Reform’s first year running councils: ‘The atmosphere in the chamber has changed’
Reform’s first year running councils seems to have been defined by a focus on ‘culture war’ issues
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Nigel Farage’s first anti-Net Zero campaign event cancelled by venue
Bolton Wanderers FC said the event “is not something the club or business want to be associated with”.
Labour suspends John Bercow after report finds him guilty of bullying
The 89-page report said that Bercow’s conduct was “so serious that he should never be allowed a pass to the Parliamentary estate; and that if he were still a MP it would have recommended expelling him from the House”.
How Tower Hamlets council stepped up to support residents and businesses during the pandemic
‘During this crisis local government has stepped up as we know headline GDP figures don’t always reflect the reality on our high streets’
Government continues to bury its head in the sand over Islamophobia
Kemi Badenoch refused to even use the word Islamophobia in her answers
International Women’s Day: Why we must stand in solidarity with the women of Ukraine
Rape in war is an act of violence that can be as destructive as bullets and bombs, yet goes unreported, is under prosecuted, and where the root causes remain unchallenged.
Tory MPs suggest Priti Patel changes law so Russia’s “enablers” in House of Lords can be stripped of their peerages
Questions continue to be raised over Johnson’s role in pushing for a peerage for Evgeny Lebedev.
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Tory minister defends UK offering just 50 visas to Ukrainian refugees during car crash interview
The UK’s response has been slammed as ‘inhumane’
An enduring mental health crisis needn’t be a legacy of this pandemic
‘An enduring legacy from this pandemic should instead be putting mental health on par with physical health’
EU issues 30 times more sanctions than UK since Russia invaded Ukraine
Analysis by Bloomberg shows that while the EU has sanctioned 490 Russian entities since the country first invaded Ukraine, the UK has just sanctioned 16.