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Four of the worst recent right-wing ‘polls’ and why they’re so misleading

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
Today

The polls that regularly appear on the pages of the right-wing press, frequently rely on loaded questions, selective statistics and audiences already primed to agree with the publication’s editorial position.

From lockdown to legitimacy: how pandemic fringe politics pushed populism into the mainstream

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
Today

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.

Right-Wing Watch

Thousands sign petition calling for UK to join the European single market

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
Today

“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.”

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The TaxPayers’ alliance has previously criticised spending vast amounts of public cash on ‘spin doctors’.

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‘Private equity is the architect of the next crash which will hit every household’.

Andrew Neil ‘may never return to GB News’ amid clash with boss

Basit Mahmood
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Insiders say that Neil has been ‘frozen out of decision making’.

GCSE results: Gap between poorer and wealthier students continues to widen

Basit Mahmood
12 August, 2021

There was a widening of the gap for poorer students on free school meals, who scored on average 0.1 of a grade lower compared with 2019.

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A quarter of bosses are not giving staff paid time off to get vaccinated

Basit Mahmood
12 August, 2021

Polling also found that 26 percent of employers had not been paying full company sick pay to staff who are off sick with COVID vaccine side effects.

Tories face backlash over plans that could allow animal testing for cosmetic ingredients

Basit Mahmood
12 August, 2021

Animal testing on ingredients exclusively used in cosmetics was banned in the UK in 1998.

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Green deputy Amelia Womack launches joint leadership bid with climate activist Tamsin Omond

Chris Jarvis
12 August, 2021

The race for the leadership of the Green Party of England and Wales has stepped up a gear. Today, the party’s current deputy leader Amelia Womack announced she’s standing for the top job, on a co-leadership ticket with climate activisttest

Comments by Labour councillor calling for volunteer group to deal with migrant channel crossings spark outrage

Sophia Dourou
11 August, 2021

In a deleted series of tweets he called for a voluntary ‘Home Guard’

Revealed: A majority of Tory voters think the government’s travel rules are unclear

Sophia Dourou
11 August, 2021

A new survey shows that the public believe that covid travel rules lack clarity

The climate catastrophe is not a ‘metropolitan elite’ concern as leaked Tory comments suggest

Sophia Dourou
11 August, 2021

The climate crisis is a concern among all communities and affects the most disadvantaged.

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