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 Right’s ideological war on education
Is another unwelcome American import coming to Britain, where the political Right often look to US counterparts for ideological inspiration?
Suella Braverman blasts Jeremy Hunt’s Spring Budget, as Tory civil war deepens
It’s not just opposition parties and trade unions that are lambasting the Spring Budget. Tories are too.
Fuel poverty protestors gather in Manchester to shine light on thousands of lives cut short this winter due to uninhabitable homes
“The next government’s energy policy should aim at ending fuel poverty, not managing it, and the money to do it is right there in energy company profits.”
International Women’s Day: Britain’s increasing gender pay inequality revealed in new reports
At the current rate of progress, it will take 43 years to close the gender pay gap in Britain.
Theresa May to stand down as MP at general election, as Tory Commons’ exodus grows
May is one of 64 Tory MPs who have announced they will be quitting Parliament.
Labour starts to close fundraising gap with Tories but work still to be done
In total, the Labour Party received £13m – its highest ever donation amount – from wealthy individuals and companies last year.
Why Jeremy Hunt’s budget fails Britain
The evidence of past policy failures is all around us. Since 2010, the real economy has grown by around 1.2% a year and is set to have the weakest growth amongst G7 countries.
Jeremy Hunt lashes out at BBC presenter over being called ‘fiscal drag queen’
Hunt isn’t too happy…
Tories will preside over the first parliament in modern history to see a fall in living standards, damning analysis finds
That’s the Tory record in office, declining living standards with workers left worse off.
‘Pre-election gimmicks’: How trade unions reacted to the Budget
From missed opportunities to ‘Tory hot air’, trade unions weigh in on the Spring Budget announcements