't happening. Then, when a wildfire breaks out in the UK, they scramble for anything to blame – anything BUT the massive climate elephant in the room 🐘🙈🙈🙈 1/2 #suffolkwildfire
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Just Fair @justfairuk.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Disabled people are being pushed into poverty by policy choices, not personal failings. New findings show many are skipping meals because of disability-related costs. It is time to recognise the right to food in domestic law.
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Food insecurity is widespread, severe and systemic for disabled people, evidence to inquiry concludes
Food insecurity* is a “widespread, severe, and systemic” issue for disabled people, with rising food costs a “significant” challenge, according to evidence submitted to an inquiry just as the gover…
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Refugee Action @refugeeaction.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
MPs warned the Immigration and Asylum Bill is "unsafe and unworkable" and challenged the rise of far-right politics. The answer to the far right isn't to copy its politics. Scrap the bill.
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Turn2us @turn2us.org.uk · 14/07/2026
Excellent to see the All Party Parliamentary Group on Poverty and Inequality report launched yesterday, highlighting evidence from our stigma research and conversations with young people. The report rightly sets out that: Read below - 🧵1/5
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Debbie Moon @debbiemoon.bsky.social · 10/09/2024
By providing people with homes, Burnham said, money can be saved in public service budgets elsewhere. “It actually saves public money to do this,” he said. “It’s not as if we’re just asking for something, and it’s another pressure. The bigger you do housing first, the more you’ll save.”
theguardian.com
Manchester turns to ‘housing first’ scheme to eradicate rough sleeping
Inspired by Finnish success story, mayor Andy Burnham says unconditional homes policy ‘saves public money’
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Just Fair @justfairuk.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
🚑 The anniversary of the NHS was last week. The right to health isn't only about healthcare, it's about the conditions that allow everyone to live healthy lives. It's time to turn the UK's commitments into action.
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Seventy-eight years after the NHS was founded, the right to health remains unfinished business | Just Fair
Seventy-eight years ago today, the National Health Service was founded on a simple but transformative idea: healthcare should be available to everyone, free at the point of use, and based on need. When Nye Bevan, the Health Minister at the time, argued for its creation, he said: “It will lift the shadow from millions of […]
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Just Fair @justfairuk.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Right now, 1 in 153 people in England is experiencing homelessness. The next Prime Minister must make ending homelessness a national priority and recognise housing as a human right in law. Sign the Big Issue’s letter. 👇
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Tell our next PM to end the housing crisis
We need a Prime Minister who puts housing first. Add your name to our letter.
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Alex Firth @alexwfirth.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Seventy-eight years after the NHS was founded, its founding vision remains unfinished. The right to health is about about ensuring everyone can access the care they need, alongside the foundations of good health: decent housing, food and social security. justfair.org.uk/seventy-eigh...
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Seventy-eight years after the NHS was founded, the right to health remains unfinished business | Just Fair
Seventy-eight years ago today, the National Health Service was founded on a simple but transformative idea: healthcare should be available to everyone, free at the point of use, and based on need. Whe...
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Just Fair @justfairuk.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Could you spare 60 seconds to support Just Fair? We could win £5,000 through a draw that supports organisations strengthening communities. To nominate us, please enter our registered name: Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in the UK Thank you 👇 click.benefactgroup.com/click/ggno-7...
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Alex Firth @alexwfirth.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Andy Burnham arriving in Westminster #thethickofit
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Sian Berry MP @sianberry.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Beyond chilling. While the proscription of Palestine Action has been struck down and the verdict in the Government appeal against this has not yet been given, escalating these sentences today clearly risks a serious injustice. novaramedia.com/2026/06/12/p...
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Palestine Action Activists Will Be Sentenced As Terrorists, Court Confirms
The judge found that the activists wanted to end ‘British complicity in Israeli war crimes’. Simon Childs reports from Woolwich crown court.
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Declassified UK @declassifieduk.org · 12/06/2026
🚨BREAKING -- Palestine Action activists will be sentenced as terrorists by John McEvoy & Dania Akkad Historic first sees protesters sentenced under terrorism provisions for criminal damage against Israeli arms firm www.declassifieduk.org/palestine-ac...
