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Basit Mahmood

Parliament
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Tory MPs rake in £15.2 million from second jobs while telling striking workers to show pay restraint

Basit Mahmood
9 January, 2023

Boris Johnson has received more than £1 million since October, by giving just four speeches, at a rate of more than £30,000 an hour.

Mick Lynch
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Mick Lynch interview: RMT willing to work with Labour Party and progressives to resist anti-strike laws

Basit Mahmood
6 January, 2023

“It’s an outrageous attack on our civil liberties and on democracy in our country. The trade unions are the bastion of democracy and the bastion of rights and the ability for people to organise independently”

Nadine Dorries
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Nadine Dorries savages Rishi Sunak and accuses him of flushing Tories’ policies down the drain

Basit Mahmood
5 January, 2023

“Poor Nadine Dorries was so desperate to destroy Channel Four … yet it’s not only saved but enhanced”.

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Friends of the Earth takes legal action against government over new coalmine in Cumbria

Basit Mahmood
5 January, 2023

“The steel industry is under no illusion that it must decarbonise if we’re to meet our climate goals”

Starmer
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Keir Starmer pledges to repeal any anti-strike laws brought forward by the government

Basit Mahmood
5 January, 2023

“If it’s futher restrictions then we will repeal it”

Rishi Sunak at the House of Commons despatch box at PMQs
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Government launches new attack on right to strike

Basit Mahmood
5 January, 2023

“This legislation will remove the legal immunity for strikes where unions fail to implement a minimum level of service. The strikes will be illegal.”

Nadine Dorries
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Huge blow for Nadine Dorries as Culture Secretary recommends ‘dropping Channel 4 privatisation’

Basit Mahmood
4 January, 2023

Looks like the government wasted millions of pounds attacking a broadcaster for no reason whatsoever.

London Ambulance
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A damning chart which shows just why the NHS is in crisis

Basit Mahmood
4 January, 2023

A number of trusts have announced critical incidents in recent days

Paul Nowak
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TUC’s Paul Nowak takes apart government’s false claims about unions and public sector strikes

Basit Mahmood
4 January, 2023

‘The average nurse is £4,000 a year worse off than If their pay would’ve risen by the rate of inflation since 2008.’

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UK faces deepest and longest recession in G7, say economists, with ‘Brexit and incompetence of ministers’ blamed

Basit Mahmood
3 January, 2023

‘The UK was in a ‘structural hole, not a cyclical downturn’

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