Labour faces criticism over potential national insurance hike, likened to Thatcher's poll tax, potentially affecting jobs and wages.

Pensioners from around the country gathered in Trafalgar Square - scene of the infamous poll tax riots in 1990 - for the rally organised by the Is It Fair campaign. The small crowd of protesters ...

Closer home, protests against the hut and poll taxes catalysed the Mau Mau fight for liberation and eventually gave birth to our 50 year old independence. Riots against taxation are a reflection ...

The eight plays in the series, such as Richard II, Henry V and Richard III, tackled many issues of their time which are still relevant now like political sleaze, devolution and poll tax riots.

SIR – In 1990 I led an investigation into the poll tax riots, in which scores of police officers suffered injury – in some ...

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Interview with John Major on Saturday’s poll tax riots in London. Ministers chatting and posing for photographs. Interview with John Major on European Economic Community (EEC) finance ...

In contrast, one cabinet minister told me "if the establishment tried to unpick the result we'd have poll tax riots". How could we possibly predict the passage of the next year's negotiations ...

Although the working-class, Birkenhead born tart-with-a-heart had already appeared on television briefly (on Jonathan Ross' chat show, and the news footage of the 'Poll Tax Riots', if we can ...

During the week of the riots, Londoners openly discussed how ... Black codes became the bedrock of state constitutions. Poll taxes and literacy exams to prevent African Americans from voting ...

Whether it was a poll tax of $20 on each Chinese entering Victoria by ship that was introduced in 1855, anti-Chinese riots in ...

In a fiery debate, Texas Senate candidates Ted Cruz and Colin Allred tackled pressing issues like inflation, democracy, and ...