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Suella Braverman brutally mocked after defecting to Reform UK

Basit Mahmood
Yesterday

In the least surprising defection ever…

Priti Patel has meltdown when LBC presenter points out negative impact of Brexit

Olivia Barber
Yesterday

Patel accused Goodall of giving a “political lecture”

Suella Braverman was rattled by Lewis Goodall's criticism of Brexiteers' assumptions

Where the Government’s Animal Welfare Strategy Needs to Go Further 

Jenny Canham
Yesterday

The Animal Welfare Strategy is a good start, but if it is to be a document we can be proud of, it must close gaps where cruelty is most extreme

animal welfare

Latest Posts

Millions of people in the UK are missing meals because of the cost of living crisis, new survey finds

Basit Mahmood
9 May, 2022

There has been a 57% jump in the proportion of households cutting back on food or missing meals altogether in just three months.

Cost of living crisis

Interest rates rise will exacerbate the cost-of-living crisis unions warn, amid calls for an emergency budget

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
8 May, 2022

‘Once again, the working people of this country will pay the price.’

A person's hands running a Covid test

Government’s Covid testing programme disparaged as ‘unlegit’ and ‘no way to do business’

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
8 May, 2022

‘Has there ever been a government so allergic to accountability?’

Alooj Shah

North’s first female Muslim council leader slams ‘dehumanising’ smear campaign

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
7 May, 2022

Arooj Shah says she saw a ‘new low in the Conservatives in Oldham.’

Stop fracking

EXCLUSIVE: Majority of public back investment in renewables not fracking, poll finds

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
7 May, 2022

Almost 70% of those asked support investment in green energy, compared to just 17% who back extraction of shale gas.

£10 notes pegged to a washing line

This is why essential industries need to be brought back into public ownership

Prem Sikka
6 May, 2022

Privatised industries pursue short-term objectives rather than long-term social objectives

Conservative Party rosette

Anger after Tory who pleaded guilty to assaulting woman is re-elected as a councillor

Basit Mahmood
6 May, 2022

Gordon Cranney had pleaded guilty to the assault at Teesside Magistrates Court

Institute of Economic Affairs denies that fossil fuel funding affects its opposition to taxing oil company profits

John Lubbock
6 May, 2022

The free market think tank says we shouldn’t tax oil companies more as BP and Shell announced record profits

Boris Johnson scratching his head

Tory council leader calls for Boris Johnson to quit after party suffers humiliating defeat in local election

Basit Mahmood
6 May, 2022

People don’t have “confidence that the prime minister can be relied upon to tell the truth”

Local Elections 2022: Labour, Lib Dems and Greens toast successes

Basit Mahmood
6 May, 2022

It’s been a disastrous night for the Tories in London, where Labour has taken control of hugely significant councils in Wandsworth, Barnet and Westminster

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