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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Are Priti Patel’s plans to send migrant boats back to France lawful?
‘The Government’s push back plan is senseless, dangerous and almost certainly unlawful.’
5 problems with the government’s social care reforms
‘The funding pot being talked about for social care is not sufficient to even address the issues of today.’
Climate campaigner warns Scottish Government lacks “credible plan” on Net Zero
The government “focuses on short term solutions and on as yet unproved emissions reduction technologies”.
SNP conference: After 14 years in power, what challenges are left to the SNP?
The party’s reign at the top of Scottish politics doesn’t stretch to the 1970s, but 14 years of power make it a rarity in European politics
Gavin Williamson mocked for demanding universities get back to ‘in person teaching’ while using videolink
“Gavin a mare’ should be a thing.”
‘Merchants of death are not welcome in London’: Further demonstrations planned against world’s largest arms fair
‘Warmongers and dictators are not welcome here.’
Government slammed over “complete disregard for Muslim communities and the discrimination they face.”
“This Government doesn’t care!”
Right-wingers turn on Boris Johnson for ‘shameful betrayal over tax rises’
One thinks it ‘guarantees the total victory of socialism in Britain’.
Priti Patel slammed for ‘inhumane and illegal’ plans to send boats carrying migrants back to France
‘Rather than spending time, resource and immense effort on pushing these very vulnerable people away, this government must give people options for safe routes’
Carla Denyer and Adrian Ramsay: We’re going to take back the Green New Deal from Labour
‘Environmental policies aren’t ‘for the planet’ – the planet will be fine. It’s us, the people living on it, that these policies are for.’