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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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Heart Attacks on the Rise After Conservative Reforms Reverse Progress on Tackling Silent Killer
A damning new report highlights a series of failures under the last Conservative Government
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Lethal Grenfell-Style Cladding Could Remain on Buildings for Another 16 Years and Cost Tens of Billions More Pounds to Remove
A damning new report exposes the scandalously slow pace of removing all the flammable cladding still wrapped around thousands of flats across the UK
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‘Keir Starmer’s Belief that Endless Growth Creates Stability is a Dangerously False Misrepresentation of the Situation we face’
A fixation with economic growth has led humanity to the brink of catastrophe, argues Tom Scott
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Labour’s October Budget Risks Return to Austerity, Campaigners Warn – Amid Reports of Major Spending Cuts
Chancellor Rachel Reeves is being urged to borrow to invest amid claims that billions of pounds in cuts to investment is planned
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This Innovative Proposal Could Clean Up our Rivers – So Why is Whitehall Ignoring it?
The plan could reduce pollution, create jobs, reduce imports, while also helping the UK meet its net zero targets
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No Lessons Learned: Peers Condemn Culture of Brushing Damning Inquiry Findings Under the Carpet
“‘Lessons learned’ is an entirely vacuous phrase if lessons aren’t being learned” warns new report after a series of deadly warnings were ignored
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Post-Brexit Reliance on US Service Exports Deepens UK Economic Inequality
Despite widespread economic stagnation and declining productivity in the UK, service exports -particularly to the US – are buoying the economy, highlighting London’s increasing dominance and escalating living costs
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Rishi Sunak and the Mickey Mouse Manifesto: A Work of Bleak Fiction for Another Age
The Conservative manifesto might make a line in an exam paper in 30 years. But voters desperate for change are unlikely to take notice
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Gaming the Refs: Watchdogs ‘Captured’ Amid Cuts and Political Pressure – as Lid is Lifted on UK’s ‘Lax’ Regulation Regime
Report exposes over 100,000 cases of corporate wrongdoing since 2010, with rule-breakers often given just a slap on the wrist
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Outsourcing and Our Hollowed-Out State: A Story of Dependency Without Delivery
Scratch the surface of just about any public service failure of recent years and outsourcing features as a key cause, writes Chris Grey
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The Funding Crisis in Schools is Reaching Catastrophic Levels
Leicestershire School Heads have opened their books to parents showing them just how much they are struggling
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United Nations Summons UK Government Over Breaches of UN Convention on Disabled People’s Rights
Sunak’s Government has been called to face a UN committee over the shocking conditions faced by some disabled people after years of austerity
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Rishi Sunak Says His ‘Plan is Working’ But Voters Don’t Believe Him
In the wake of recession and two massive by-election defeats, an exclusive new poll for Byline Times suggests three quarters of voters don’t believe the PM’s claim to be turning the economy around
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Rishi Sunak’s ‘Austerity Bombshell’ That Westminster Won’t Talk About
As Britain goes into recession, the Government is planning to double down on the same slash and burn agenda that first helped get us into this economic slump
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Costs of Curtailed HS2 Rail Link Still ‘Running Out of Control’
Commons Committee criticises the costs of the remaining high-speed rail link and the Government for fixing the figures
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Johnson, Truss, Sunak: The Longest Parliament with the Lowest Results
Seemingly lasting an eternity, Professor Chris Painter dissects the failures of governance of the 2019-2024 Parliament, in response to momentous events
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Prince William is Radiation Prison Landlord – Parts of UK’s Oldest Jail Evacuated
Inmates at HMP Dartmoor are being moved to other prisons due to potentially dangerous levels of cancer-causing radon detected in some cells. The Duke of Cornwall is their landlord
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Rape & Serious Sexual Offences Cases Now Represent Record One in Seven of All Trials in Courts Backlog
As the overall crown court backlog hits a record 67,000, Byline Times can reveal the number of ‘RASSO’ cases waiting to be heard has more than tripled in five years
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Half of all Local Authorities in England at Risk of Going Bust Next Year
MPs have warned Michael Gove that large numbers of councils could soon be in severe financial distress
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Revealed: Almost Half of Maternity Wards Offering Substandard Care
Mothers and babies are being put at risk due to severe staff shortages, the official watchdog found
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‘Once in a Generation’ Plan to Fix Social Care Crisis Is In Crisis After Sunak Slashes Its Budget
Part of the financial crisis facing social care has been the huge rise in inflation and interest rates following former Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng’s controversial budget
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Mother Fears her Child Becoming the ‘Next Awaab Ishak’ as Damp and Mouldy Home is Left Untreated
Grace Oppong told Byline Times that her daughter has been repeatedly hospitalised due to mould and damp
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Britain’s Best Days are Behind Us Under the Conservatives, Say British People
A majority of voters believe “nothing in Britain really works” and say Rishi Sunak’s party has made public services worse, according to an exclusive new poll
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‘Yes Gillian, the Tories have done a F**cking Good Job… of Ruining Britain’
Like some effluent King Midas, everything the Conservative Government has touched has turned to crap, writes Otto English
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‘Austerity is a False Economy that has Brought the Nation’s Roof Crumbling Down’
The collapsing school buildings scandal has exposed how the Government failed to ‘fix the roof while the sun was shining’
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How the Government Failed to Act on the Collapsing School Building Scandal
Ministers’ claims that the school building scandal only emerged ‘over the summer’ is contradicted by evidence of warnings going back years
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The Failing ‘Forty New Hospitals’ Programme is a Perfect Illustration of Our Broken Politics
An official report reveals why the Conservative Party is unfit to be in charge of the NHS
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The Water Industry is Environmentally Insolvent: So Where is Future Investment Going to Come From?
Polluting privatised water companies have been hollowed out by dividend stripping and reckless borrowing. But there is a way out
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Britain Stuck in an Investment ‘Doom Loop” Says New Research
Labour’s abandonment of its green prosperity plan is emblematic of an economy that has slumped to the bottom of the G7 in mobilising investment
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Council Coffers Crisis Revealed: Auditing of Public Money by Local Authorities Collapses – So How is Taxpayers’ Cash Being Spent?
Serious problems have arisen after the Government abolished the Audit Commission and handed the job to private accountancy firms instead
