Tory hypocrisy: Number 10 planning to tear up restrictions on City bosses’ pay while urging pay restraint for rest of us
“Everyone counts or nobody counts.”
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Biggest rail strikes in 30 years go ahead as RMT slams government for ‘telling a pack of lies’
‘The rail companies have now proposed pay rates that are massively under the relevant rates of inflation’
Downing Street admits pressuring The Times to drop explosive Carrie Johnson story
Downing Street has admitted that members of the Prime Minister’s team intervened before an explosive story about his wife Carrie Johnson was withdrawn from publication in The Times.
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Accusations of a ‘cover up’ after Times pull damning story about Boris Johnson and Carrie
The piece, written by veteran journalist Simon Walters, claimed that Johnson tried to appoint his now-wife Carrie as his £100,000-a-year chief of staff while he was foreign secretary in 2018
Michael Gove faces backlash over new law ‘re-criminalising’ rough sleeping
“They want to conceal the consequences of their failing economic policies.”
Number of children eligible for free school meals rises to nearly 2 million
Data reveals that over the last three years, the number of children eligible for Free School Meals has increased by a shocking 49%.
UK economy will fall behind all major economies except Russia, OECD warns
The UK will be the worst performing economy of any nation in the developed world apart from Russia in 2023
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Boris Johnson taken to task over failing the NHS
“24 hours in A&E used to be a TV programme,” he said. “Now it’s the Government’s policy”.