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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MPs voice support of Climate and Ecological Emergency Bill ahead of second reading
Government’s ‘destructive’ climate emergency inaction called into light as MPs pledge support of the CEE Bill.
Tony Burke: Labour must learn from New Zealand’s radical employment law overhaul
Unions in New Zealand have praised proposals for the implementation of a new Fair Pay Agreement, which aims to create industry-wide pay deals with minimum terms and conditions.
Fears grow for patient welfare after Northern Ireland medicine problems continue
Stormont’s Health Minister said he had “deep concerns about the risk to patient health and maintaining vital medical supplies”.
650,000 sign petition to make medical cannabis accessible to children with epilepsy
The End Our Pain campaign is calling on MPs to help the children ahead of Monday’s Parliamentary debate.
Queer Night Pride marches held in the face of rising sexual orientation hate crimes
“The queer community shouldn’t have to see our brothers’ and sisters’ faces, siblings’ faces, black and blue across social media.”
Met say use of force was “reasonable and proportionate” at Extinction Rebellion protest
Officers allegedly struck and wrestled protesters near London Bridge on Tuesday.
Tories face backlash over plans to hike National Insurance to pay for social care for elderly
‘We need a tax rise to pay for social care, but not this one’.
Green Party ask Sian Berry to remove video expressing her preferences in leadership election
Sian had called for members to give their first and second preference votes to either Tamsin Omond and Amelia Womack, or to Carla Denyer and Adrian Ramsay.
Prof Prem Sikka: Why the government needs to abolish tuition fees and write off student debt
‘In March 2021, the outstanding student debt was around £141bn’.
Mary Kelly Foy MP: Simply saying that we will be carbon neutral by 2050 is not enough
‘The likes of BP and Exxon need to be held accountable for the masses of emissions they produce’.