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Palestine Action activists will be sentenced as terrorists
Historic first sees protesters sentenced under terrorism provisions for criminal damage against Israeli arms firm
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Alex Firth @alexwfirth.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Vulnerable families including women fleeing abuse are being illegally “dumped” hundreds of miles away by London councils in a practice “ripping at the social fabric” of deprived towns. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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Vulnerable families illegally ‘dumped’ hundreds of miles away by London councils
Exclusive: Practice that includes women fleeing abuse is ‘ripping at social fabric’ of towns in poorest parts of England
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Alex Firth @alexwfirth.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Today marks 50 years since the UK made a commit commitment on housing, food, healthcare, and social security as human rights. 50 years of broken promises. New blog for @justfairuk.bsky.social published by @povertyalliance.org www.povertyalliance.org/guest-blog-i...
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Guest Blog: Poverty is not inevitable - 50 years after ICESCR, the UK must deliver on its promise - The Poverty Alliance
Alex Firth, Advocacy and Communications Officer, Just Fair For decades, organisations across Scotland and the UK, including the Poverty Alliance and many of its members, have highlighted a simple but ...
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Just Fair @justfairuk.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
🚨 Breaking: 76 civil society orgs have written to the UK Gov calling for economic, social & cultural rights to be recognised. 50 years ago today, the UK ratified #ICESCR50 and promised rights including housing, food & health. That promise remains unfulfilled. Read 👇 justfair.org.uk/wp-content/u...
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Just Fair @justfairuk.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
New research shows that one in five of the UK’s “austerity children” have been scarred by poverty. This is why cumulative impact assessments matter. Without them, policies are made in the dark, and harm continues. The UN has called on the UK to act. It’s time to listen.
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More than a fifth of UK’s ‘austerity children’ scarred by poverty, study says
Researchers say hardship is a direct legacy of welfare benefit cuts imposed by Tory governments in recent years
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Martyn @martynpedler.com · 02/05/2026
"The octopus on your plate can feel pain, delay gratification, and probably outthink a toddler. Just something to consider before you order."
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Love Eating Octopus? You Might Want to Read This First
The octopus on your plate can feel pain, delay gratification, and probably outthink a toddler. Just something to consider before you order.
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Alex Firth @alexwfirth.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
The Renters’ Rights Act coming into force matters. More security, limits on arbitrary eviction, a shift in the balance. But it doesn’t end the housing emergency. Rents are still unaffordable and supply still shaped by profit. Rights in law must be matched with genuinely affordable homes.
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Alex Firth @alexwfirth.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Almshouses like these in Harrogate, built in 1868 by George Rogers, weren’t perfect. They were paternalistic, charitable, often conditional. But they were built on a simple premise: housing people mattered more than profiting from them.
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Just Fair @justfairuk.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
"Housing is not a privilege, it is a human right recognised in international law. When that right is not protected, it affects everything: children’s health, education, stability and sense of security.” - @alexwfirth.bsky.social www.bigissue.com/news/housing...
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Record-high numbers of homeless children could fill Wembley twice
A record-high 176,130 kids are growing up homeless in temporary accommodation and they could fill Wembley Stadium two times over.
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Just Fair @justfairuk.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
🚨 New figures released today show another record broken – 176,00 children growing up in temporary accommodation. Behind every number is a child without the stability of a safe home. Housing is a human right. These figures show that right is being denied.
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Alex Firth @alexwfirth.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
🚨 Record high: 176,000 children in temporary accommodation. This is not an accident. It is the result of decades of selling off social housing and relying on the market. Children are paying the price for political choices.
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Alex Firth @alexwfirth.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Does the Green Party support incorporating the right to food into UK law? @zackpolanski.bsky.social @rachelmillward.bsky.social
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Alex Firth @alexwfirth.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Living in temporary accommodation has contributed to the deaths of 104 children in England in the past six years. 76 of them were under the age of one. Temporary accommodation is killing children. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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Temporary accommodation linked to deaths of 104 children in England in six years
Calls for ‘urgent, sustained action’ over rising number of children who do not have permanent home
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Alex Firth @alexwfirth.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
This is very sad news indeed. When I wrote a report on homeless children in temporary accommodation I DM’d Giles @nearlylegal.co.uk with a few questions. In response he asked for my phone number and spent over an hour talking through the complexities of the UK’s housing crisis with me.
