Reform UK candidate says women should stay at home and look after the kids instead of going to work
So much for Farage’s ‘beefed up’ vetting of candidates, clearly people with disgraceful and bigoted views are still being let through.
Green MP calls on Keir Starmer to resign over Peter Mandelson scandal in fiery PMQs speech
‘Does the prime minister not recognise that the best thing he can do to restore trust […] is to take true responsibility and resign?’
Farage told to act over Reform local election candidates with racist, sexist and homophobic views
Reform continues to allow candidates with “grotesque” views to stand for the party
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The Sun ripped off Charlie Gard parents Mail interview and said it was ‘exclusive’
The Gard family are complaining to the press regulator IPSO over the newspaper’s actions following their son’s death.
Half of maternity wards had to shut last year due to “shameful” lack of staff or beds
One hospital said it had to turn away expectant mothers 30 times in 2016 because of “insufficient midwifery staffing for workload”
The UK is paying EU half of what Brexit campaigners claimed
Britain’s contribution to the EU is less than half the £350 million figure used by the Vote Leave campaign.
Huge anti-Brexit protest being planned outside Tory conference
Organisers say the demonstration will kick off an ‘Autumn of Discontent’ over Brexit and will attract hundreds of thousands.
As climate warnings become more dire, we need vision and drastic action
Politicians need to present a grand offer to the public on climate change, only then will it be possible to win support for the measures needed to avert calamity.
16 protesters who blocked fracking in Lancashire face court today
A further 80 people await trial for disrupting Cuadrilla’s fracking operations at Preston New Road.
The government is being pummelled in the courts, and it’s brilliant to watch
They’ve lost three high-profile cases in the High Court, Supreme Court and Court of Appeal in the last fortnight alone.
Pressure is mounting on Labour to stand candidates in Northern Ireland elections
One party member went on hunger strike to demand Labour ditch their pact with the SDLP and stand themselves.
Britain’s 11 million renters are crying out for an end to the housing crisis
A recent book on the scandal that is our private rented sector raises some big questions after the Grenfell disaster.
The government are fighting tooth and nail to push single parents into poverty
After losing a High Court ruling in June, the government are now going to the very top – the Supreme Court – to defend a vindictive policy.