Brexit cuts British food exports to the EU by nearly £3bn per year
Exports to the EU have fallen by an average of 16% per year in the last three years
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Britons favour proportional representation over First Past the Post, poll finds
It comes after MPs narrowly voted in favour of reforming the voter system, in what was a symbolic vote, unlikely to become law, earlier this week.
Tory prison expansion plan to cost £4bn more than planned, damning NAO report finds
The NAO has described the plan as “unrealistic and not prioritised”.
Kemi Badenoch humiliated at PMQs as Keir Starmer reminds her that ‘two of her predecessors had convictions for breaking the COVID rules’
‘Mr Speaker I gently remind her that two of her predecessors had convictions for breaking Covid rules.’
Revealed: The first rail services to be brought back into public ownership
“John Major’s decision to privatise British Rail in 1994 was foolish, ideologically-driven, and doomed to fail.”
MPs support proportional representation system for UK elections in symbolic vote
t comes after MPs from across the political divide came together last month to issue a cross-party call for Britain’s First Past the Post voting system to be scrapped.
MPs make fresh calls for criminal proceedings in debate on Grenfell phase 2 report
“Justice will only truly be served when there are criminal prosecutions and those responsible pay the price.”
Rachel Reeves appoints counter-fraud commissioner to probe dodgy covid contracts awarded under Tories
Tom Hayhoe has landed the covid counter-fraud job, with an initial focus on reviewing PPE contracts
Users flee from Elon Musk’s X: 60,000 people deactivated their X accounts on average each day in one week alone
The exodus continues…
Over three-quarters of UK universities exclude investments in fossil fuel companies
‘115 (out of 149) UK universities have now publicly committed to divest from fossil fuels, representing 77% of the UK Higher Education sector’