Treasury spent £3,000 of taxpayers’ cash on fine art photographs while the rest of us are told to ‘tighten our belts’
Spending on government-issued “credit cards”, also known as Government Procurement Cards, has risen 70% since 2010.
Yearly Archives: 2023
Rishi Sunak’s claim that Just Stop Oil ‘bankrolls the Labour Party’ is proven to be false
Sunak made the claim at PMQs
Labour must use its growth mission to reshape Britain
‘The question of how we raise the funds for our ambitious plans will be absolutely critical to the success of a Starmer government.’
Tory Deputy Chairman Lee Anderson slammed ‘over link to white supremacists’
Anderson is facing further condemnation for his links to Nazi-supporting members of a scooter club.
Daily Mail and Express report fake asylum seeker hotel costs
With a media that doesn’t hold back in printing anti-immigration stories designed to fan the flames of hatred, using the most inflated figures possible to report on asylum and refugee resettlement in the UK, comes as no surprise.
Government refuses to sack Australian trade advisor Tony Abbott for joining climate-sceptic think-tank
‘Talking tough on climate action while filling your Board of Trade with people like Abbott is a dismal signal to the world about Britain’s climate leadership.’
Can the Tories win the next general election?
For a government limping along under the rule of its fifth prime minister in six years, drenched in sleaze and infighting, conventional wisdom says surely the Tories can’t survive the next general election. But then this is politics, and anything can happen.
Report finds Brexit failings are leading cause of small boats crisis
A new academic report identifies Brexit and other UK government failings as the underlying cause of the increase in people making the perilous journey across the English Channel.
Government urged to scrap 20 percent increase in energy bills
Money saving expert Martin Lewis has joined calls urging the government to postpone the planned April 1 hike.
Question Time audience member takes Tories apart over Lee Anderson appointment
“I just find it absolutely astounding, actually, that you are sitting here and even legitimising this promotion.”