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Rishi Sunak at the House of Commons despatch box at PMQs

Government launches new attack on right to strike

Basit Mahmood
5 January, 2023 (5 weeks ago)

“This legislation will remove the legal immunity for strikes where unions fail to implement a minimum level of service. The strikes will be illegal.”

Brendan Clarke-Smith

Tory MP slammed after telling firefighters using foodbanks to ‘learn how to budget’

Basit Mahmood
3 January, 2023

“Then on your much higher MP wage, why are you needing to claim expenses and eat taxpayer subsidised food? Just budget.”

Bob Stewart

Tory MP Bob Stewart tells human rights activist who was tortured to ‘go back to Bahrain’

Basit Mahmood
20 December, 2022

Alwadaei asked the MP: “How much did you sell yourself to the Bahraini regime”.

Tory councillor

The Tories’ new senior treasurer served as a minister in the brutal regime of Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak

Basit Mahmood
19 December, 2022

“Just when you think the Conservatives have plumbed the depths of sleaze and scandal we have this: a billionaire who was a part of Hosni Mubarak’s autocratic regime”

Dowden

Tory minister left red-faced after his false claim about the cost of public sector pay rises is exposed

Basit Mahmood
19 December, 2022

“If you want to be honest with people this morning, your numbers are not completely accurate are they?”

Grant Shapps

Grant Shapps gets upset and complains about having facts and figures ‘thrown at him’

Basit Mahmood
15 December, 2022

“If you’re uncomfortable with me using all these statistics on growth how would you like me to measure your performance as the Department for Growth?”.

Rishi Sunak at the House of Commons despatch box at PMQs

Tories threaten to push ahead with anti-strike laws in new year if Christmas strikes take place

Basit Mahmood
7 December, 2022

“If the Christmas Eve strike goes ahead, we need to crack on with the anti-strike laws early in the new year”, said one minister.

Tory councillor

Wife of former Putin minister makes another £52,000 donation to the Tories

Basit Mahmood
7 December, 2022

Lubov Chernukhin, the UK’s biggest female political donor ever and who is a wife of a former Putin Minister, donated a further £52,000 to the Tories over the summer.

Diane Abbott MP: The Public Order Bill has no place in a democratic society

Diane Abbott
7 December, 2022

‘This is a government that does not tire of lecturing the rest of the world on democracy and human rights, and yet this is Bill creates two classes of citizens.’

Charles Walker

Tory MP admits it’s ‘almost impossible for the Conservatives to win the next election’, warning more MPs will quit

Basit Mahmood
2 December, 2022

“Many of my colleagues will be thinking ‘Do I want to do much more of this? Do I want to go down to Electoral defeat?”

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