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Basit Mahmood

A placard with text reading "There is no planet B"

Climate denial think-tank suffers blow after it is forced to offload campaigning arm following investigation

Basit Mahmood
1 August, 2024

The GWPF tries to claim that it is a charity, but has regularly been accused of breaching charity commission guidelines by accepting donations from oil and gas interests and also for breaching charity rules on impartiality.

NHS strike

Shocking chart reveals how bad public sector pay got under the Tories

Basit Mahmood
31 July, 2024

While Labour has acted swiftly to help public sector workers who have suffered a fall in real wages, the Tories failed when in office.

Suella Braverman

Suella Braverman handed £16.8k of taxpayers’ money when she was sacked

Basit Mahmood
31 July, 2024

Braverman received £16,876 of taxpayers’ money as part of a “non-taxable exit payment” at the end of last year.

Liz Truss

Liz Truss is brutally mocked after offering up her opinion on Rachel Reeves’ spending plans

Basit Mahmood
30 July, 2024

“As you are a disastrously failed PM with the shortest tenure in history and were turfed out by the electorate at the general election, we shall file your contribution appropriately.”

Eton

Private schools face VAT charge from January 2025, Labour confirms

Basit Mahmood
30 July, 2024

The Treasury confirmed yesterday that it would apply to payments made in advance for school terms starting after January 1 2025, including any payments made on or after Monday.

Northern Railway

Labour begins process of renationalising rail

Basit Mahmood
29 July, 2024

This afternoon MPs are debating the Passenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) Bill – which will see private rail franchises taken into public ownership as they expire.

Brexit and EU

Another Brexit failure: £2M Brexit border control post has carried out just two checks

Basit Mahmood
29 July, 2024

A ‘very attractive, big facility with two or three people rattling around doing some paperwork.’

Suella Braverman speaking at National Conservatism Conference

Suella Braverman brutally mocked after pulling out of Tory leadership race

Basit Mahmood
29 July, 2024

“Breaking news: nobody likes Suella Braverman. Not even the bloody Tories”.

Nigel Farage

Reform candidate booted out by Nigel Farage in Clacton hits MP with £8k bill

Basit Mahmood
26 July, 2024

Tony Mack, who was the Reform representative for the Clacton seat from last October until June, believes he is owed the costs of running his campaign before Farage kicked him out.

ULEZ signs

ULEZ expansion cut pollution ‘more than expected’

Basit Mahmood
26 July, 2024

Now new research has found that the ULEZ extension resulted in a “better than expected” reduction in toxic exhaust emissions from cars and vans.

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