Radical Roundup: 10 stories that have got buried – Week 1, May 2022
The news you didn’t seek this week…
Left Foot Forward
Baroness Jones: Why the Green Party poses a threat to the Tories in their rural heartlands
‘This isn’t just a dip caused by Boris Johnson’s lies and PartyGate, it’s an indicator of a more serious problem facing the Conservatives as they lose the support of rural communities.’
The Nationality and Borders Bill has passed, what now?
Analysis from the Refugee Council predicts more than 19,000 people a year fleeing war, conflict, and bloodshed could face years in UK prisons for attempting to find safety.
Boris Johnson pictured campaigning with Tory councillor linked to ‘furlough fraud’
In March, North Tyneside Conservatives were accused of abusing the furlough scheme
Boris Johnson embarrasses himself in car crash interview discussing cost of living crisis
Asked if he was honest, Johnson said he does his ‘best to represent faithfully and accurately what I believe.’
GB News presenter makes false claim about booster vaccine deaths
‘He is wrong to claim the booster “increases your chances of hospitalisation and death”.
As the cost of living crisis bites, we must call time on the vandalism of Tory austerity
It’s a shocking tragedy that in one of the richest countries in the world, nearly one in ten parents say they’re very likely to need to use a food bank in the coming months.
Local Elections 2022: What can we expect?
Labour will need to take next week’s results in their stride. Yet there are trends to watch.
‘Arrogant and offensive’: Rees-Mogg slammed for threatening to sell civil servants’ offices
“Can’t remember a time when Whitehall morale was lower.”
Revealed: Name of Tory MP alleged to have watched porn in parliament
A Conservative MP has had the whip suspended following allegations he watched porn in the House of Commons