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Penny Mordaunt has accepted thousands of pounds in donations from donor linked to climate denial group
Mordaunt received the donation from a firm called ‘First Corporate Consultants, owned by Terence Mordaunt – a renowned critic of established climate change science’.
Councils have to subsidise private schools to the tune of £144 million per year because of their charitable status, new research finds
Private schools in England and Wales receive public subsidy through local taxation relief, having to pay only 20 percent of their tax assessments as a result of relief on business rates. State schools, meanwhile, must pay the full rate.
Radical Roundup: 10 stories that have got buried – Week 2, July 2022
The news you didn’t see this week…
Priti Patel slammed for avoiding accountability after refusing to appear before Home Affairs Committee
“Not exactly in the spirit of the ministerial code”
Tory leadership: Nadhim Zahawi says he would give Boris Johnson a job in his cabinet
“If [Mr Johnson] wishes to serve in Cabinet then I would certainly offer him a job”, said Zahawi
Labour plans no confidence vote in bid to boot Boris Johnson from Downing Street sooner
‘The Tory party has at last concluded that the prime minister is unfit for office, that was blindingly obvious a very, very long time ago.’
Why Labour is right to want to end charitable status for private schools
Only a few weeks ago it was revealed that Eton, for example, received £3.3 million of rental income from its real estate portfolio and £5.8 million from selling commercial property. Why it deserves tax exemptions not afforded to state schools is a question that continues to baffle those of us who want a fairer education system for all.
Tory leadership contender Suella Braverman slammed for demonising the poor
Braverman of course completely overlooks the fact that 56% of people in poverty in the UK are in a working family and 7 in 10 children in child poverty are in a family where at least one parent works.
Voices on the Left: 5 blogs from the left you need to read this week
A roundup of progressive news…
Nadhim Zahawi’s tax affairs under investigation by HMRC
Revelations about the investigation are awkward for Zahawi, given that HMRC falls under the control of the treasury.