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Alex Firth @alexwfirth.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
When councils say breaking the law is the only way to house vulnerable children, the system is beyond strain. These are some of the most vulnerable children in the country, yet they are bearing the costs of housing failure. 2d866107-f4ba-408e-9c7e-8c933d69106b.usrfiles.com/ugd/2d8661_1...
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Just Fair @justfairuk.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
📆 In just one week we will be in Geneva for the Eradicating Poverty Beyond Growth: A Global Roadmap for a New Economy Wednesday 22 April - sign up to watch along here: www.eventbrite.com/e...
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Alex Firth @alexwfirth.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
More than 50 young people who came to the UK to seek asylum have died in the past decade, the majority by suicide. Our system does not support children and young people enough.
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More than 50 young asylum seekers have died in UK since 2015, data shows
Figures gathered from children’s services and health trusts show 31 deaths were suicides, including six in under-18s
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Just Fair @justfairuk.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Today, the two-child limit is scrapped. For years, this policy pushed 109 children into poverty every single day. This shows change is possible. Now we need sustained action to ensure every child can rely on the foundations of rights they need to live well.
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TransActual @transactualuk.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
It’s Trans Day of Visibility today and we’re sending solidarity to all our trans siblings. At TransActual we will continue being visible and advocating for the rights of trans people, as we do all year round. To find out more about our work go to: transactual.org.uk/our-work/ #TDOV #Trans
Image shows three people holding up a trans flag. Text reads: Trans Day of Visibility
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 28/03/2026
Again, the allegation here has to be left unsaid because the moment you spell it out it makes no sense – to affect the result here the claim needs to be that Gorton and Denton was full of Muslim women who wanted to vote Reform, but were coerced by their husbands into voting Green instead.
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Refugee Council @refugeecouncil.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Children are children first. Our new briefing sets out reforms designed to centre and protect children in the wake of the government's new asylum and settlement changes: stable status, safe family reunion, fair age assessment and independent guardianship. www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/stay-informe...
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Briefing: Protecting Children in UK Asylum & Settlement Reform - Refugee Council
This is our February 2026 parliamentary briefing setting out child‑centred reforms.
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Alex Firth @alexwfirth.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
London comes out above every single region in the country for one simple reason: housing. Renting in the capital is so expensive it is actively producing child poverty. Wealth is extracted through rent while families are pushed into hardship. This is a political choice.
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Alex Firth @alexwfirth.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
🚨 New figures show that London has the highest child poverty levels in the country with 38% of children growing up in hardship. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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London has England’s highest levels of child poverty, data shows
About 38% of children in London live in relative poverty, compared with 27% in the UK as a whole
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Alex Firth @alexwfirth.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
A council evicting private renters so it can buy their homes to house homeless families is late-stage housing policy. Displacement used to manage displacement. This is what happens when housing is financialised and social housing is gutted.
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Alex Firth @alexwfirth.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
The far right says migrants are causing the housing crisis. It’s a simple story, and the wrong one. Housing shortages in the UK are political outcomes, not demographic accidents 🧵
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Alex Firth @alexwfirth.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Airbnb is restructuring housing markets. In Cape Town, short-term lets are pushing homes out of reach for residents. When housing is more profitable as a hotel than a home, the right to housing is at risk.
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Alex Firth @alexwfirth.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Community-owned housing could shift who controls land and homes, away from speculation and toward people. But without real scale it risks staying marginal. Transformation over tokenism.
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Alex Firth @alexwfirth.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
🏠 This goes to the heart of the right to housing. Safety, dignity and accessibility are not extras. When evacuation plans are inadequate, it shows whose lives are prioritised and whose are treated as expendable.
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Alex Firth @alexwfirth.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
George Orwell’s The Road to Wigan Pier is a stark account of how housing conditions are used to discipline poverty 🧵
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Alex Firth @alexwfirth.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Pleased to have contributed to this work. Child poverty is not inevitable, it reflects the choices we make about how our systems are designed. It’s time to embed rights into this design.
