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Basit Mahmood

Right to strike

EXCLUSIVE: Majority of voters say government has not done enough to prevent strikes, poll finds

Basit Mahmood
25 January, 2023 (1 week ago)

80% of Labour Party voters say that the government has not done enough to prevent strikes, as do 57% of Conservative Party voters

Liz Truss

Liz Truss turns to the US in a bid to rehabilitate her political career

Basit Mahmood
23 January, 2023 (2 weeks ago)

Truss is expected to be making more trips to the US in the near future.

Sajid Javid comes under fire by GPs

Sajid Javid wants people to pay £66 for A&E visits and £20 per GP visit

Basit Mahmood
23 January, 2023 (2 weeks ago)

‘Just a former health secretary openly calling for £20 charges per GP visit & £66 per trip to A&E.’

All you need to know about the latest Tory sleaze scandals involving Nadhim Zahawi and Boris Johnson

Basit Mahmood
23 January, 2023 (2 weeks ago)

Rishi Sunak promised to govern with integrity and professionalism.

Daily Mirror front page

Daily Mirror’s front page savages Tories over latest sleaze scandals

Basit Mahmood
23 January, 2023 (2 weeks ago)

“What a headline to sum up three days of scandal”

Rishi Sunak gives his own constituency £19,000,000 of levelling up funding

Basit Mahmood
20 January, 2023 (2 weeks ago)

Documents show the £19m will be used “to transform Catterick Garrison town centre” in his own constituency

Sunak PMQS

Tory levelling up fund slammed as ‘completely corrupt’

Basit Mahmood
20 January, 2023 (2 weeks ago)

‘Can we have a debate in government time on corruption in the operation of slush funds in this country’

IEA

Institute of Economic Affairs argues against pay rises for workers while ‘one of its own directors gets 28% increase’

Basit Mahmood
19 January, 2023 (2 weeks ago)

If only some of our hard-pressed public sector workers were given such a pay rise.

Huw Merriman

Tory minister admits resolving rail disputes would have been cheaper than strikes

Basit Mahmood
19 January, 2023 (2 weeks ago)

“It’s actually ended up costing more than would have been the case if it was just settled in that part.”

Starmer

PMQs: Keir Starmer absolutely wipes the floor with Rishi Sunak over NHS crisis

Basit Mahmood
18 January, 2023 (2 weeks ago)

“So for one week, will he stop blaming others, take some responsibility and just admit under his watch, the NHS is in crisis, isn’t it?”

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