The political right is ramping up efforts to demonise trade unions, peddling dishonest and hysterical campaigns, propped up by their billionaire-owned media and the out-of-touch Etonian commentators who spout such drivel with supposed integrity.
From voter suppression to abortion rights, we take a look at some of the craziest and dangerous ideas from the American right that are gaining worrying traction in Britain.
As turmoil within the Tory party festers, at the helm of the infighting is Brexit.
Liz Truss might have been cast to political oblivion, but she was the breed of prime minister the Tory right had long yearned for, and her spectacular downfall has not allayed the thirst for true-blue tax cuts.
The shocking stories about people’s experience of Britain who are fleeing poverty and persecution, and the political hysteria to ‘gain control’ of the situation, have not been created by too many refugees coming here. Rather, they are the result of Tory government asylum system failings.
The government might be facing ‘difficult decisions’, but they’re not nearly as intimidating as those that many households are experiencing daily – like being forced to choose between heating and eating.
From the BBC to the NHS, the right has been gnawing away at well-liked British institutions, waging ‘politicised’ campaigns designed to influence direction. And the National Trust, with millions of members, is firmly in their sights.
Sunak might be seen to have more political nous than his two disgraced predecessors, but he’s an ideologically right-wing Tory from the right of the party. The fact that he’s presented as a pragmatic centrist shows how far to the right the party has swung.
In many ways, the Tories’ downfall is not startling at all. Not just because Truss and her predecessor were incompetents, but because the party’s implosion has been brewing for decades, and their problems have much deeper causes.
Labour has demanded to know what access Julio Herrera Velutini was given to the prime minister
