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LFF Live: How do we clean up politics? With the Good Law Project

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24 April, 2026 (3 days ago)

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Latest Posts

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

Warnings made about newly formed group of climate change sceptics

Climate sceptic think tank receives funding from US billionaire bankroller of Conservative crusades

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
5 May, 2022

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

Piers Morgan hits out at ‘woke whiny wastrels’ after ratings for Uncensored show nosedive

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
5 May, 2022

The outspoken broadcaster took offense to reports about the fall in popularity of the flagship show on Murdoch’s TalkTV.

Social housing

A ‘hare-brained idea’: Johnson’s musing of Right to Buy denounced as ploy to win ‘red wall’ votes

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
5 May, 2022

“This is desperate stuff from a tired government, repackaging a plan from 2015.”

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