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Mystery Murdoch Meeting: No Minutes Recorded During Government Summits with Right-Wing Media Chiefs
The Government claims there is ‘no requirement’ to record the minutes of informal meetings between ministers and the media, reports Sam Bright
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Kremlin Welcomed Evgeny Lebedev Peerage
Sam Bright reveals how the Russian Ambassador to the UK claimed the owner of the Independent and Evening Standard had “much contributed to strengthening Russian-British relations”
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New GB News Director is a Tory Peer and Financier
Invited to Rwanda by Suella Braverman and backed by wealthy Conservatives, the broadcaster’s ‘anti-establishment’ credentials are waning
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‘A Blank Cheque Placed in the Hands of Ministers’: Lords Slam Government’s Plan to ‘Sunset’ Thousands of EU Laws
One of the central promises of Brexit is being violated by the Government, a new report has suggested
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Hundreds of ‘Toxic’ North Sea Oil Spills Since 2019
Sam Bright reports on the scale of pollution being pumped into the North Sea
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Minutes of Boris Johnson Meeting with Cambridge Analytica ‘Would Directly Undermine Trust Between the UK and US’
UK-US relations would be harmed by the details of Johnson’s summit with the now-disgraced data firm, an independent regulator has concluded
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Nadhim Zahawi’s Tory Leadership Bid Funded by Offshore-Linked Investor
The then-Chancellor was given more than £60,000 by an individual listed in the Paradise Papers
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‘Our Economic Masters Failed on Their Own Terms’: Health of Deprived Areas Stuck in Previous Decades
The NHS is being burdened by the scale of Britain’s health inequalities, reports Sam Bright
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‘Farcical’: Government Slammed for Pledging Millions in ‘Levelling Up’ Funding to Tackle Dover Brexit Queues
Money promised to deprived areas after Brexit is instead being used to deal with the aftershocks of leaving the EU, reports Sam Bright
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Special Investigation: The Vested Private Interests Behind Westminster’s Influential Lobbying Groups
Sam Bright investigates a murky aspect of our political system, where landlords fund private rental research and fossil fuel firms donate to environmental groups
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Senior Government Figures Meet with Lobbying Group Funded by Private Healthcare while NHS Crisis Continues
Sam Bright reports on the influence held by a parliamentary lobbying group backed by private health interests
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The NHS and Brexit: What We Now Know
Sam Bright examines the contribution of Brexit to our current healthcare crisis
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Conservative Party Propped Up by Financiers, Property Developers and Fossil Fuel Interests
Bankers have contributed a-third of the party’s income over recent months, amid plans to remove the cap on their bonuses, reports Sam Bright
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‘We Are Not Done’: Conservatives Remain in Thrall to Tufton Street
Sam Bright reports on the Conservative Party’s enduring alliance with the libertarian lobbying groups that ‘crashed the economy’
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MPs Advocate for NHS Privatisation While Being Funded by Private Health Firms
Sam Bright investigates how a parliamentary lobbying group on healthcare has been backed by private interests
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Gove and Hancock Rewriting the Record With PPE ‘Bullying’ Claims
All the evidence indicates that senior Cabinet ministers facilitated the awarding of COVID contracts to favoured suppliers, reports Sam Bright
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Gordon Brown: Government Most Corrupt in ‘At Least a Century’
Sam Bright inspects the former Prime Minister’s plans to rewire British politics
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British Private Schools Earn Millions Tax-Free from Schools in States that Criminalise Homosexuality
Sam Bright investigates the untaxed income earned by these schools in anti-LGBT states
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‘VIP’ Firms Referred by Tory MPs and Peers for PPE Deals See Profits Soar
Hundreds of millions of pounds have been earned by companies channelled through the expedited procurement route by Conservative politicians, Sam Bright reports
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Anatomy of the PPE Procurement Scandal
Sam Bright dissects the multi-billion-pound affair that saw lucrative public contracts awarded to Conservative donors
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A City Caught Between Industrial Change and Climate Change
Sam Bright examines how Britain can learn from the city of Groningen in the Netherlands, and how our recent political history provides a warning to the Dutch establishment
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European Research Group Loses Two-Thirds of its Paid-Up Members
The hard-Brexit lobbying group, which produces research paid for by taxpayer-funded expenses, appears to be losing support
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The Financial Takeover of Government
Sam Bright explores how the masters of high finance have been welcomed into the heart of power
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Kemi Badenoch Carries on Liz Truss’ Tufton Street Traditions
The International Trade Secretary is due to speak at a Koch-founded libertarian ‘think tank’, reports Sam Bright
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Sunak Appoints Ex-Big Energy Director as Business and Energy Advisor
Rishi Sunak’s Government is populated by a number of advisors drawn from corporations and Tufton Street ‘think tanks’, reports Sam Bright
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Rishi Sunak Appoints Donor as Policy Chief
One of the most senior figures in Downing Street recently gave £20,000 to the new Prime Minister
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Conservative MP Takes £60,000 Job at Firm Linked to Tax Haven
Another parliamentarian has gained lucrative employment outside Westminster, reports Sam Bright
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Are We Paying for the Government’s COVID Waste?