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Alex Firth @alexwfirth.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
“Workers are scratching their heads asking whose side are Labour on, who do they really represent, because it certainly isn’t workers.” - Unite general secretary, Sharon Graham
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Laura Webster @lauraewebster.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Tomorrow's wrap-around front page of The National. This is the human cost. As the UK Government talks a big game of being ready to join the US and Israel in war, over 150 families are mourning their children. Their little girls were mostly aged 7-12.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Dear Shabana, Let's clear some things up around migration and remember we're talking about people's lives.
Dear Shabana,
I notice today that you referred to me in your speech on immigration at the IPPR think tank.
You said: “A party leader should not be on the beaches of France encouraging people to
make a perilous crossing on small boats.”
I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised especially after the hateful Labour campaign in Gorton
and Denton, but this is just the latest in a string of lies peddled by a discredited Government
who intentionally fan the flames of racism and division.
When I went to Calais, I was not there to encourage people to travel to the UK. I was there
to see at first hand the suffering your Government and successive Governments have done
in demonising migrants in a pathetic bid to pander to the base instincts of Reform and the
flawed strategy of Morgan McSweeney.
As you will know, if you even bothered to research my visit instead of taking Reform talking
points, I was there to witness the brutality of families living in tents in freezing temperatures. I
filled water tanks and picked up litter.
What that visit did do is confirm my belief that if we are to smash the boat gangs and stop
the boats, we need to offer safer and managed routes for migrants to come to this country.
Showing compassion as a politician is not a crime. In fact, we need to see much more of it.
It reminded me of a young MP who in October 2015 spent three days in Lesbos helping
migrants fleeing war-torn Syria. She posted videos on X, talked about handing out water and
croissants to refugees and food parcels.
When she returned to the UK, she wrote a very moving piece in the New Statesman. She
said “we have to work with our European partners and create new, safe, and legal routes for
refugees to get to Europe. We cannot abandon them to their fate, left as prey for smugglers
whilst risking death on the seas.”
She said “maybe we can make ourselves feel better by saying no-one is making them get on
the boats. And again, the Home Secretary is not entirely wrong when …
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Anthony Painter @anthonypainter.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
The Home Secretary makes a case for her reforms in the context of Labour values of contribution, compassion and control. You have to question whether segregation, insecurity, hostility, and separated families really are that reflective of Labour traditions. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Restoring order at the border speaks to Labour values. Without that, we won’t be able to do anything else at all | Shabana Mahmood
Our approach, unlike that of the Greens and Reform, is in step with the British people. They don’t want extremes – they want a system that is managed and fair, says home secretary Shabana Mahmood
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Nathan Phillips @nbphillips1872.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
We all need a home. Take action today to stop newly-granted refugees being made homeless. Gov is deciding on future of 56 day move-on period in the coming weeks. Use @weareyoungroots.bsky.social online tool to email your MP – it only takes a few minutes! action.youngroots.org.uk/make-56-days...
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Email your MP today to stop newly-granted refugees becoming homeless
You need more than 28 days to find a home - help us to get the government to agree to a 56 day move-on period when people are granted refugee status
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Reform’s vow to scrap the Renters Rights Act shows they’re “in the pocket of rogue landlords”, the Housing Secretary has claimed www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
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Reform renters rights opposition shows they're 'in pocket of rogue landlords'
Last week multi-millionaire Deputy Reform leader Richard Tice, announced that a Reform government would tear up Labour legislation to tackle abuse of tenants and employees
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Alex Firth @alexwfirth.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
The sky pool apartments suspended over Wandsworth in south London is marketed as a luxury amenity. It turns housing into spectacle, floating above a city where secure, affordable homes remain out of reach. The question isn’t how exclusive it is, but who the city is being built for.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
The number of UK workers on zero-hours contracts hits record 1.23m. People subjected to insecurity, loss of workers rights. Labour 2024 manifesto promised to ban "exploitative" zero-hours contracts, Employment Rights Act diluted that promise.
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Number of workers on zero-hours contracts hits record high
There has been a 181,000 increase in the number of zero-hours contracts since Labour was elected.
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