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Rachel Reeves takes swipe at Liz Truss for helping richest families pay their energy bills as she sets out support for poorest households

Basit Mahmood
Yesterday

Unlike Truss, the Chancellor has said that only the poorest households will get government support if the conflict pushes up gas and electricity charges.

A photo of the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, delivering the government's Spring Statement

Breaking: Reform finally drops mayoral candidate who told David Lammy to ‘go home’

Olivia Barber
Yesterday

Chris Parry has been sacked after making numerous offensive comments on social media

Reform Mayoral Candidate Chris Parry

Reform’s Kent council approves wage increase for councillors

Basit Mahmood
Yesterday

Now it turns out that the party’s council leader has broken another promise when it comes to giving members of the council a pay rise.

Reform Kent County Councillors

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Charities have funnelled almost £28 million into rightwing think tanks, Good Law Project finds

Olivia Barber
20 January, 2025

Thirty-one of the charities have links to people who have donated millions to the Tories

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Liz Truss brutally mocked after posting picture of herself in Washington DC ahead of Trump’s inauguration

Basit Mahmood
20 January, 2025

“Many people thought Liz Truss couldn’t embarrass herself further. But they seriously underestimated her on that front.”

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Corbyn and Palestine Solidarity Campaign criticise Met Police for their handling of Palestine protest

Olivia Barber
20 January, 2025

The PSC has accused the Met Police of “extremely heavy-handed and aggressive policing”

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Suella Braverman and Laurence Fox filmed heading to Trump’s swearing-in

Basit Mahmood
20 January, 2025

Braverman was filmed by Channel 4 News wearing a Make America Great Again hat as she landed in the U.S. ahead of the swearing in ceremony.

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MPs push for extended paid bereavement leave for early pregnancy losses

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
19 January, 2025

‘Desperately needed and long overdue.’

Woke-bashing of the week: ‘Woke’ addicts and Christian name controversies – Toby Young’s latest culture war rants

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
19 January, 2025

Toby Young, founder of the Free Speech Union (FSU) and perennial culture-warrior, is once again stirring the pot.

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Right-wing press spins more Brexit hypocrisy over Spain’s proposed 100% tax on non-EU property purchases  

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
19 January, 2025

‘The Spanish holiday villa dream is over, thanks to Brexit.’

Right-wing media watch – Tory press’s overblown hypocrisy on Reeves’ budget

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
18 January, 2025

The Tories and their supporting press, seem to have forgotten the catastrophic fallout from Liz Truss’s fiscal plans in the autumn of 2022, which sent the gilts market into freefall and catapulted the UK’s pensions industry into chaos.

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Are climate politics about to go into reverse?

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
18 January, 2025

The rise of climate-sceptic populist figures both in the UK and abroad, puts climate action at risk of being side-lined in favour of regressive, anti-environmental politics that could undo years of hard-fought progress.

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Devolution dispute heats up in High Peak over future council structure

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
18 January, 2025

‘Greater Manchester has the fastest growing economy in the UK. When you look at key economic indicators, like travel to work areas, all High Peak points towards the Northwest.’

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