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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Banned far-right terror group National Action is still recruiting and training members
They have a new leader and are operating out of a warehouse in Warrington, Cheshire, says campaign group Hope Not Hate.
British Gas’s 12.5 per cent electricity hike will force more into fuel poverty
The number of people in fuel poverty grew from 3.5m to 4m from 2015 to 2016 alone. We need a national response on this unseen issue.
Nursing bursaries are being scrapped today but might a Tory backlash may be around the corner?
A Times op-ed called the move a ‘toxic political mix… driven more by ideology than logic’ and called for the policy to be scrapped.
Network Rail is flogging itself off to private firms – we can’t let it happen
Their reforms will take us back twenty years to the disastrous Railtrack era where dodgy contractors put profit before safety, leading to several major rail crashes.
One in five MPs still employ a relative despite ban on practice for new members
The pay of MPs’ family members is on average £5,600 higher than other staff, raising obvious questions about nepotism.
Christian group who blocked Trident missile facility win court victory
‘Put Down the Sword’, a Christian direct-action group, argued in court that their protest drew from Romans 3:8: “You cannot do evil that good may come”.
‘Look at our track record’: 5 ways the Tories are damaging mental health services
The health secretary’s ‘21,000 new NHS posts’ promise rings empty when you look at the overall state of staffing and funding in the NHS.
Anti-semitic Sunday Times column raises institutional questions
How did Kevin Myers’ comments get past editors and sub-editors and why was he, a well-known bigot, writing for them in the first place?
Sun claims Labour is run by ‘toffs’ – yet half of Tory MPs are privately educated
The billionaire-owned S*n has some nerve to try and suggest Labour are run by an ‘elite’.
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