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Panic has set in among Reform’s senior figures

Nigel Farage refuses to condemn Trump's comments on LBC

The House of Lords is increasingly illegitimate

Tom Brake

Today

Removing hereditary peers won’t go far enough to give the Lords legitimacy

Mick Lynch destroys Tories record on healthcare in five words

Hannah Davenport

14 June, 2024

The RMT General Secretary nailed his response to a Tory politician on NHS failings

Angela Rayner applauded after rallying cry for integrity in politics

13 June, 2024

“We need our politicians who make the rules to play by the rules as well.”

Representatives of British political parties at the ITV debate. Angela Rayner, Penny Mordaun, Daisy Cooper and Nigel Farage have their hands raised. Stephen Flynn, Carla Denyer and Rhun ap Iorwerth do not.

Election debate: These are the four parties that said they want to cut immigration

13 June, 2024

They were asked to raise their hands if they think legal migration should fall

Penny Mordaunt at the ITV election debate

Election debate: Audience LAUGHS OUT LOUD at Penny Mordaunt claiming education system is ‘world class’ under Tories

13 June, 2024

This wasn’t well received…

Carla Denyer at the ITV general election debate

“An NHS for people not profit” – Green Party co-leader rails against NHS privatisation in leaders’ debate

13 June, 2024

Carla Denyer also called for more investment in the NHS

Key takeaways from Labour’s manifesto launch

13 June, 2024

The Labour Party today unveiled its manifesto for the 4 July General Election, with wealth creation and economic growth at the heart of the party’s plans.

A quarter of 2019 Tory voters think the Conservative Party deserve to lose every seat at the election

13 June, 2024

“Forty-six per cent of people agreed that the Tories “deserve to lose every seat they have”

BMA takes apart Rishi Sunak’s claim that strikes are to blame for NHS waiting lists with a single fact

13 June, 2024

“Rishi Sunak seems confused about his pay dispute with doctors.”

BREAKING: Snap poll finds Keir Starmer clear winner in Sky leaders debate

Hannah Davenport

12 June, 2024

Sir Keir Starmer won the debate by a large margin

Rishi Sunak has endured his most difficult interview yet of the general election campaign, as Sky’s Beth Rigby took him apart for his catalogue of failures, broken promises and appalling record in office. Sunak took part in the leaders debate which included a one-to-one grilling by Rigby after Keir Starmer was also quizzed. The Prime Minister was booed and laughed at as he tried to blame NHS waiting lists on striking workers. He was also grilled over the Tory party’s record on immigration. Rigby told Sunak that net migration into the country had more than doubled in the last three years from before we left the European Union, to a shocked audience. The audience applauded when Sunak was asked: “Why should anyone believe anything you say on immigration”. Rishi Sunak

Disaster for Rishi Sunak as PM is taken apart by Beth Rigby over ‘catalogue of broken promises’ and failed record