Home Office tries to remove video of Holocaust survivor confronting Suella Braverman
“The Home Office has demanded we remove the footage”
Basit Mahmood
Human Rights Watch says UK risks being listed as a ‘human rights abuser’
HRW have called it the most ‘significant assault on human rights protections in the UK in decades’.
A damning chart showing how far public sector wages have lagged behind the private sector
ONS data shows that private sector pay grew 6.9% between August and October 2022 while public sector pay grew 2.7%
PCS announces one-day strike of 100,000 civil servants
‘We warned the government our dispute would escalate if they did not listen’
HMRC failed to collect £42bn in UK tax last year, MPs say
“The eye-watering £42bn now owed to HMRC in unpaid taxes would have filled a lot of this year’s infamous public spending black hole”
Mick Lynch makes Tory MP look utterly clueless during questions at Select Committee
“What about the days when we’re not on strike, when it’s absolutely useless as well?”.
‘They’ve gone from clapping the nurses to sacking the nurses’, Sunak roasted at PMQs by Keir Starmer
“The simple truth is you can’t legislate your way out of 13 years of failure.”
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Angela Rayner eviscerates Tory anti-strike bill in the House of Commons
“How he goes on with one breath thanking nurses to sacking nurses”
Grant Shapps photoshops Boris Johnson out of his picture
“If only we could do the same with the past decade of British politics.”