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Four of the worst recent right-wing ‘polls’ and why they’re so misleading

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
Today

The polls that regularly appear on the pages of the right-wing press, frequently rely on loaded questions, selective statistics and audiences already primed to agree with the publication’s editorial position.

From lockdown to legitimacy: how pandemic fringe politics pushed populism into the mainstream

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
Today

The longer-term political consequences of the pandemic’s spread of fringe beliefs are visible in the evolution of Reform UK. Its anti-lockdown positioning provided Nigel Farage with a means to reconnect with disaffected voters and reassert his political relevance, much as he had done, with notable success, during the Brexit campaign.

Right-Wing Watch

Thousands sign petition calling for UK to join the European single market

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
Today

“It would make it easier for British companies to trade, collaborate and hire, and it would help restore the confidence international investors once had in the UK as a gateway to Europe.”

Brexit anniversary

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This afternoon MPs are debating the Passenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) Bill – which will see private rail franchises taken into public ownership as they expire.

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29 July, 2024

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Brexit and EU

Another Brexit failure: £2M Brexit border control post has carried out just two checks

Basit Mahmood
29 July, 2024

A ‘very attractive, big facility with two or three people rattling around doing some paperwork.’

Doctors strike over pay NHS
News

Junior doctors in England offered 22.3% pay deal

Hannah Davenport
29 July, 2024

Breakthrough pay offer will be put to BMA members for a vote

Parliament

The case for totally banning MPs from second jobs

Prem Sikka
29 July, 2024

People can see that corporations and the wealthy elites fund major political parties and many individual legislators to advance their economic interests.

Just stop oil
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Over 90 campaign groups call on Government to reverse the Tory crackdown on peaceful protest

Hannah Davenport
29 July, 2024

‘The current government now faces a clear choice between allowing its dire consequences to play out under its watch, or do something to prevent it’

Tory leadership race
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Hannah Davenport
29 July, 2024

Which Tory MP is currently being tipped to win the Conservative leadership race?

Suella Braverman speaking at National Conservatism Conference

Suella Braverman brutally mocked after pulling out of Tory leadership race

Basit Mahmood
29 July, 2024

“Breaking news: nobody likes Suella Braverman. Not even the bloody Tories”.

News

‘Running on Empty’: UK arts spending among lowest in Europe, new report finds

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
28 July, 2024

The report warns that the reduction in funding has led to a significant decline in the number of students enrolling in arts education and a broader ‘marginalisation’ of the arts in state-funded schools.

Child poverty
News

New research reveals devastating impact of the two-child benefit cap

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
28 July, 2024

The study found that 23 percent of families with three children and 26 percent of families with four or more children experienced food insecurity in June, compared to 17 percent of households with one or two children and 12 percent of households without children.

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