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Rishi Sunak Says it’s ‘Time for a Change’ and the King’s Speech Confirms He Won’t Deliver it
The Prime Minister’s flimsy new government programme suggests he leads a Government that is fresh out of ideas
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Conservative Government’s Rhetoric on Palestine Protests is ‘Stoking Far-Right Threat’ and Putting ‘Fundamental Rights at Risk’
Organisers believe the Met Police is being strong-armed into opposing the Gaza protests.
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‘Despite the Headlines and Handshakes, We Are No More Prepared for the Tidal Wave of AI’
Tackling the issue will require global cooperation and legislative policies – but advancing from non-binding commitments can take decades, writes Emma DeSouza
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Rail Union Condemns ‘30 Years of Waste’ as England Marks Three Decades of Privatisation
Renationalising the railways remains highly popular amid transport delays, cancellations, expensive fares and strikes.
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Rishi Sunak Trashed the UK’s Entire Climate Change Strategy for Nothing
New polling shows the Conservatives are set to lose big to Sadiq Khan in next year’s London mayoral election, despite Sunak’s attempts to weaponise, anti-green, anti-ULEZ votes
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Time to Tackle ‘Dark Money’ in Politics – As Voters Demand Transparency Over Britain’s Opaque Think Tanks
We know very little about the funding for many of the UK’s leading think tanks – but a new report sheds some light
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Why Are the Conservatives in a ‘Union’ with Viktor Orbán and Narendra Modi?
Peter Geoghegan examines the membership and funding of the International Democracy Union.
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Halloween at the Coronavirus Hearing: ‘Boris Johnson’s Contempt for the Old and At-Risk’
David Oliver gives a physician’s view of the Covid-19 Inquiry evidence and what it reveals about the Conservative Government
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Conservative Think Tank Urges Sunak to Sabotage Labour Plans for Electoral and Political Reform
The opaquely-funded group has close links to the Prime Minister
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Early Signs Show Sadiq Khan’s Expanded Ultra Low Emissions Zone is Working – and the Culture Warriors Have Gone Quiet
It was meant to be a disaster, but the doomsayers appear to be in retreat.
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The Media, Johnson and Covid: ‘An Orgy of Narcissism’ that Killed Thousands
As the Covid Inquiry has revealed, Boris Johnson and Dominic Cummings are morbid symptoms of a sick system. At the heart of that sickness is the media
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Boris Johnson’s Covid Catastrophe Has Exposed the Tragic Deference and Negligence of British Politics
Damning evidence from the Covid Inquiry reveals how the former PM was enabled by a system determined to look the other way, reports Adam Bienkov
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Johnson and Williamson Ignored COVID Safety Warnings in Schools as Ministers ‘Didn’t Want to Give an Inch to Unions’
England was the last of the four nations to require masks in schools following heavy resistance from the then Prime Minister and Education Secretary
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‘We Do Want a General Election’, Voters Tell Conservatives – As Majority Think Life has Got Worse Under Sunak
Voters want Rishi Sunak to be a ‘short-term Prime Minister’ new polling suggests
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Why Did Boris Johnson Meet Evgeny Lebedev Twice in Days Before First COVID Lockdown – With No Civil Servants Present?
The then Prime Minister held unminuted meetings with the press baron he later elevated to the House of Lords despite security concerns
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Tim Davie and the Tory Backbenchers: ‘There’s No Longer Any Pretence BBC’s Reputation for Impartiality Matters to the Corporation’s Leadership’
Former BBC reporter and producer Patrick Howse explores the damage done to the broadcaster in its attempts to appease enemies that want it destroyed
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Government Rejects Voters’ Calls to Make Lying to Parliament a Crime, Over ‘Freedom of Speech’ Fears
Lying to a court is a crime with a prison sentence. Lying to Parliament can lead to a temporary suspension.
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New Cash for Buses Means Little if Councils Remain Stripped of Power by Westminster
Councils are at the whim of multinational transport firms when it comes to local transport
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‘There’s No Votes Left’: The Conservatives Are Stuck in Denial After Huge By-Election Defeats
Conservative Chairman Greg Hands claims the record-breaking defeats do not suggest voters are at all unhappy with the Prime Minister
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Former Conservative Party Chair Baroness Sayeeda Warsi to Argue ‘Muslims Don’t Matter’ to Politicians and Media in Damning Speech
Amid rising attacks on Muslims in the UK, the former Faith Minister launches a thinly-veiled broadside against Sunak’s Government, and calls for a new civil rights movement in Britain
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Carnage in Gaza: What Really Happened at the Al-Ahli Hospital?
