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kwasi kwarteng

Kwarteng seeks savings from aid budget to help offset cost of tax cuts that benefit the wealthy

Basit Mahmood
12 October, 2022

‘Kwarteng is looking to save £5bn from Britain’s overseas aid budget as he tries desperately to convince investors he has a plan to reduce the country’s debt’

Jacob Rees-Mogg
News

Jacob Rees-Mogg accuses BBC of breaching impartiality for suggesting financial turmoil has anything to do with mini-budget

Basit Mahmood
12 October, 2022

“I think jumping to conclusions about causality is not meeting the BBC requirement for impartiality”

Food experts issue dire warning: Tearing up EU rules too quickly threatens safety and hygiene standards

Basit Mahmood
10 October, 2022

Among the ‘retained laws’ which will be swept away as part of the government’s bonfire of EU laws and regulations, are obligations to alert consumers about allergens in foods.

A placard with text reading "There is no planet B"

Tory minister pushes to downgrade importance of climate change in trade deals

Basit Mahmood
7 October, 2022

Conor Burns said he had been fighting back in his first two weeks at the Department for International Trade against plans ‘to push net-zero and the environment to the top of every single trade agreement as a sort of policy objective’.

Liz Truss in military wear sat on a tank

Why we should all be worried about the government’s dangerous deregulation plan

Prem Sikka
7 October, 2022

There is little appreciation that rights and protections embodied in regulation are the outcome of generations of struggles to safeguards lives, homes, jobs, savings, property rights, dignity, and freedom from discrimination.

Latest polling shows Tories would be left with just 85 seats

Basit Mahmood
7 October, 2022

Labour would have a majority of 292 seats

Liz Truss speaking in the House of Commons

Petition demanding an early general election hits more than 500,000 signatures

Basit Mahmood
6 October, 2022

The petition, which calls for an ‘immediate general election to end the chaos of the current government’ has, as of today, received 557,976 signatures.

More than 330,000 excess deaths in Great Britain linked to austerity, study finds

Basit Mahmood
5 October, 2022

‘Mortality rates across the UK stopped improving in the early 2010s, largely attributable to UK Government’s ‘austerity’ policies.’

Andrea Jenkyns

Tory education minister Andrea Jenkyns called out for peddling fake news and stoking culture wars

Basit Mahmood
4 October, 2022

There are currently no British universities offering a degree in Harry Potter studies.

Jake Berry
News

Outrage after Tory chair tells people struggling with the cost of living crisis to just ‘get a new job’

Basit Mahmood
4 October, 2022

“People know that when their bills arrive, they can either cut their consumption or they can get a higher salary, higher wages, go out there and get that new job.”

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