Tories and Labour

Friday 21 October 2022 6:15 am By: Will Cooling Will Cooling writes about politics and pop culture at It Could Be Said substack Keir Starmer has called for a general election (Photo by Chris J Ratcliffe/Getty Images) It might seem odd to wonder what dangers lurk in Sir Keir Starmer’s…

Published October 19, 2022 at 8:27 PM LONDON - Prime Minister Liz Truss’s government issued a stark warning to Conservative MPs not to back an opposition motion on fracking, as party managers struggle to control mutinous lawmakers.   The opposition Labour Party has called on Tory MPs to “put country…

OPINIONTo strike while inflation is hotIs there a German cure for SA's labour conflict?There is hope that a brutal Transnet strike may subside after an agreement with a key union. But one thing remains clear: the experience of Covid-19 and the risk of global economic meltdown has failed to deliver…

British Prime Minister Liz Truss is trying to rescue her premiership after the tax cut debacle caused a fiscal crisis and gave Labour a gargantuan polling lead over her Conservatives. But after that calamitous start, analysts doubt the Tory Party will keep Truss in power for long, even if it…

T he Labour Party is looking to capitalise on the Government crisis with a series of scathing new adverts as it gears up for the next general election. In four scathing posters, seen by the PA news agency, Labour attacks the Conservatives for damaging the UK’s standing on the world…

Eddie Izzard. Image: Facebook English standup comedian, actor and activist Eddie Izzard on Tuesday announced her bid to become a Labor MP at the next general elections and her “plan to take the fight to the Tories”.  If successful, Izzard (60) would become the first out trans MP to be elected…

Liz Truss attempted to rally her party today with a message of unity following what pundits described as “a ropey few days for the government”. In her maiden Conservative Party Conference speech as leader, the prime minister “focused on selling her economic vision and persuading people it would work”, said the BBC’s chief political correspondent Nick…

In Nepal child labour is illegal yet even politicians own brick factories that regularly employ children as young as 6 years old. For Immediate Release In Nepal child labour is illegal yet even politicians own brick factories that regularly employ children as young as 6 years old. A half-hour documentary…

Liverpool: An increasingly confident British Labour Party is looking to Australia and the electoral success of Anthony Albanese as the model for how to bring an end to four terms of Conservative government. Albanese, who famously called for an end to Labor’s bitter infighting by saying he would prefer to…

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