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Look Left is the blog of Oxford University Labour Club. It aims to provide a platform for discussion, debate and opinion within the club and amongst progressives throughout the university, through a wealth of interviews, opinion pieces and articles.

Today’s unemployment figures show that it is time for ‘Plan B’

Today’s unemployment figures show that it is time for ‘Plan B’

There was further bad news for Osborne today as unemployment increased by 38,000 between April and June, putting the total of unemployed at 2.49 million or 7.9%. It’s just another example of Britain’s sluggish economic recovery under the Coalition government, with the last growth figures as low as 0.2%, as compared to growth in Q3 [...]


Plans for “independent” abortion counselling are anti-women’s welfare. They mustn’t become reality.

Plans for “independent” abortion counselling are anti-women’s welfare. They mustn't become reality.

Frank Field MP and Nadine Dorries MP are trying to slip changes to the way women access abortion into the Health and Social Care Bill. They must not be successful. At the time of writing, Labour MP Frank Fields is working with Tory MP Nadine Dorries[1]  to push through harmless-looking but poisonous changes to the [...]


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