Radical Roundup: 10 stories that have got buried – Week 4, October 2022
The news you didn’t see this week…
Basit Mahmood
Rishi Sunak grilled at PMQs for boasting about withdrawing funding from deprived urban areas
“Rather than apologise or pretend he meant something else, why doesn’t he do the right thing and undo the changes he made to those funding formula?”
Rishi Sunak slammed for staggering hypocrisy after reappointing Suella Braverman Home Secretary
“At noon Rishi Sunak promised “integrity, professionalism & accountability. At 5pm he made Suella Braverman Home Secretary”
Jacob Rees-Mogg resigns from government and people are glad to see the back of him
“We can only hope he takes his green light for fracking and for trashing hundreds of pieces of EU legislation with him.”
Tens of thousands of Tory members set to leave the party after being denied vote in leadership
“The Conservative Party is going to lose tens of thousands of members as a result of what has happened today, and for those that remain it will make them less likely to want to go out and knock on doors at the next election.”
Only 4 in 10 say they are pleased Sunak is the next PM, with more than half wanting a general election now
Most of the public aren’t feeling so hopeful after Rishi Sunak’s coronation as Tory leader, with only four in ten saying that they are pleased he has become Prime Minister. A snap YouGov poll after the announcement that Sunak hadtest
Rishi Sunak becomes Prime Minister
Momentum had been with Sunak after he won the support of over half of the parliamentary party.
Tory donor says the party is not fit to run the country
“I think its got to move on from fighting its own internal wars and focus on what needs to be done on the economy and admitting some of the mistakes they’ve made in the last six years”
EXCLUSIVE: More than 7 in 10 voters say government is not doing enough to help with the cost of living crisis, poll finds
77% of voters believe that the government is not doing enough, compared to just 17% who think that the government is doing enough.
Nadine Dorries says ‘all hell will break loose’ if Rishi Sunak becomes PM
“He’s got no mandate from the people,” the former Culture Secretary said