PMQs: Caroline Lucas steals the show blasting Tories’ ‘poisonous narrative’ on asylum seekers
The Green MP asked why the PM has not made a Sudanese family visa scheme.
Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
Government’s fast-tracking of new anti-protest laws days before coronation fuels anger and dismay
The Home Office claims the timing of the new powers is coincidental.
‘Wokefest’ gets underway to promote diversity in Swansea and to counter Katie Hopkins’ shows
‘We hope to reclaim the word ‘woke’ to its rightful place as something to be proud of.’
Starmer accuses Tories of attempting to stoke row over Sue Gray hiring ahead of local elections
The Labour leader has said ministers are ‘trying to resurrect’ the fallout over the appointing of Gray as they don’t have anything to say about the cost of living crisis.
Three misleading Tory claims about voter fraud and voter ID
In their handling and defending of the controversial new policy, the Tories have made some pretty dubious claims.
Mick Lynch warns against ‘ultra right’ stoking divisions in May Day rally
The comments were made the same week that train unions announced further rail strikes.
Wage stagnation: Workers suffer from £400 hit to monthly pay packets
Rachel Reeves has said that ordinary families are paying the price for 13 years of low growth and high taxes under the Tory government.
Blame it on the Blob: How civil servants are bearing the brunt of Tory government failings
It seems Raab’s departure and his searing attack on the civil service, could be used by the Tories to rig the system by weeding out the liberals, demonise them for their own failings, and appoint ‘their own,’ as a means of driving policies forward to deliver on their own political objectives.
Thousands sign petition calling for voter ID U-turn
‘One voter turned away is too many’
Andrew Bridgen expelled by Tories after comments about Covid vaccines
Following the recommendation of a disciplinary panel, the Conservative Party has confirmed that the MP was expelled earlier this month.