The financial crisis hit. Wages fell sharply and inflation rose as things like the cost of petrol went up. That led to this long period of pay squeeze and that didnt come to an end until september 20 14. And until today wages have stayed above the cost of living but the gap has been closing and today those lines crossed. Individual incomes on average are going down again. Donna spicer is a Teaching Assistant from south east london. She has faced a pay freeze for four years. South east london. She has faced a pay freeze for four yearsli struggle pay freeze for four years. struggle to eat sometimes. I have no social life. There is no money to go out. And it is a choice of heating and eating. So, one winter we were sitting with blankets, hot water bottles, jackets, jumpers. Low unemployment used to mean higher wages as firms chased good workers. I inflation meant workers demanded increased pay rises but people are still concerned about asking for a pay rise while the Public Sector pay fre
Or, to be more precise, america in the company of nicaragua and syria. If President Trump pulls out of the paris climate accord, thats who the us willjoin as the only countries in the world not to have signed the Landmark 2015 agreement. It will signal a withdrawal of American Leadership on perhaps the most critical issue of our time, with enormous implications for the future of the planet, politics and jobs worldwide. So what is the paris accord . Under it, countries committed to capping Global Warming at 2 degrees celcius with an endeavour to limit Temperature Gains even further, to 1. 5 degrees. Rich countries also agreed to provide Climate Finance to help poorer nations switch to renewables. They pledged 100 billion a year by 2020, many countries wanted more. Today, the top ten Greenhouse Gas emitters make up over 70 of total emissions, china overtook america as the worlds biggest emitter in 2007. For more on the announcement, we can speak to Barbara Plett usher will he keep his Ca
is they want to change that to make it clear it refers to biological sex. and the reason they say that this is needed is because they say make it clear that single sex spaces so think things like, you know, domestic abuse refuges or rape crisis centres, or even public toilets it will make it clear that they can be for only biological women and girls, and not for people who are born male even if those people do go through the process, which means they legally change their sex even on their birth certificate. so the conservatives are basically saying there needs to be clarity in this area, because there have been court cases and legal challenges, and a lot of confusion about this. so they were going to rewrite the equality act. now the other parties, labour and the lib dems say, actually you don t need to do that because there s already provision in the law that there can be single sex spaces. you just need to issue a bit more guidance. they accuse the conservatives are just stok
ministers spike recently. when you speak to ministers privately, they are exasperated by those demands, firstly exasperated by those demands, firstly because of the potential cost of firstly because of the potential cost of them, given that the bill is associated cost of them, given that the bill is associated with the big interventions recently, but also because interventions recently, but also because of that sense that it could because of that sense that it could be counter productive, that if they were be counter productive, that if they were to be counter productive, that if they were to help too much, if you like, it would were to help too much, if you like, it would help fuel inflation, rather than dampening down. that is the very definition of one heck of a political very definition of one heck of a political bind. we will get a sense tomorrow political bind. we will get a sense tomorrow from the prime minister and indeed tomorrow from the prime minister and