Radical Roundup: 10 stories that have got buried – Week 4, September 2021
The news you didn’t see this week…
Tories
Lib Dem conference: Party tries to woo Tory voters
Having overturned a 16,000 majority in Chesham and Amersham, the party is confident that it can win over more disgruntled Tory voters.
Five unforgettable blunders by Gavin Williamson as rumours about his future grow
A look back a political career characterised by gaffes
Calls to investigate senior Tory who coached corporate clients on handling MP scrutiny
James Gray MP accepted payments to train witnesses ahead of select committee appearances.
Official Secrets Act: Tory proposals are part of a long history of suppressing journalism to hide government misdeeds
The government wants to toughen the law again for the digital age. But the real target is journalists and their sources.
Unite’s Steve Turner says ‘no one can get close to his record’ and calls on Labour to offer ‘real opposition’
‘I am standing on my record and nobody can touch that, they won’t even get close.’
Andy Burnham: Tories’ divisive approach to ‘levelling up’ will hurt the UK
It follows a series of scandals over ‘pork barrel’ politics in the government’s levelling up spending.
Voters in Chesham and Amersham showed why we need a progressive alliance, campaigners say
The Liberal Democrats overturned a 16,000 Tory majority to win the Chesham and Amersham by-election
No 10 dismisses calls for independent oversight of Tory ‘Levelling Up’ plans
Establishing independent oversight of the Tories’ proposed Levelling Up plans would “not be standard practice”. That’s kind of the problem…
Government anti-extremism tsar gave speech for ‘US hate group’
Perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised…