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How Rishi Sunak Cooked the Books With his Defence Spending Pledge
The Prime Minister has gathered huge plaudits from supportive newspapers for his pledge to increase defence spending, while using numbers that simply don’t add up
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Policy Exchange Insider Labour MP Who Attacked Islamophobia Definition Privately Told Baroness Warsi Think Tank is ‘Dangerous’
Leaked WhatsApp messages between the Conservative peer Baroness Sayeeda Warsi and Khalid Mahmood MP reveal distrust of the think tank, which has links to a ‘white genocide’ believer
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‘This Discrimination has to Stop’: Parents Protest at Parliament Over Free Childcare that Excludes 20,000 Families
Parents denied Government support want to work but employment often barely covers their childcare costs and leaves them with no options
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Government Urged to Drop Data Protection Reforms Which May Make Children an Easy Target
An open letter has been sent to Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, Michelle Donelan, urging her to ditch the bill which is back before the House of Lords today
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‘With his Poll Ratings Sinking, Sunak Goes For One More Attempt at Scapegoating the Vulnerable: The “Skivers” Revisited’
The Prime Minister’s announcements on sickness and disability benefits were not just another assault on an already punitive welfare system – they were nuclear-level gaslighting, writes Mary O’Hara
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‘Back Door into Student Loan System for Organised Fraudsters Left Hanging Wide Open’
A new report by the Public Accounts Committee found that a lack of government oversight of the system is leaving it open to significant amounts of fraud
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Conservative Campaign Takes Surreal Turn as Party Appears to Ditch its own Colour, Logo and Name in ‘Fake Newspapers’
Red leaflets posing as newspapers have been landing on doorsteps ahead of the local elections – but there’s little mention of the party behind them
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‘The Prayer Ban at Michaela Community School Will Not Set a Landmark Precedent’
The CEO of the Islamophobia Response Unit sets out the significance of the High Court’s ruling being made in a very specific context of one school’s strict behavioural regime
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Zero Fines Handed to Russia-Linked Kleptocrats or Firms by UK Since Full-Scale Ukraine War Began
It comes despite hundreds of suspected breaches of sanctions since 2022
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Ofcom Confirms GB News Is Not Being Held to Different Rules on Impartiality
Julian Petley and the Good Law Project informed the broadcast regulator that it would apply for judicial review of its approach to the controversial channel unless it made clear the same rules apply to it
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Special Report: Our Society’s ‘Non-Human’ Population – A National Scandal Ignored
Hardeep Matharu, Editor of Byline Times, explains why the May 2024 print edition focuses on the denial of human rights and basic care to people with learning disabilities
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Rishi Sunak’s Rwandan Nightmare is Pushing His Government Beyond Reason
The Prime Minister’s immoral and obscenely expensive plan will only end in tears for everyone involved
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Special Investigation: The Far-Right Grooming of Survivors of Child Sexual Exploitation
Hardeep Matharu, Editor of Byline Times, explains why the cover story of the May 2024 print edition is one which must urgently be told
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Anti-Monarchy Activists Prepare to Mark Year Since Coronation Day Arrests in UK’s First ‘Republic Day’
Republicans unfurled banners outside Kensington Palace and across the UK on Sunday ahead of a major day of action
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The Heartbreaking Stories of Life in Britain for Victims of No-Fault Evictions – Five Years After They Were Meant to be Outlawed
Despite the Conservatives pledging to get rid of no-fault evictions in 2019 landlords are using it in record numbers with a 28% increase in 2023
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‘Asylum Seekers Could Make UK £1.2 Billion – Instead the Government is Spending That On Keeping them in Inhumane Conditions’
One solution to the UK’s economic and labour shortage problems is asylum seekers – if only the Government stopped to consider options other than sending them to Rwanda
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The NHS is Now So Under-Pressure People Want to Pay for Treatment, Poll Reveals
A Bylines Times commissioned poll has revealed that people might finally be prepared to pay for better medical care in the UK as frustrations with the service grow
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Fact Checkers Slam Government Inaction on Political Deepfakes Ahead of General Election, Saying Laws ‘Not Fit for Purpose’
Full Fact has called on the Government to clarify how mis- and disinformation will be challenged in this pivotal election year
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‘Neglected, Exhausted and Exploited’: A Mum’s Story of Caring for her Disabled Daughter 24 Hours a Day
A parent carer to a severely disabled woman explains just how difficult life can be – and just how little help and support is available
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Celebrity Care Home Owner Admits Inability to Keep Child Residents Safe
AP Care Homes has been restricted by Ofsted from caring for vulnerable children twice in three months over safeguarding issues. Now its owner has conceded that she is currently unable to protect the young people in her care from harm
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Brexit Ruined the Stock Market – and Not Even Rejoining the EU Will Fix It
A leading writer on the economy explains why the underperformance of the stock market should shock and concern everyone
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The Big Tobacco Linked Conservative MPs Opposing the Smoking Ban
The tobacco and vaping industries have provided extensive hospitality to MPs as part of their bid to oppose the Government’s planned smoking ban
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Sadiq Khan Tones Down Calls for Rent Controls in Capital after Keir Starmer Appears to Reject Plan
Several senior Labour figures have publicly rejected calls for rent controls, leaving the London Mayor in a tricky spot
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Conservatives Accused of Breaking Electoral Law With Fake Sadiq Khan ‘Driving Charge Notices’
Labour writes to the DPP to demand a criminal investigation over leaflets demanding voters hand over their data to the Conservative party in order to avoid a charge
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Voter Registration Day: Surge in Millennial Registrations Could be Another Blow for Conservatives
In recent months hundreds of thousands of young people have registered to vote. A poor youth turnout was expected to favour the Conservatives
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Sadiq Khan Accuses Conservatives of Manipulating Mayoral Election as he Pushes Starmer to Repeal Voting Changes
The re-standing London Mayor has pledged to lobby for the reversal of the Conservative’s controversial election changes he claims are designed to benefit PM Sunak’s party.
