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Labour urged to reverse decision to block Andy Burnham from standing in by-election

Olivia Barber
Today

Mainstream has said the decision should be reversed, while Manchester voters also say that Labour was “wrong” to block Burnham from standing

Keir Starmer at PMQs

How Labour MPs have reacted to Andy Burnham being blocked

Basit Mahmood
Today

It’s resulted in a mixed reaction…

Andy Burnham

Reform’s newest MP backs privatising the NHS

Olivia Barber
Today

Andrew Rosindell said he would not object to scrapping the NHS and replacing it with a private insurance model.

Andrew Rosindell backs moving to a private insurance model for healthcare

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Jon Snow at Glastobury

Six unforgettable Channel 4 moments that ruffled Conservative feathers

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
9 April, 2022

As the government announces plans to press ahead with the privatisation of Channel 4, we take a look at some memorable occasions when the broadcaster caused unease among Tory ranks.

Greg hands

Tory minister laughed at and mocked on BBC Question Time after insisting that £200 energy ‘discount’ is not ‘a loan’

Basit Mahmood
8 April, 2022

‘But you have to pay it back, it sounds like a loan?’

£10 notes pegged to a washing line

The government has facilitated frauds and tax dodges running into tens of billions of pounds

Prem Sikka
8 April, 2022

‘The UK economy is in dire straits. It has the highest level of reported government fraud, the highest level of taxation for 70 years, and the biggest decline in living standards since the Second World War’

Boris Johnson

Government slammed for plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda for processing

Basit Mahmood
8 April, 2022

“What next? “Offshoring” the unemployed? The sick? the disabled? Protesters? Criminals?”

sunak

Rishi Sunak’s wife Akshata Murthy criticised for ‘misleading statement’ defending her non-dom tax status

Basit Mahmood
7 April, 2022

Tax campaigners have been quick to point out that non-dom status is a choice individuals make rather than something that is automatically conferred as a result of nationality.

Voting Ballot Box

Government defeated in the Lords over plans to introduce photo ID in elections

Basit Mahmood
7 April, 2022

Cabinet Office research has found that 42 percent of those with no photo ID said they were unlikely to apply.

Demo Ukraine

Trade Unions set to hold demonstration in solidarity with Ukraine

Basit Mahmood
7 April, 2022

The demonstration is also being backed by Ukrainian trade unions including the Federation of Trade Unions of Ukraine

Who is John Malone, the ‘Cable Cowboy’ and GB News backer who could buy Channel 4?

John Lubbock
6 April, 2022

GB News backer John Malone, who is the largest landowner in the US, is in the running to buy Channel 4.

Right-Wing Watch

Right Wing Watch Newsletter: When did the right become the snowflakes?

John Lubbock
6 April, 2022

In this week’s newsletter, the right has predicted that ‘the end of Britain’ is night because a pub in Devon renamed the ploughman’s sandwich.

Radical Roundup: 10 stories that have got buried – Week 1, April 2022

Basit Mahmood
6 April, 2022

The news you didn’t seek this week…

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