5 Reform UK disasters this week
This week has seen Nigel Farage defend a Nazi salute and a homophobic joke, and U-turn on another policy pledge
Senior Reform UK figures panicking Trump links could cause them electoral damage
Panic has set in among Reform’s senior figures
The House of Lords is increasingly illegitimate
Removing hereditary peers won’t go far enough to give the Lords legitimacy
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The Labour government has made a policy error in denying Winter Fuel Payments
Nearly 2.2m pensioners live in poverty.
Green Party co-leader promises to hold Labour to account on Gaza, benefits and climate
Adrian Ramsay used his party conference speech to say he wanted to “raise up the voices of everyone across the country who wants a fairer, greener future”
EXCLUSIVE: Left wing network to launch at Green Party Conference
Greens Organise wants to ‘build the left within the party, and the party within the left’
Disabled children’s charity hands 43% of grants to rightwing think-tanks
Over the last five years, the Street Foundation is found to have given rightwing pressure groups £749,000 – more than 40% of the money it handed out during this period
GB News paid Nigel Farage £81,607 for just 32 hours of work
That works out to more than £2,500 an hour for Parliament’s highest earning MP.
Government is appointing Covid Corruption Commissioner to go after dodgy contracts awarded by Tories
Anti-corruption group Transparency International has previously revealed that the UK government’s fast-tracking of suppliers recommended by officials and politicians may have led to “systematic and partisan bias” in the awarding of contracts for personal protective equipment (PPE) during the pandemic.
Wife of former Putin Minister gave £70,000 to Priti Patel’s leadership campaign… only to see her knocked out in the first round
Patel’s register of interests shows that Lubov Chernukhin made the donation on the 12th August which was accepted on the 13th August.
Hereditary peers to be kicked out of the House of Lords within months
Labour has also promised to introduce a retirement age of 80 for members of the Lords but that will happen later, after a consultation.
Keir Starmer says government will block all companies implicated in Grenfell Tower ‘horrific failings’ from getting government contracts
The report was scathing about those who made and sold panels and insulation products, which it accused of ‘systemic dishonesty’.
Why Democratic voter participation from Americans overseas is more important than ever
This election has become the mega-Zoom election.