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CLAIMANTS and jobcentre staff must come together to defeat the Tories’ attempts to dismantle the welfare state, an actor in Ken Loach’s I, Daniel Blake said yesterday.
Kate Rutter plays a benefit clerk reprimanded for trying to help the title character navigate red tape in the film — which won the top prize at Cannes on Sunday night.
Exclusively interviewed at Equity conference, the actor said the response to the film was a “message of hope” in “very dangerous times.”
Labour will find increases in the state pension age are unacceptable, just as cuts to the Winter Fuel Allowance, personal independence payments and universal credit are — it needs to change direction immediately, writes PCS general secretary FRAN HEATHCOTE
PAUL W FLEMING is unequivocal that Labour’s unpreparedness and resulting ambiguity on copyright in the creative industries has to be reined in with policies that will reverse the growing abuse by Big Tech AI
In the current climate, it is vital to bust the myths and put forward the case for a humane and decent social security system that supports people, argues FRAN HEATHCOTE