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Ipswich Town Football Club faces backlash over ‘shameful and embarrassing’ Nigel Farage visit

Olivia Barber
Today

The Reform leader’s visit was described as ‘PR suicide for a family club’

Reform drops points in latest poll, as Labour gains

Basit Mahmood
Today

After reaching highs of around 30% last year, a number of polls have shown Reform now dropping in the polls, as Farage’s appeal begins to fall.

Nigel Farage complains about banknote changes

Rachel Reeves takes swipe at Liz Truss for helping richest families pay their energy bills as she sets out support for poorest households

Basit Mahmood
Yesterday

Unlike Truss, the Chancellor has said that only the poorest households will get government support if the conflict pushes up gas and electricity charges.

A photo of the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, delivering the government's Spring Statement

Latest Posts

Chancellor Rishi Sunak

‘The majority of areas left behind by the government’s net zero plans are Tory seats’

Tommy Greene
9 November, 2021

‘Getting to net zero fairly is essential’

Boris Johnson cop26

Wera Hobhouse MP: Tory fossil fuel funding is delaying an end date for fossil fuels

Wera Hobhouse MP
8 November, 2021

‘As long as we have a Government dominated by vested interests, the UK will make no progress on climate action.’

£10 notes pegged to a washing line

The MPs making thousands in extra income who could be affected by a consultancy ban

Basit Mahmood
8 November, 2021

Here’s a list of some of the most prominent MPs, mostly Tories, earning thousands in extra income who could be affected by any ban on consultancy work

A placard with text reading "There is no planet B"

‘Global warming is not a problem’ says board member of Net Zero Watch which is backed by Tory MPs

Basit Mahmood
8 November, 2021

Lord Lawson claims that more CO2 emissions have only served to “warm the planet slightly”

Strikes at universities look likely this side of Christmas

‘More work for less reward’: Academics support strike action in new vote on pension cuts

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
7 November, 2021

University strike dispute intensifies as academics at 37 institutions support industrial action.

Empty supermarket shelves show the true cost of Brexit

Brexit swipes £17bn off UK trade with EU in 3 months – watchdog finds

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
7 November, 2021

A spending watchdog has confirmed the devastating impact Brexit has had on UK trade with Europe.

Training must be given to support transition to clean energy jobs

#COP26: Transition to clean energy must not come at expense of workers – campaigners warn

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
6 November, 2021

The mistakes of the past cannot be repeated, and workers must be put at the heart of the transition to green energy, COP26 leaders are told.

Kwasi Kwarteng suggests the standards commissioner's future is in doubt over the Owen Paterson lobbying affair.

Tory sleaze row: Calls made for probe into Kwarteng’s standards commissioner resignation comments

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
6 November, 2021

Business secretary Kwasi Kwarteng has been accused of bullying parliament’s independent regulator Kathryn Stone out of her job.

Local councils and net zero

COP26 mining statements obscure developed world’s ‘green extractivism’ plans

Tommy Greene
5 November, 2021

‘Many wealthy nations’ green transition strategies rely on a model characterised by industrial-scale extraction of finite metal and mineral reserves, while leaving commodity production and consumption unchecked.’

Owen Paterson vote

No10 refuses to deny Owen Paterson will be offered a peerage in future

Basit Mahmood
5 November, 2021

Boris Johnson’s spokesman repeatedly refuses to deny on the record that the prime minister offered Owen Paterson a peerage yesterday, or plans to give him one in the future.

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