5 Reform UK disasters this week
This week has seen Nigel Farage defend a Nazi salute and a homophobic joke, and U-turn on another policy pledge
Senior Reform UK figures panicking Trump links could cause them electoral damage
Panic has set in among Reform’s senior figures
The House of Lords is increasingly illegitimate
Removing hereditary peers won’t go far enough to give the Lords legitimacy
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Climate sceptic think tank receives funding from US billionaire bankroller of Conservative crusades
Global Warming Policy Foundation, the UK’s most prominent climate sceptic policy group, has received funding from the Sarah Scaife Foundation, one of the biggest donors to hard-line Conservative causes in the US over the decades.
Piers Morgan hits out at ‘woke whiny wastrels’ after ratings for Uncensored show nosedive
The outspoken broadcaster took offense to reports about the fall in popularity of the flagship show on Murdoch’s TalkTV.
A ‘hare-brained idea’: Johnson’s musing of Right to Buy denounced as ploy to win ‘red wall’ votes
“This is desperate stuff from a tired government, repackaging a plan from 2015.”
Local elections: Tory candidates desperately attempt to distance themselves from Johnson and Westminster
Conservative council candidates have been accused of ‘trying to hide from their own government’s record’, as they attempt to dissociate from the scandal-mired prime minister.
Radical Roundup: 10 stories that have got buried – Week 1, May 2022
The news you didn’t seek this week…
Baroness Jones: Why the Green Party poses a threat to the Tories in their rural heartlands
‘This isn’t just a dip caused by Boris Johnson’s lies and PartyGate, it’s an indicator of a more serious problem facing the Conservatives as they lose the support of rural communities.’
The Nationality and Borders Bill has passed, what now?
Analysis from the Refugee Council predicts more than 19,000 people a year fleeing war, conflict, and bloodshed could face years in UK prisons for attempting to find safety.
Boris Johnson pictured campaigning with Tory councillor linked to ‘furlough fraud’
In March, North Tyneside Conservatives were accused of abusing the furlough scheme
Why James Delingpole and Maajid Nawaz’s event for vaccine sceptics should worry us
The conspiracy theory-promoting event was attended by figures like Laurence Fox, Tommy Robinson and John Mappin.
Boris Johnson embarrasses himself in car crash interview discussing cost of living crisis
Asked if he was honest, Johnson said he does his ‘best to represent faithfully and accurately what I believe.’