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2024 In Review: The Year The Tory Story Ended
Russell Jones looks back at how the ‘worst parliament in history’ came to its calamitous conclusion
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Conservative MPs Want to Scrap Workers’ Rights to Paid Holiday and Annual Leave
They are also seeking to overturn workplace protections from sexual harassment, calling them an attack on “free speech”
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‘Litany of Failures’ Exposed by Damning Report Revealing Huge Scale of Conservative Prisons Crisis Inherited by Keir Starmer
Just 5% of the additional prison places promised by Conservative ministers in 2016 have been delivered
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Rishi Sunak Accused of Having ‘Something to Hide’ After Burying Post-Downing Street Interests Behind Financial ‘Firewall’
The former PM and his wife, whose combined wealth is estimated at £651 million, have set up an opaque new arrangement, preventing any scrutiny of their ongoing finances
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The Sheer Scale of the Conservative Local Government Auditing Scandal Is Only Now Becoming Clear
Billions of pounds in spending remains unaccounted for, with the National Audit Office unable to sign off the nation’s accounts
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Amerexit: Oligarchy Comes to the United States
Peter Jukes in the December Print Edition of Byline Times
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Kemi Badenoch and Shadow Net Zero Secretary Funded by Backers of Tufton Street Climate Science Denial Group
The Conservative party leader and several leading members of her new Shadow Cabinet have ties to the opaquely-funded group campaigning against plans to reach Net Zero
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Kemi Badenoch Told to Face up to Conservatives’ Democratic Failings After Years of Sleaze and Rule-Breaking
The Conservative Party’s new leader has appointed a series of Shadow Cabinet ministers whose Government records were clouded in scandal
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Why Some Labour MPs Fear a Kemi Badenoch led Conservative Party
The Conservative Party’s new leader has the potential to do a lot of damage, whether or not she wins the next general election
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Kemi Badenoch Uncovered: Deregulation, Small-State Capitalism and Culture War Conservatism
The new Conservative Leader combines culture war politics with a deregulation agenda that would set the country back decades, Jon Bloomfield and David Edgar report
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Who is Neil Record? Meet the Climate Change Sceptic Think-Tanker Bankrolling Kemi Badenoch’s Campaign
Conservative leadership favourite Kemi Badenoch is running her campaign from the home of a wealthy Tufton Street donor
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Robert Jenrick Accepted £25,000 Donation from Firm Controlled by Sanctioned Oligarch
The Conservative leadership candidate received the money from a company controlled by billionaire Sir Len Blavatnik – who has been sanctioned by the Ukrainian government
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Robert Jenrick Accepts Donations from ‘Family Friend’ Who Ships Arms to Israel
The Conservative leadership hopeful has received large donations from Quantum Pacific corporation, which is owned by Idan Ofer who featured in an earlier lobbying scandal involving the MP
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‘Darkly Comic’: Former Conservative Chairman Calls for Electoral Reform… But Only for His Party, After Leadership Voting Debacle
Is it one rule for them and another for everyone else?
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Kemi Badenoch’s Plans are a Mirror Image of Donald Trump Backers’ ‘Project 2025’ Agenda
The Conservative leadership candidate plans to dismantle Britain’s institutions, in a hard-right overhaul that echoes that of Trump supporters in the US
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The Conservative Party is Loving Opposition – Which is Exactly Why They Will Stay There
The Conservative leadership candidates are embracing the freedom of losing all power and responsibility, with inevitable consequences
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Robert Jenrick’s Special Forces Comments Expose a ‘Desire to Tear up UK’s Commitment to Protect Basic Rights and Freedoms’
The Conservative leadership frontrunner has caused widespread outrage after claiming that Human Rights laws are forcing British special forces to kill rather than detain suspected terrorists
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Conservative Frontrunner Robert Jenrick Plans to ‘Win a Culture War’ with Young People
The favourite to succeed Rishi Sunak as Conservative party leader plans to launch an “air war” with younger voters
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GB News Spent Half a Million Mainly on Right Wing MPs – Nearly Half on the Reform Party
11 MPs have been paid over £500,000 by the channel over the past year, with £200,000 going to just two Reform Party MPs
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‘Scrap Callous Photo ID Scheme’ Campaigners Demand as Report Reveals Scale of Voter Suppression
Three quarters of a million people didn’t vote because of the “continued failure of the voter ID regime”
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Smoking Ban: The Conservative Party Suffers a Severe Case of Smoke-Induced Amnesia
From smoking, to taxes, to cronyism, Rishi Sunak’s party is desperate for us to forget everything that happened until just last month
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Conservative Party Membership May have Dropped Below 100,000 as Supporter Income Plummets
The figures do not bode well for Rishi Sunak’s party
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‘Rushed’ Airport Sell-Off Sparks Anger as Councils Push Through Privatisation to Plug Shortfalls
Concern is growing over a Conservative-led council’s opaque plans to privatise Cornwall Newquay Airport. It’s part of a bigger picture across England
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‘How the Conservative Party Helped Cause the Riots and why Their Islamophobic Rhetoric Won’t Change’
Ironically, the riots during a leadership election give the party a unique opportunity to turn a page and turn their back on Farage-type populism. The signs are they will not take that opportunity
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Ousted MP Liz Truss Accused of Being in ‘Denial’ About Defeat as she ‘Clings to Constituent Casework’
Defeated Ex-PM Liz Truss is apparently refusing to hand over issues she was dealing with as a Norfolk MP to her Labour successor
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The UK’s Race Riots: A Trial Run for Another US Insurrection?
