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Rachel Reeves is under pressure to drop Labour’s blanket opposition to higher taxes on wealth, amid growing alarm within the party over extreme levels of inequality and the battered state of Britain’s public finances. After a conference in Liverpool designed to showcase party unity and economic credibility, trade union leaders and senior figures on the shadow chancellor’s left said they would keep “banging the drum” for a Labour government to raise billions of pounds more in tax from the very richest. – Guardian

Research from Material Focus warned that ‘fast tech’ was becoming as big an issue as fast fashion.

The UK threw away nearly half a billion cheap electrical items such as headphones, cables, decorative lights and mini fans in the last year, research has shown.

Nearly half a billion small electricals such as cables, lights, mini fans and disposable vapes, were thrown away last year, research from Material Focus has shown. The average home also has thirty unused electrical items gathering dust, the research shows. The not-for-profit group Material Focus commissioned a survey of 2000 people from Opinium Research.

You see them in the local off licence. You see them in Tesco. You see them littering the gutters of London’s streets. Candy-flavoured, colourful vapes have...