SubscriptionsCategory: UK Politics
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Care Leavers Attending University are Being Made Homeless by Their Local Authorities
Young people leaving care in England are losing their right to local authority housing – because they’re trying to better themselves at university
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Special Investigation: Society’s Reluctance to Acknowledge the Scale of Child Sexual Abuse and a Lack of Political Support for Its Survivors is Keeping the Vulnerable At Risk
Part Four: The far-right is able to present itself as ‘filling the gap’ left by a lack of services with its own range of ‘support’ for survivors
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Special Investigation: ‘Muslim Grooming Gangs’ – An Old Conspiracy Mainstreamed by Today’s Politicians and Press
Part Three: In 2020, a two-year study of crime data and academic research by the Home Office concluded that ‘group-based offenders are most commonly white’
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Special Investigation: The Network of Far-Right Groups Exploiting the Survivors of Child Sexual Exploitation
Part Two: The interconnectedness of far-right groups reflects the extent to which those holding extreme beliefs have used the issue of child sexual exploitation to further their own ends
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Special Investigation: ‘The Far-Right Is Cynically Taking Advantage of Child Sexual Exploitation Survivors’
Andrew Kersley spent five months speaking to survivors of child sexual exploitation and experts on the ‘grooming’ of vulnerable women by far-right groups to understand why it is happening
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Fears of Mass Exclusion of Young Voters as Poll Reveals Numbers of 18-24 Year Olds Who Don’t Know About New Photo ID Rules
Young people, those with few qualifications, and voters in Scotland are least aware of new voter ID rules
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Conservative Deputy Chair Jonathan Gullis Took £10,000 From JCB – Then Stayed Silent Over Company’s job Loss Announcement
The MP for Stoke-on-Trent North didn’t comment on potential job cuts at the digger giant but called an “urgent” meeting with the Business Secretary over the closure of Johnson Tiles amid claims his “silence was bought”
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The Big Questions Nigel Farage Should be Asked by the Media
Why is a party with so few elected representatives and even fewer ideas being given such an easy ride?
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Anti-Racism Group Reveals MPs It’s Seeking to Boot Out – Including Lee Anderson and George Galloway
MPs who stoke “culture wars” face on-the-ground campaigns and targeted ads from Hope Not Hate
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UK Government Accused of Allowing Georgia’s ‘Pro-Russian’ Drift After Foreign Influence Law Passed
The Conservatives said they had no idea a UK-backed Georgian communications unit was using trolls to attack opponents and spread anti-Western disinformation. A source claims the former Foreign Secretary was informed last March
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Rwanda: Home Office Slammed for Having ‘No Credible Plan and Making Unacceptable and Avoidable Mistakes’
The Government has spent £310 million on the Rwanda scheme – and Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says there will be no flights before polling day – meaning they may never happen
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How Climate Change Went From a Hot Political Issue to a Tool to ‘Divide and Polarise’ the Public in Just Five Years
Climate leadership is not the vote loser its opponents like to portray it as – but the danger for the climate movement is assuming public support will endure forever, argues Russell Warfield
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‘Only a Bold Vision from Labour Will Restore Any Faith in Our Broken Politics’
Jennifer Nadel, co-founder of Compassion in Politics, argues that Westminster’s dysfunctional system under a potential Labour government could leave the door open to far-right politics in the years ahead
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Rwanda Bill ‘Breached Government’s Own Rules on Publishing Evidence’, Report Finds
A transparency review by Sense about Science has found that three out of six policy measures failed to meet the test of whether a motivated citizen can see what evidence the Government has used or assessed in its decision-making
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Liz Truss Claims Labour Party is ‘In Hock’ to Terrorists in Conspiracy Laden Rant on Fringe Right-Wing Talk Show
As Rishi Sunak faces calls to strip her of the whip, Liz Truss claims without evidence that ceasefire protests are funded by authoritarian states, amid a litany of strange proposals
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‘Diane Abbott’s Treatment Raises Big Concerns About Racism and Factionalism in the Labour Party’
Labour figures from across Keir Starmer’s party are furious about her treatment by the leadership
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‘This General Election Will be the Dirtiest But Most Sophisticated Campaign So Far – Don’t be Fooled’
The Conservative “machine” will target voters with messages that speak to them, which appear to come from sources they trust. Here’s what to watch out for
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Conservative Tunbridge Wells Hopeful Iain Dale Said He ‘Never Liked the Place’ and ‘Would Happily Live Somewhere Else’
The LBC presenter has announced he is quitting the station in a bid to stand for the Conservative party in the general election
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‘BBC Hopes to Remind Viewers of its Tradition of Authoritative Journalism By Having Clive Myrie Join Laura Kuenssberg for its Election Night Coverage’
Having a figure such as Kuenssberg in such a prominent position during the upheavals of the past 14 years helped the BBC appease its implacable Conservative enemies, writes former BBC producer and journalist Patrick Howse
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MP Demands Liz Truss is Barred as Conservative Candidate as Former PM Appears on Far-Right Podcast
Labour MP writes to PM Sunak over Liz Truss appearing on Lotus Eaters, a show founded by Carl Benjamin, who stated he “wouldn’t even rape” her
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Rich Claim Most Rishi Sunak Heat Pump Subsidies in ‘Concerning’ Trend as Government Delays Home Decarbonisation
Over 7000 people applied for the upgraded £7500 grant to scrap their gas boiler and replace it with a heat pump in the South East compared to just over 1,000 in the North East
