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Nigel Farage brutally mocked after trying to explain why Reform MPs walked out of PMQs

Basit Mahmood
Today

“Petulant hissy fit man having highlighted the very reason why he is unfit for office then plays on it to the crowd of paying gullibles.”

Nigel Farage at PMQs

Reform’s growing list of policy U-turns

Olivia Barber
Today

Reform has dropped its pledge to part-nationalise water and energy companies in its latest U-turn

Richard Tice goes on lengthy rant about an investigation into his taxes

Reform’s year in power in local government: A year of tax rises, cuts and defections

Basit Mahmood
Today

Nothing but broken promises, council tax rises and infighting among its councillors.

Nigel Farage responds to school racism allegations

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15-year wage stagnation has left average earnings £230 a week lower than their pre-financial crisis trend

Basit Mahmood
15 August, 2023

The good news of today doesn’t make up for 15 years of unprecedented wage stagnation.

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‘Modest’ wealth tax on richest 0.3% could raise more than £10bn for public services, says TUC

Basit Mahmood
15 August, 2023

The trade union body has set out options for taxing the small number of individuals with wealth over £3 million, £5 million and £10 million

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Over a third of England’s homes will be at high risk of overheating as temperatures reach new extremes, think tank warns

Basit Mahmood
15 August, 2023

The report also warns that when it comes to work, older workers are a particular risk of heat stress

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Number of ethnic minority workers in insecure jobs rises by 132% since 2011

Basit Mahmood
14 August, 2023

BME workers account for two thirds of the growth of insecure workers in this period – despite BME workers making up just 14% of the overall workforce. 

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Chart sums up perfectly just how bad Britain’s economy is under the Tories

Basit Mahmood
14 August, 2023

It comes as a leading economic think tank warned that the UK is on course to experience five years of “lost” economic growth and is at risk of a recession next year.

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How the Sun’s anti-net zero campaign is linked to a lobby group funded by the freight and haulage industry

Basit Mahmood
14 August, 2023

What the Sun also fails to mention is that its five-point manifesto bears a striking resemblance to the ‘five core campaign objectives’ of FairFuelUK

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Cartoons not cruelty: Calls grow to restore cartoons at children’s asylum centres

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
13 August, 2023

Artists are on standby, offering to paint the cartoons back in at no expense to the taxpayer.

Bibby Stockholm

Migrants removed from ‘deathtrap’ barge, as government faces huge backlash over latest hostile immigration policy

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
13 August, 2023

‘This is yet another example of an ill-thought-out, knee-jerk reaction to the government’s own backlog of asylum claims.’

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Government data confirms Brexit as a main driver of exports decline

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
12 August, 2023

More than a third of businesses say their prospects for growth in 2023 have been hampered by a decline in demand for British goods because of Brexit.

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Jacob Rees-Mogg accused of spreading ‘fake history’ while mocking civil service growth

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
12 August, 2023

The former Brexit opportunities minister has been slammed for comments he made on his GB News show about colonialism.

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