BP profits more than double to £23bn leading to calls for tougher windfall tax
“Hard-pressed families will rightly feel furious – they are being treated like cash machines.”
Basit Mahmood
Today is the biggest NHS strike in history
Since 2010, paramedics have seen a real terms pay cut of £6,000, while nurses have seen their pay fall by £5,000
Nigel Farage is demolished by John Bercow over Brexit
“The economy has been hit to the tune of about £100billion a year.”
Tories struggling to find candidates for local elections over fears of ‘hammering’
“The doorsteps won’t be fun.”
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.”