Radical Roundup: 10 stories that got buried
Left Foot Forward’s roundup of the progressive news you might have missed this week.
Interview: ‘Fearless’ rival launched to counter Murdoch-backed TV station
“We already have a press that’s very biased and not diverse, and a TV landscape that’s open to someone like Fox coming in,” the Byline TV co-founder tells LFF.
Brexit talks: Boris Johnson is fighting for the right to ‘be more French’
The PM is keen to hand out millions to favoured tech firms. What would Margaret Thatcher say?
Left-wing activists plan national Day of Action against Tories’ handling of the Covid crisis
Organisers insist the protests will be ‘Covid safe’ and kept under review.
The Bank of England Governor just backed up the Left’s furlough calls
Ministers must do everything they can to support jobs, says Andrew Bailey, as the income support scheme comes to an abrupt end.
From Russia with Lubov? Tory party funding questions dodge the front pages
The Conservatives are under fire over alleged Russian interference – but it’s off the agenda today…
7 highlights from Keir Starmer’s Labour Connected speech
The Labour leader was deliberately unsubtle in distancing himself from the Corbyn years
Radical Roundup: 10 stories that got buried
Left Foot Forward’s roundup of the progressive news you might have missed this week.
Health Secretary breached party funding rules over ‘impermissible’ donation
But Hancock avoided a fine over the donation from a Danish investor.
Tories rapped for misleading public over benefits of Japan trade deal
Full Fact says the government has overstated the value of a new ‘£1.5 billion’ UK-Japan trade deal.