UK healthcare spending has burgeoned by £50 billion since the pandemic, the same figure as the Government’s mysterious fiscal ‘black hole’, reports Sam Bright
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Government Announces £26 Million Funding for Firm Owned by Tory Donor
The owner of the company belongs to a family that has donated millions to the Conservative Party in recent years, reports Sam Bright
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Child Poverty Soared During Austerity Years in New Cabinet’s Constituencies
Past evidence shows the damage that spending cuts can create – even in Conservative strongholds
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‘The Tufton Street Mindset Will Endure Under Rishi Sunak’
Sam Bright warns that, despite crashing the economy, dark money libertarian groups will retain influence on the new Prime Minister
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Conservative MP Gets Promotion at Energy Firm He Was Called to Resign From
Mark Pritchard has been handed a new, upgraded title, weeks after he was warned to quit the £46,800-a-year role
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Britannia Unchained Review: Imperial Nostalgia and the Unravelling of Social Progress
Sam Bright unpicks the Truss-Kwarteng manifesto, finding a worrying obsession with Britain’s distant economic past
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The Tentacles of Tufton Street: Think Tank Alumni Handed Top Government Roles
Graduates of opaquely-funded libertarian think tanks are now scattered across Whitehall, reveals Sam Bright
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‘The Iceberg Heading Straight Towards the Government is Housing Market Crash’
Experts explain how ‘the wheels could come off’ the British economy as a result of Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng’s reckless approach, reports Sam Bright
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The Tufton Street Elite Takes Back Control of the Brexit Project
The libertarian ideologues in Downing Street are taking a hammer to Boris Johnson’s Brexit coalition, says Sam Bright
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An Alternative Budget: How Much Could be Raised Through Wealth and Profit Taxes?
Sam Bright considers the benefits of taxing the richest people and corporations
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Government Refuses to Release Correspondence Sent to The Times Over Axed Carrie Johnson Story
Under pressure from Downing Street, the newspaper withdrew a story about Carrie Johnson being offered a lucrative role by her future husband when he was Foreign Secretary
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Do Tax Cuts for the Rich Boost Growth? This New Study Says Not
Liz Truss’ proposal to end the cap on bankers’ bonuses is unlikely to spur economic growth, reports Sam Bright
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Why the ‘Culture War’ Will Intensify Under Liz Truss
Sam Bright explores the forces propelling the escalating demonisation of ‘woke’ Britain
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Elite Rule: Liz Truss’ Socially Exclusive Cabinet
Sam Bright examines the CVs of the new top Government appointments and finds they very much contradict the Prime Minister’s rhetoric of ‘meritocracy’
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Lisa Nandy: Conservative ‘Levelling Up’ Promises have been ‘Outright Lie’
Boris Johnson’s flagship regional redistribution project has stalled and Liz Truss is likely to send it into reverse, writes Sam Bright
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Liz Truss’ Claim About Productivity of Workers Outside London is Economically Illiterate
The Conservative frontrunner’s belief that Londoners simply “graft” harder than people outside the capital does not stand up against evidence on regional inequalities, says Sam Bright
