Truss and Sunak under fire for NHS crisis ‘complacency’
The Tory leadership contenders have been accused of being ‘worryingly bare’ on health policy ideas to solve the crisis the NHS is currently grappling with.
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Activists protest Shell’s Jackdaw gas field project as no solution to cost-of-living crisis
‘Gas is now a staggering nine times more expensive than renewables, and we know it wrecks the planet. So it’s absolutely unfathomable that the government is so fixated on gas, when what’s needed for households and for the climate are genuine solutions.’
Liz Truss condemned after her refusal to confirm she would appoint a new government ethics adviser
Truss argued that she wouldn’t need an ethics adviser because she knows the difference between right and wrong.
Liz Truss’s £235m cut to Environment Agency ‘doubled sewage discharge’
The Labour Party says its analysis shows that since 2016, when Truss was in charge of Defra – raw sewage discharge more than doubled from 14.7 per overflow in 2016 to 29.3 in 2021.
Jacob Rees-Mogg brutally mocked after being tipped to become levelling up secretary
‘If Jacob Rees Mogg becomes Levelling Up Secretary you can wave goodbye to the whole concept of levelling up’
Tory MP says Liz Truss’ economic policies will make people homeless
‘Liz Truss is talking about tax cuts that will help low-income households to the tune of £1 a week and yet it would help a household like mine to the tune of £30 a week. It’s simply not right.’
Liz Truss attacks British workers to deflect from Tory failings on the economy
‘The UK has serious problems of skills and low productivity, but they require policies. The idiotic worker-bashing comments by Liz Truss make headlines but offer no analysis of the problems or durable solutions.’
Liz Truss argued for cutting doctors’ pay and charging patients to see GPs, unearthed report shows
The report, entitled ‘Back to Black’, which was uncovered by TalkTV, also proposed cuts to the pensions, education and communities budgets as part of push to shrink the size of the state under the then Labour government.
Latest poll of Tory members shows leadership race is pretty much over for Sunak
In the latest Conservative Home survey, 60% of those asked say that they have already voted.
Liz Truss slammed for saying British workers should show ‘more graft’ in leaked recording
“It takes some brass neck to say British workers need “more graft” when you’ve served in a government that hasn’t done its day job for months.”