The longer-term political consequences of the pandemic’s spread of fringe beliefs are visible in the evolution of Reform UK. Its anti-lockdown positioning provided Nigel Farage with a means to reconnect with disaffected voters and reassert his political relevance, much as he had done, with notable success, during the Brexit campaign.
“It would make it easier for British companies to trade, collaborate and hire, and it would help restore the confidence international investors once had in the UK as a gateway to Europe.”
This week has seen Nigel Farage defend a Nazi salute and a homophobic joke, and U-turn on another policy pledge
Several government-approved firms providing Covid tests have links to the Conservative party.
The UK must live up to its obligations to those who assisted it over the two-decade war.
Denyer and Ramsay’s pitch to the membership is centred around professionalising the party, getting more Greens elected and pushing for action on the climate.
Every justification for war used by Bush and Blair and their successors has been exposed as at best naive optimism and at worst outright deception.
Questions remain unanswered about the Advisory Board, privately marketed Covid tests and PR firm Hawthorn.
Without a doubt it is going to make things worse, says Caroline Haughey QC.
“As the Amazon burns, will you continue to do business with forest destroyers, fanning the flames of the fires?” says Brazilian Indigenous Leader, Sonia Guajajara.
Let’s express our solidarity with Lula and all Brazilians, making sure far-right Bolsonaro will be the next to go, says Claudia Webbe MP
The FBU says ‘climate catastrophe is the number one global issue facing the planet’.
The TaxPayers’ alliance has previously criticised spending vast amounts of public cash on ‘spin doctors’.
