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It’s estimated that as much as £17 billion of the £47 billion that the government spent on the bounce-back loans to support businesses during the pandemic will never be paid back.
The government has won a vote to take control of the Electoral Commission in what is being described as a dark day for our democracy. The elections bill passed last night, giving ministers new powers over the Electoral Commission, underminingtest
TalkTV launched this week, with a heavy concentration on culture war issues from presenters like Piers Morgan.
The news you didn’t seek this week…
‘The chief whip is looking into this matter. This behaviour is wholly unacceptable and action will be taken.’
NUS is backing a new campaign calling for universities to stop advertising careers in the fossil fuel industry to students
‘Non-doms and those making most of their income from assets, including property and dividends, remain relatively undertaxed’
‘Under successive governments we have been swamped with anti-migrant legislation and Home Office practice reflects that political outlook, and blocks claimants at every turn’.
“It was also steeped in classism as well and about where I come from and how I grew up”