Peter Jukes draws out the connections between the violence on Britain’s streets and the Capitol Insurrection
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‘I Predict A Riot: The Manufacturing of Islamophobic and Anti-Migrant Hate On Our Streets’
We must be honest about the fact that it is not only fringe rabble-rousers who have engaged in this damaging rhetoric, writes Adeeb Ayton
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Conservatives Risk Another Chris Pincher-Style Sleaze Scandal Over Claims New Tory MP Is ‘Serial Groper and Bully’
The allegations could be a ‘huge headache’ for the Conservative Party as it tries to move on from the scandals of its recent past
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Sunak’s Government Did Not Know How Schools Spent £9.2 Billion a Year Allocated to Help Disadvantaged Children
‘There has been a lack of sustained progress by government in reducing the attainment gap between disadvantaged children and their peers’, a new report by the National Audit Office has found
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The Blue Wall’s Green Revolt: Conservative Support Eroded in Election Due To Weakening Climate Commitments
Almost half of voters in the 251 seats lost by the Conservatives in the 2024 General Election believed that the Government should not have abandoned its net zero policy commitments
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Trump’s Running Mate JD Vance Says UK is an ‘Islamist Country’ and he Wants US to Abandon Ukraine
Trump’s selection of an anti-Ukrainian, anti-British politician for Vice President, means the UK must urgently look to Europe for our security
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Conservative Party ‘Reminded of the Need to Comply with the Law’ After Sending Fake Sadiq Khan ‘Driving Charge’ Notices
EXCLUSIVE: The Information Commissioner rebuked the Conservatives after they sent out thousands of leaflets which tricked voters into handing over their personal data
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The Unpopular ‘Popular Conservatives’ Blame the Voters for Their Own Defeat
The ‘Popular Conservatism’ Conference exposed a party firmly stuck in conspiracy-driven denial about why it just suffered the worst electoral defeat in its history
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The Longest Suicide Note in History: How Britain Rejected the Conservative Hard Right
Rishi Sunak’s historic defeat was a direct result of a decade of ideological hard-right policies that have decimated our political and social fabric
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IT’S OVER
Labour has won the 2024 General Election. Let’s take a look back at the multiple crises successive Conservative administrations worsened, created or ignored
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Labour and ‘Negative Cohesion’: Who’s Afraid of Starmageddon?
The Conservatives are about to pay the price for 14 years of epic misrule. But while a Labour ‘supermajority’ is in the best interests of the country, it is no guarantee of a return to stability, argues Simon Nixon
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‘Wales Could Lead the Way Across the Globe if it Criminalises Political Lying’
A dishonest doctor gets struck off the medical register. The banker who steals from his clients goes to jail. A deceitful military officer gets cashiered. Why should politicians not expect to play by the same rules?
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A Tale of Two Very Different Debates: Biden and Trump’s Horror Show, Sunak and Starmer’s No Surprises
From lies, incompetence, porn, and golfing bravo in the US – to dull and boring, with a side of rude and shouty in the UK
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Conservative Party Blitzes Facebook with Hundreds of ‘Desperate’ Campaign Adverts Falsely Claiming Labour Plans to Hit Drivers With a ‘National ULEZ’
Rishi Sunak’s party has been accused of lying to the public after posing as independent fact checkers during the BBC Leaders Debate
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The Veteran’s Vendetta: ‘Why Johnny Mercer’s Attacks on a Former Serviceman and Political Rival Are So Problematic’
Mercer has said it is the ‘long-standing policy of successive governments not to comment on the activities of our Special Forces’ – but expects his political rival, Fred Thomas, to deviate from it
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New Parliament To Be Loaded with MPs From Water Industry – Amid Concerns ‘Bias’ Won’t Help Combat Sewage Discharges
‘There is a long history of industry leaders and lobbyists becoming politicians. In principle, this can be beneficial – but rarely is’
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The Conservatives Claim a Website Design Firm They Handed £100,000 in Taxpayer Cash is ‘Independent’ but it’s Listed at an Address Owned by a CCHQ Staffer
Records seen by Byline Times throw doubt on the party’s claims about the tech firm employed by Conservative MPs
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The 1900 Club and the Conservative Party: An Inside Look at the Secretive ‘Dining Club That Does More Than Dine’
A recently unearthed booklet on The 1900 Club sheds some light on the history of the organisation and its ties to the Conservative Party
