Disabled children’s charity hands 43% of grants to rightwing think-tanks
Over the last five years, the Street Foundation is found to have given rightwing pressure groups £749,000 – more than 40% of the money it handed out during this period
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GB News paid Nigel Farage £81,607 for just 32 hours of work
That works out to more than £2,500 an hour for Parliament’s highest earning MP.
Government is appointing Covid Corruption Commissioner to go after dodgy contracts awarded by Tories
Anti-corruption group Transparency International has previously revealed that the UK government’s fast-tracking of suppliers recommended by officials and politicians may have led to “systematic and partisan bias” in the awarding of contracts for personal protective equipment (PPE) during the pandemic.
Wife of former Putin Minister gave £70,000 to Priti Patel’s leadership campaign… only to see her knocked out in the first round
Patel’s register of interests shows that Lubov Chernukhin made the donation on the 12th August which was accepted on the 13th August.
Hereditary peers to be kicked out of the House of Lords within months
Labour has also promised to introduce a retirement age of 80 for members of the Lords but that will happen later, after a consultation.
Keir Starmer says government will block all companies implicated in Grenfell Tower ‘horrific failings’ from getting government contracts
The report was scathing about those who made and sold panels and insulation products, which it accused of ‘systemic dishonesty’.
Grenfell inquiry: 5 key takeaways from report
The report found that ‘decades of failure’ by central government to stop the spread of combustible cladding combined with the “systematic dishonesty” of multimillion-dollar companies whose products spread the fire, had contributed to what happened.
Ed Miliband schools Reform UK’s Richard Tice over green energy
Miliband tore into Tice, saying that Reform’s manifesto was ‘for higher bills and to make people poorer’.
3 in 10 Londoners turned away for not having correct ID didn’t return to vote in General Election
Greenwich and Enfield were the two boroughs with most voters not returning to the polling station after being turned away, with 151 and 127 respectively.
Tributes paid to Labour general secretary David Evans for ‘turning Labour’s electoral fortunes around’ after he announces decision to step down
‘It has been the privilege of my life to be general secretary for the Labour Party.’