Peter Oborne reports from East Jerusalem on last night’s deadly attack on an Anglican-run hospital in Gaza
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‘Farcical’: Disbelief as Disgraced Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson is Appointed as ‘Democracy Union’ Adviser
Johnson was found to have unlawfully suspended Parliament and lied to MPs.
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Of Barges and Banishments: What the Bibby Stockholm Reveals About Our Dark History
Suella Braverman’s asylum barges are tied up with Britain’s imperial past, writes Iain Overton
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Rishi Sunak is an ‘Upper Class’ Leader of an ‘Elite’ and ‘Out of Touch’ Party, Say Voters
Exclusive new polling finds voters are not convinced by the Prime Minister’s party conference claim to represent ordinary people’s concerns, Adam Bienkov reports
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Keir Starmer’s ‘Safety First’ Strategy is Starting to Worry Some of His Supporters
The Labour leader has repeatedly defied his critics, but can his ultra cautious approach really take the party back into Government unscathed?
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‘Keir Starmer’s Authoritarian Approach to Politics Risks Stifling a Labour Government’
The Labour leader’s labelling of those who disagree with him as ‘unBritish’ is a worrying sign of things to come, argues his former adviser Simon Fletcher
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Sunak’s Conference Speech: A Desperate Leader Without Any Plan
The Prime Minister knows that he has not shown any great vision of what he believes or how he wants Britain to look, writes Jonathan Lis
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Tory Party Chair Greg Hands in Apparent Data Breach Tweeting Praise for Sunak from Conservative Constituents
It’s an embarrassing gaffe for the supposed party of security.
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‘GB News, Grooming Gangs and Suella Braverman’s Racialised Tropes’
Why were sufficient numbers not outraged when the troubled broadcaster was giving a platform to dangerous views claiming Pakistani men are the main perpetrators of this form of child sexual abuse?
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Government Slammed Over ‘Chilling’ Warning Shot to Media Outlets Over Russell Brand Coverage
“A Legal Officer’s duty is to apply the law, not to interfere with the editorial decisions of a free press,” standards body Impress said in a letter to the Government.
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Liz Truss Suggested Settling Group of Sri Lankan Families Stranded on British Indian Ocean Territory in UK to ‘Prevent Mass Suicide’
As Foreign Secretary, Truss warned that the Government risked failing in its duty of care for the group which included at least 20 children
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The Conservative Party Conference Embraces Trumpism Without Trump
Rishi Sunak’s reckless attempts to mimic the political tactics of the radical Republican right led to some ugly scenes at his party’s conference in Manchester, reports Adam Bienkov
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‘The Conservatives are Flogging Our Collective Environmental Security’
By backing ambitious and transformative environmental policies, Labour could offer a clear vision for substantive change, writes the CEO of the Environmental Justice Foundation
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The Conservative Party’s Conspiracist Right Takes Over in Manchester
Rishi Sunak’s Party is placing itself in opposition not just to its own record, but to observable reality itself, reports Adam Bienkov
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Revealed: Former MPs Used Parliament Access Passes Over 3,000 times
This is the last time you’ll ever know about ex-MPs who lobby for nuclear, gambling and energy industries visiting Parliament – because Jacob Rees Mogg had all the data destroyed
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‘The UN Refugee Convention Should Be Reformed – But Not in the Way Suella Braverman Thinks’
The UK could show global leadership by pushing for the international community to broaden its definition of refugees, writes former British diplomat Alexandra Hall Hall
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US Sanctions Rwanda Over Child Soldiers – As UK Sings President Kagame’s Praises
The latest sanctions stand in stark contrast to the UK Government’s often inaccurate descriptions of life in Rwanda, where it plans to send some asylum seekers
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Sunak on Net Zero: Desperate, Cynical and Doomed to Fail
The climate was the one last issue on which Britain could credibly claim a degree of global leadership – the Conservatives’ cheap electioneering has shattered that
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‘Sunak’s Climate Failure is Even Worse Than You Think’
The Prime Minister’s abandonment of a series of climate pledges hides a much bigger failure, writes Rachel Donald
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Sunak’s Government Condemned for Failing to Either Build New Homes or Protect the Environment
The Government’s commitment to build more homes, while protecting wildlife from deadly pollutants is “failing to deliver for either side”
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‘Sunak’s Climate Betrayal is a Retreat Into the Politics of Unpopulism’
The Prime Minister is abandoning a popular green agenda in order to benefit a shrinking minority of voters, writes Josiah Mortimer
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Migration Policy Mired in Hyperbolic Rhetoric Won’t Help if it’s Targeted at the Wrong People
If the West really wants to end migration, there is a solution: spend more money in the countries migrants are fleeing.
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Rishi Sunak Should End His ‘War on Woke’, Say Voters
Exclusive new poll finds the public is far more tolerant of diversity and cultural change than the Government appears to believe, Adam Bienkov reports
