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

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24 April, 2026 (2 days ago)

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Priti Patel

Priti Patel accepts £100,000 donation from company run by one of the world’s most prominent oil traders

Basit Mahmood
4 April, 2022

Priti Patel’s members’ interests register shows that she accepted funds from Andurand Ventures Ltd, the company is run by Pierre Andurand, a leading oil trader.

Levelling up

Tories’ levelling up ‘propaganda’ ads spark fury among opposition

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
3 April, 2022

Just weeks ahead of the local elections on May 5, 2022, ministers are accused of using public money to fund ‘Tory propaganda’ ads that pledge to level up the country

Lateral flow tests

Concerns raised that ending free Covid tests will hit the poorest the hardest

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
3 April, 2022

Warnings have been made that the stamping out of free testing will leave those on the lowest incomes and the most vulnerable paying the price.

Piers Morgan and Sharon Osbourne

Murdoch’s TalkTV to launch on April 25 with roster of right-wing pundits

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
2 April, 2022

The arrival of the new TV network is likely to heighten the growing fixation on ‘opinionated’ and ‘politicalised’ news commentary, potentially widening political polarities, while bringing yet more anti-woke, anti-left debates to the fore.

A protest with campaigners holding a banner reading "cut energy bills"

Resistance builds against ‘government-made’ cost of living crisis

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
2 April, 2022

Thousands of people are coming together today, demanding the redistribution of wealth and power, decent wages for all, and justice for the sacked P&O workers.

City of culture

Winning UK City of Culture can bring real benefits – we must ensure more communities can participate in its success

Ben Cooper
1 April, 2022

Reform is needed so that more communities can participate in its success.  

What has happened to Steve Baker’s relaunch of Thatcherite pressure group Conservative Way Forward?

John Lubbock
1 April, 2022

Steve Baker MP announced the relaunch of the Conservative Way Forward campaign group in December, so what happened to it?

The UK’s tax system is regressive, rewards the wealthy and is in urgent need of reform

Prem Sikka
1 April, 2022

‘The UK tax system is regressive. It penalises workers, pensioners and their families. It rewards speculators and rentiers. It favours financial speculation over the hard graft of work’

energy bills

Energy crisis: A 5-point plan to meet the UK’s energy needs

Basit Mahmood
1 April, 2022

5 steps the country could take to ensure a cleaner and more affordable future.

A photo of coins on top of an article explaining that Energy companies are raising prices

2.5 million households with children in fuel poverty after new energy price cap comes into effect

Basit Mahmood
1 April, 2022

Over half (55.7%) of lone-parent households (855,938) will be in fuel poverty from today

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