Tories struggling to find candidates for local elections over fears of ‘hammering’
“The doorsteps won’t be fun.”
Basit Mahmood
Liz Truss brutally mocked after blaming downfall on ‘left-wing economic establishment’
“You were brought down because in a matter of weeks you lost the confidence of the financial markets, the electorate and your own MPs”
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Liz Truss is ‘plotting a comeback’
Truss reportedly wants to ‘position herself as someone who was not understood at the time – an intellectual visionary.’
RMT wins free travel for 5,800 cleaners on London’s transport system
London Mayor Sadiq Khan announced he will extend staff free travel to all sub-contracted cleaners
Shell announces record annual profits of £32.2bn, its highest in 115 years
“Not everyone is suffering from a cost of living crisis.”
Mick Lynch says ‘the working class are back’ in rousing picket line speech
“We are here, we are demanding change, we refuse to be poor, and we are going to win for our people on our terms.”
Rishi Sunak roasted by Keir Starmer at PMQs over Tory sleaze and scandals
“Did his now former chair tell government officials that he was under investigation by the taxman before or after the Prime Minister appointed him?”
5 reasons why we must oppose the government’s anti-strike laws
We must oppose the attack on the right to strike.
Two more Tory bosses caught up in tax dodging row
“From the party chair sacked over his tax affairs to the party treasurer who took part in a tax avoidance scheme, Sunak is drowning in a swamp of sleaze.”