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Liz Truss Unexpurgated: 40 Days to Save the West
Despite the best efforts of the woke deep state, censored sections of the former prime minister’s diary have been leaked to Otto English
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The Law That Could Prevent the Next Hillsborough
35 years on from the disaster that killed 97 Liverpool fans, survivors believe a law demanding a ‘duty of candour’ in public inquiries could prevent future cover ups
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Rwanda ‘Cash for Humans’ Flights Leave Asylum Seekers ‘Terrified’
Asylum seekers are “living in limbo” in the UK, worried they could be put on a plane at any moment, as the controversial scheme returns to the House of Commons on Monday
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‘Conservative Party’s Love of Margaret Thatcher has Ruined Them – and Britain’s Economy’
Political author Will Hutton tells Byline Times why the Conservative party is in such a mess – and what voters need to do at the next General Election to “put a stake through its heart”
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The War We Don’t Discuss: Protests and Vigils Planned in Solidarity with Sudan Amid Call for Media Attention
Activists are calling for the media to shine a spotlight on the state of the war and Sudan’s humanitarian crisis
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The Free Speech Union’s Key Role in Developing Government Legislation
Karam Bales examines the close links between the FSU, the Office for Students and the Government’s drive to legislate on freedom of speech
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Nearly 300 Parliamentary Lobby Groups Disappear After New Rules on Foreign Funding and Membership Come into Force
All Party Parliamentary Groups have long been seen as the ‘next big scandal’ in lobbying, which the new rules aim to tackle
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Angela Rayner Tax Protest Was Staged by Conservative Politicians Posing as ‘Tax Activists’
A supposedly grassroots ‘tax protest’ against Labour Deputy Leader Angela Rayner, which hit the headlines on Wednesday, was actually organised by the Conservative party
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‘Trapped’: Tenants Consider ‘Rent Strikes’ in Response to Sky-Rocketing Service Fees
The first quarter of 2024 has seen a fourfold increase in tenants investigating how to notify landlords of their intention to strike
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The Orbánisation of British Politics: Farage and Braverman Headline with Hungarian Prime Minister at National Conservatism Conference
NatCon Brussels is creating a network of radical right speakers from the UK, Europe and the US which often aim to roll back reproductive and sexuality rights
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The Conservative Party’s Campaign Against Sadiq Khan is Based on a ‘Barefaced Lie’ Which is Designed to Harvest Voters’ Data
Susan Hall is plastering London with leaflets falsely claiming voters are about to be hit by a new charge to drive their cars
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The Dilemma Facing Civil Servants Over the UK’s Arms Sales to Israel
Former British diplomat Alexandra Hall Hall, who resigned from the Foreign Office in 2019 as she felt unable to represent the Government’s Brexit stance, unpicks the questions of law and morality facing those working inside Whitehall
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Just One-in-Four Voters Back Rishi Sunak’s Threat to Quit ‘Foreign Court’ of ECHR
Only a minority of Brits back the plan pushed by right-wing Conservative MPs to quit the international court
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‘Mel Stride’s Remarks on the Public Using Mental Health to Avoid Work Hide a Culture of Failure and Secrecy at the Department He Runs’
The founder of an employability and recruitment solutions consultancy lifts the lid on what is it like to work with the Department for Work and Pensions
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‘Panic, Misinformation and Hysteria About Freeports is Drowning Out the Real Concerns’
Chris Grey disentangles the myriad alarming claims being made about ‘special economic zones’ and freeports in order to focus on the real risks
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‘Media Attacks on NHS Translation and Diversity Spending Completely Miss the Point of the Health Service’
The Express suggested that £100 million of NHS spending on translators should be spent on nurses – but ensuring patients get the care they need is fundamental and a legal requirement, writes NHS consultant David Oliver
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‘Rishi Sunak’s Delay in Calling an Election May Help the Conservatives – But it Could Benefit Labour More’
The Conservatives may be hoping that ‘something will turn up’ to ease the inevitable – but they are also giving Labour time to prepare for power and form a bedrock of support, writes Mike Buckley
