Reform UK candidate says women should stay at home and look after the kids instead of going to work
So much for Farage’s ‘beefed up’ vetting of candidates, clearly people with disgraceful and bigoted views are still being let through.
Green MP calls on Keir Starmer to resign over Peter Mandelson scandal in fiery PMQs speech
‘Does the prime minister not recognise that the best thing he can do to restore trust […] is to take true responsibility and resign?’
Farage told to act over Reform local election candidates with racist, sexist and homophobic views
Reform continues to allow candidates with “grotesque” views to stand for the party
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These scandals show why the finance sector must be challenged this election
The stench of regulatory failure in the finance sector is everywhere. It has to be an election issue.
Why Green peers opposed the election bill
“The situation of all of us having the politics the few pay is dangerous”
Migrant workers at Boris Johnson donor’s club balloted for strike action over pay
They want the London Living Wage and sick pay
Greens say Jo Swinson’s call for three-way election debates will ‘marginalise millions’
The Lib Dem leader believes only Corbyn, Johnson and herself should be in TV debates
New tool suggests how to vote ‘tactically’ to prevent Tory election win. But not everyone agrees…
Without tactical voting the tool predicts a Conservative majority
Anonymous staffer: The inside story of the People’s Vote campaign crisis
A People’s Vote worker gives an inside perspective on a tumultuous week for the organisation.
BREAKING: Hopes for a ‘progressive alliance’ just got quite the kicking
Labour rules out ANY electoral pacts during or after the General Election.
Fire Brigades Union: After the Grenfell report, here’s what should happen next
As the first phase of the Grenfell inquiry is published, the General Secretary of the Fire Brigade’s Union says politicians – not firefighters – are to blame.
This must be the ‘climate crisis election’, activists say
“This General Election must be a climate election – and the choice is stark.”