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Basit Mahmood

Liz Truss
News

Liz Truss slammed for ‘declaring war on trade unions and working people’ with ‘madcap proposals’

Basit Mahmood
26 July, 2022

“This manifesto is nothing but a charter of discontent. The rights of working people have been put on the chopping block by an ambitious politician, hawking for the votes of a tiny minority.”

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News

Trades Union Congress calls for public ownership of energy companies

Basit Mahmood
26 July, 2022

The TUC is proposing a reshaping of the UK’s energy system, to be more in line with our European neighbours that are finding it easier to weather the current crisis.

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Opinion

What Rishi Sunak’s defence of his private school education reveals about the myth of meritocracy

Basit Mahmood
26 July, 2022

Hard work and merit don’t operate in a vacuum, as Sunak would like us to believe.

Boris Johnson

Boris Johnson ‘doesn’t want to resign’ and ‘wishes he could carry on’ as PM, says Tory peer

Basit Mahmood
26 July, 2022

“Boris thanked me for my ‘Boris on the ballot’ campaign. He said he was enjoying following it and he wished me well.”

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Voices on the Left: 5 blogs from the left you need to read this week

Basit Mahmood
25 July, 2022

A roundup of progressive news…

liz Truss

Liz Truss wins support of economist who advised Thatcher and who got it spectacularly wrong on Brexit

Basit Mahmood
25 July, 2022

Minford claimed that leaving the EU without a trade deal would have boosted the UK’s GDP by 4%

Nadine Dorries

Nadine Dorries mocks Rishi Sunak for wearing a £3,500 suit and £490 Prada shoes

Basit Mahmood
25 July, 2022

“Rishi visits Teeside in Prada shoes worth £450 and sported £3,500 bespoke suit as he prepared for crunch leadership vote.”

Class
Opinion

Isn’t it time for further legislation to tackle social class inequality and classism?

Basit Mahmood
22 July, 2022

According to the Social Mobility Commission, even when those from working-class backgrounds have the same education attainment, role and experience as their more privileged colleagues, those from poorer backgrounds are still paid an average of £2,242 (7%) less.

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Channel 4 proves another Nadine Dorries claim to be untrue

Basit Mahmood
22 July, 2022

After rigorously investigating the claims, Channel 4 says it had found no evidence to back up what Dorries said.

Radical Roundup

Radical Roundup: 10 stories that have got buried – Week 3, July 2022

Basit Mahmood
21 July, 2022

The news you didn’t see this week…

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