Conservative Party still receives large donations from individuals and companies with links to Russia
“Since the start of the war in 2022, the Conservatives have accepted at least £243,000 from Russia-associated donors”
Conservative Party
Leaked WhatsApp messages reveal Gavin Williamson’s appalling views on teachers
Williamson accused teachers of looking for an “excuse” not to work during the pandemic.
‘They’ve gone from clapping the nurses to sacking the nurses’, Sunak roasted at PMQs by Keir Starmer
“The simple truth is you can’t legislate your way out of 13 years of failure.”
Mick Lynch interview: RMT willing to work with Labour Party and progressives to resist anti-strike laws
“It’s an outrageous attack on our civil liberties and on democracy in our country. The trade unions are the bastion of democracy and the bastion of rights and the ability for people to organise independently”
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Tory MP Bob Stewart tells human rights activist who was tortured to ‘go back to Bahrain’
Alwadaei asked the MP: “How much did you sell yourself to the Bahraini regime”.
Tory donor says the party is not fit to run the country
“I think its got to move on from fighting its own internal wars and focus on what needs to be done on the economy and admitting some of the mistakes they’ve made in the last six years”
Liz Truss resigns as prime minister after just 6 weeks in office
She’s gone.
Nadine Dorries ridiculed after suggesting Boris Johnson be brought back as a PM
“He lost that mandate when he broke the law, lied and broke the ministerial code and was forced to resign by his own government.”
Jeremy Hunt demolishes Liz Truss’s entire mini-budget announcing massive U-turns
Hunt said that the government will “reverse almost all of the tax measures”