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Reform UK candidate says women should stay at home and look after the kids instead of going to work

Basit Mahmood
Today

So much for Farage’s ‘beefed up’ vetting of candidates, clearly people with disgraceful and bigoted views are still being let through.

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Green MP calls on Keir Starmer to resign over Peter Mandelson scandal in fiery PMQs speech

Olivia Barber
Today

‘Does the prime minister not recognise that the best thing he can do to restore trust […] is to take true responsibility and resign?’

Ellie Chowns calls on Keir Starmer to resign as PM at PMQs

Farage told to act over Reform local election candidates with racist, sexist and homophobic views

Olivia Barber
Today

Reform continues to allow candidates with “grotesque” views to stand for the party

Nigel Farage gets heckled at London local election launch

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Farage

All 6 Tory leadership contenders say they won’t let Nigel Farage join the Conservative party

Basit Mahmood
15 August, 2024

“Look Nigel Farage wants to destroy the Conservative Party.”

Parliament

EXCLUSIVE: Overwhelming majority of voters believe MPs should not have second jobs, poll finds

Basit Mahmood
14 August, 2024

The poll, carried out by Savanta, found that 66% of those surveyed said that MPs should not be allowed to have second jobs, while just 23% said that they should.

Thérèse Coffey

Former Tory deputy PM Therese Coffey applied for job in Labour’s Treasury department

Basit Mahmood
14 August, 2024

It would have been chancellor Rachel Reeves deciding ultimately who would’ve been appointed to the role, which pays £183,400 a year, roughly double the salary of an MP.

Liz Truss

Liz Truss storms off stage after being humiliated by lettuce banner prank

Basit Mahmood
14 August, 2024

“Liz Truss is on a pro-Trump speaking tour. So we dropped a strategically-positioned remote-controlled lettuce banner.”

Office worker

‘Structural racism’ means one in six BME workers are in an insecure job, we desperately need to tackle systemic discrimination

Paul Nowak
13 August, 2024

The massive and disproportionate concentration of BME workers in Britain in low-paid and precarious work is structural racism in action – and yet another damning legacy from 14 years of Conservative rule.  

Donald Trump

If media is so fixated on equivalence, where are the calls for Trump to step aside?

Mark Bergman
13 August, 2024

Almost incomprehensively, for months, while the media and commentators were calling out President Biden’s age, gaffes and gait, and increasingly questioning his mental competence, Donald Trump largely has had a pass.  

house of lords

EXCLUSIVE: Majority of public say hereditary peers in the House of Lords should be abolished, poll finds

Basit Mahmood
13 August, 2024

When it comes to party affiliation, a majority of Conservative Party voters, 54%, supported abolishing hereditary peers, as do 57% of Labour Party voters, 61% of Lib Dem voters and 63% of Green Party voters.

Boris Johnson walking up a set of stairs smiling

Boris Johnson could return to the Telegraph as global editor-in-chief as Nadhim Zahawi plots bid

Basit Mahmood
13 August, 2024

Johnson has longstanding links with the Telegraph, having previously written a column for the paper and having started his journalism career there.

Elon musk

Labour minister launches brutal takedown of Elon Musk’s X

Basit Mahmood
12 August, 2024

‘I don’t wish to fish in that particular pond anymore.’

Brexit

EXCLUSIVE: Majority of voters want Labour government to seek closer ties with the EU, poll finds

Basit Mahmood
12 August, 2024

The poll findings come at a time of widespread dissatisfaction among the public with Brexit, with polls consistently showing that a majority of voters believe Brexit to have been a mistake.

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