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Nine ‘Dismal’ Government Failings on the Environment Exposed by Green Group
This General Election will be “pivotal for people and the planet” as ‘MP Watch’ election campaign targeting climate action ‘delayers’ launched
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Government Accused of Investing in Hydrogen Infrastructure That ‘Doesn’t Work, Makes no Sense and Isn’t a Green Solution’
The people and companies behind the controversial hydrogen lobby winning tens of millions in funding – including one key player also making huge donations to Conservatives
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Suella Braverman Joins Steve Bannon as Headline Speaker at US National Conservatism Conference
This will be the MP’s third appearance at the conference and comes after Liz Truss was heavily criticised for her interview with Bannon
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Adam Crozier: Post Office Boss at Time of Scandal ‘Falsified Sales Returns’ in Previous Job
Adam Crozier came close to losing his job at The Telegraph in 1987 after changing advertising records to “enhance” his reputation
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Report on Closure of Private School is ‘Attempt by Conservative Establishment to Scare Voters Away From Labour – and has Nothing to do With Party’s VAT Payment Plans’
Alton School is closing due to a “continued decline in pupil numbers” and years of financial challenges, yet the closure is being reported in connection with Labour plans to introduce a 20% VAT levy on private school fees
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Prime Minister Told to ‘Defend the UK’s Democracy’ by Leading Security Body, Amid Russian Interference Warning
Rishi Sunak is being warned of Russian interference during this election, from the highest levels. But there is little time to act
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‘Journalists Aren’t Asking the Right Questions On Why the Metropolitan Police is Such a Failing Institution’
The latest episode of the hit Media Storm podcast focuses on how the press frames our damaging and discriminatory policing culture
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How Ofcom’s Broadcasting Code Revisions Are Anything But – And Why Allowing GB News to Cover the General Election is ‘Terrifying’
Ofcom’s attempt at addressing concerns has resulted in ‘no substantive changes’ – but it now says it is considering sanctions against GB News for breaking impartiality rules
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Court Case Backlog Worse Now than Before £477 Million Investment to Curb Delays, New Report Reveals
National Audit Office figures show MoJ way off target of reducing court case backlog by more than 14,000 cases and more than 6,000 are two years or more old
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Veteran Blocked From Using Army ID to Vote ‘Was Veterans Minister Johnny Mercer’s Sergeant Major’ in Afghanistan
Adam Diver became embroiled in a row with the minister after Mercer branded a Tweet about him being denied a vote as “fake news from a fake bloke”
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‘Rishi Sunak Claimed Inflation is Back to Normal and Brighter Days are Ahead – he’s Completely Wrong About Both’
On the same day the government was talking up its inflation “success” it launched a domestic emergency preparedness plan, suggesting households stock op on essentials
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Vast Majority of Those Turned Away Over Voter ID in Local Elections Were ‘Non-White’ According to Polling Station Observers
The figure has surged compared to last year’s local elections, raising concerns over discrimination, the UK’s leading election monitoring group has warned
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Rishi Sunak Takes Staged Election Questions from Conservative Councillors Posing as Ordinary Voters
The Prime Minister thanked the hi-vis jacket-wearing men for their “important” questions without declaring that they were local Conservative Councillors Ross Hills and Ben Hall-Evans
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Rishi Sunak Says no Rwanda Flights Will Take Off Before General Election – Spelling Likely Death of Toxic Scheme
The Prime Minister’s admission means the Government’s “dream” of sending refugees to the brutal Rwandan dictatorship looks all but over
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Conservative Politicians and Press ‘Driving Spike’ in Disinformation on Low Traffic Neighbourhoods and 15-Minute Cities, Report Finds
A landmark study on the LTN policy finds that Government figures have latched onto cynical fear-mongering
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The Spectacle of Impunity: Phone-Hacking Cover-Up Claims Cross the Atlantic
With news that senior Murdoch executives now face a civil trial, Peter Jukes looks back on a decade of deceit
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Stop the Student Votes: Leaked Memo Exposes the Real Purpose of Voter ID
The leaked memo reveals Downing Street feared letting veterans use their veteran IDs would “open the floodgates” to also making it easier for students to vote
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Government ‘Anti-Extremism’ Protest Report Launched in Westminster by Think Tank with Ties to US Hard Right
The Counter Extremism Group has close ties both to Government – and to hard-right think tanks
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Sunak’s ‘Anti-Extremism’ Adviser Demands Protest Bans to Protect Defence and Energy Firms While Working as Lobbyist for Arms and Fossil Fuel Industry Groups
Lord Walney’s proposals would impose an effective ban on certain protest groups while handing police forces the power to outlaw regular Gaza protests
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Julian Assange’s Wife Urges Joe Biden to Drop Pursuit of Husband as he Wins Right to Appeal US Extradition
The Australian Prime Minister has urged Biden to let the WikiLeaks founder return home, as he waits in London’s Belmarsh prison for his next court hearing
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Government Spends Billions on Border and Custom Controls Still Incomplete Three Years After Brexit
No final date has been set for when ‘the most effective border in the world’ will be fully operational, according to a new report by the National Audit Office
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Two Million Brits Suffer Long Covid and a Third Have Had it for More Than Three Years – yet Pleas for Extra Funding Rejected
Groups representing UK sufferers are “very disappointed” as the US recently allocated another $515 million in research funding for what it called an “urgent healthcare crisis”
