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Liz Truss argued for cutting doctors’ pay and charging patients to see GPs, unearthed report shows

Basit Mahmood
19 August, 2022

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.

Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss on a Channel 4 debate for the Tory leadership election
News

Latest poll of Tory members shows leadership race is pretty much over for Sunak

Basit Mahmood
17 August, 2022

In the latest Conservative Home survey, 60% of those asked say that they have already voted.

Keir Starmer speaking at the dispatch box of the House of Commons on the sacking of P&O Ferries workers at PMQs
News

Starmer polls ahead of both Tory leadership hopefuls in 12 key areas

Chris Jarvis
11 August, 2022

He also polls best on who would make a good prime minister.

A photo of Rishi Sunak leaving Downing Street

Rishi Sunak laughs when asked ‘what does levelling up actually mean?’

Basit Mahmood
10 August, 2022

“He is literally laughing in the public’s face. But for most people, the failure of the Tory Govt to tackle inequality in this country is no laughing matter.”

NHS GP surgery

Government urged to take bolder action to address rising health inequality

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
7 August, 2022

As Rishi Sunak plans to charge NHS patients £10 for ‘no shows’, reports show growing disparity in access to healthcare and rising health inequality across the UK.

A photo of Rishi Sunak leaving Downing Street

Rishi Sunak boasts of taking money away from ‘deprived urban areas’ for wealthy towns

Basit Mahmood
5 August, 2022

‘We inherited a bunch of formulas from the Labour Party that shoved all the funding into deprived urban areas and that needed to be undone.’

A photo of Rishi Sunak leaving Downing Street

Rishi Sunak’s plan to widen definition of extremism to include people who ‘vilify’ Britain slammed as attack on free speech

Basit Mahmood
3 August, 2022

“It is straying into thought crimes and political opinions.”

Sunak and Truss

Both Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss are planning further austerity for schools

Basit Mahmood
2 August, 2022

Spending per pupil in 2024-25 is expected to be 3% lower than in 2010, after costs for schools are taken into account.

A photo of Rishi Sunak leaving Downing Street

Rishi Sunak’s plan to fine patients £10 for missing appointments is condemned by NHS leaders

Basit Mahmood
1 August, 2022

“Charging patients for missed appointments would not only undermine the essential trust between doctor and patient, but ultimately threaten the fundamental principle that the NHS delivers free care at the point of need, for all.”

A photo of Rishi Sunak leaving Downing Street
Opinion

What Rishi Sunak’s defence of his private school education reveals about the myth of meritocracy

Basit Mahmood
26 July, 2022

Hard work and merit don’t operate in a vacuum, as Sunak would like us to believe.

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