Voices on the Left: 5 blogs from the left you need to read this week
A roundup of progressive news
Basit Mahmood
Met Police won’t investigate Downing Street despite photographic evidence of Boris Johnson hosting Christmas quiz ‘in breach of Covid laws’
The Met says it’s statement from last week still stands. ie there is insufficient evidence to investigate
Half of UK families are £110 worse off a year since the 2019 General Election
300,000 more families are living in poverty now than in 2019, highlighting once more how Tory claims of ‘levelling up’ are just rhetoric.
Sun’s deputy editor James Slack accused of attending Downing Street Christmas Party
‘Wonder why the Sun and its deputy editor decided to bury the Lockdown Breaking Party story?’
Majority of voters want Boris Johnson to quit, opinion polls show
Redfield and Wilton Strategies found that 63 percent of Britons think Johnson should resign as prime minister,
Radical Roundup: 10 stories that have got buried – Week 2, December 2021
The news you didn’t see this week…
Labour MPs denounce the Nationality and Borders Bill as anti-refugee and propose reforms to welcome refugees to the UK
The statement demonstrates in clear language, for the first time, that members of the Parliamentary Labour Party not only oppose the Bill, but reject its anti-refugee sentiment
Boris Johnson humiliated at PMQs as he continues to insist ‘there was no party’
‘They knew there was a party, they knew it was against the rules, they knew they couldn’t admit it and they thought it was funny.’
The Sun is ridiculed for its front page and muted coverage of Downing Street Christmas Party
‘I wonder why the latest fiasco isn’t all over the front page today’
Ministers refuse to go on radio and TV after government caught ‘lying about Christmas party’
Health secretary Sajid Javid was forced to cancel interviews this morning and not a single government minister came out to bat for Downing Street after the leaking of the footage