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Basit Mahmood

BBC Question TIme

BBC Question Time: Nurse takes apart the government over NHS strikes

Basit Mahmood
22 September, 2023 (3 days ago)

‘The government needs to get real and address the situation.’

Billionaire media mogul Rupert Murdoch ridiculed for thinking he’s not part of the ‘elite’

Basit Mahmood
22 September, 2023 (3 days ago)

“Rupert Murdoch has been playing this victim game for 70 years.”

Tory candidate

Tory donor gets £137m in hidden government payments

Basit Mahmood
21 September, 2023 (4 days ago)

Frank Hester, the healthcare tech tycoon, who has given a £5m donation to the Conservatives earlier this month,

The Sun

The Sun is brutally mocked after praising Rishi Sunak for scrapping non-existent ‘meat tax’

Basit Mahmood
21 September, 2023 (4 days ago)

‘No10 ‘confirmed the meat tax was never government policy.’

Al Gore

Al Gore blasts Rishi Sunak for net zero U-turn and suggests he’s being captured by fossil fuel companies

Basit Mahmood
21 September, 2023 (4 days ago)

“I find it shocking, really disappointing, I think Rishi Sunak has done the wrong thing.”

Nigel Farage

Nigel Farage banking row: Regulator finds no evidence of bank account closures due to political views

Basit Mahmood
19 September, 2023 (6 days ago)

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) says it has found no evidence showing banks have shut or denied accounts to customers based primarily on their political beliefs.

Liz Truss

Labour Party demands Sunak blocks Liz Truss’s honours list

Basit Mahmood
19 September, 2023 (6 days ago)

‘This means that those who crashed the economy, who left millions to pay more for their mortgage and who undermined our economic institutions could receive an award.’

Children living in poverty

89% of school staff say child poverty in their school has increased in the last two academic years, survey finds

Basit Mahmood
19 September, 2023 (6 days ago)

80% of school staff say providing universal free school meals to all school children would reduce child poverty in their school, according to a survey carried out by the Education Anti-Poverty Coalition.

Voting Ballot Box

8 million people especially private renters and the young are not properly registered to vote, warns Electoral Commission

Basit Mahmood
18 September, 2023 (1 week ago)

The sheer number of people denied a right to vote thanks to an ‘outdated registration system’, would be equivalent in number to more than 100 UK Parliament constituencies.

Jeremy Hunt

Ofcom says GB News broke impartiality rules after chancellor interviewed by Tory MPs

Basit Mahmood
18 September, 2023 (1 week ago)

‘Our investigation therefore concluded that GB News failed to represent and give due weight to an appropriately wide range of significant views’

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