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...change of course in the rationalisation of their UK operations. The decision by the Plessey workers to occupy was fundamentally influenced by local developments. A month after closure was announced, the workers at the local auto plant (now British Leyland) launched an occupation to oppose rationalisation. Jim Swan, convenor of the Joint Shop Stewards Committee at Leyland,...

...changing how housing benefit is calculated by capping it at LHA rates will contribute to further pressure being put on existing, insufficient stock and tenants. This will, in turn, lead to further inequality throughout the UK.[The Conversation] Health Karen Bloor, professor of health economics and policy, University of York This year’s NHS funding settlement was more...

...changes resulted in growing gross domestic product (or GDP) which is the total value created within the economy. Figure 2c shows China’s GDP was quite flat from 1960 to around 1990 but then started to rise dramatically. Alongside this growth, from the early 1990s the incidence of poverty hugely declined, which suggests that much of this economic growth spread throughout...