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The Great Moving Left Show Tories and Labour

The Great Moving Left Show

Is this the start of a big left turn? The British death rate has been appalling. The politics of easing the lockdown – higher taxes, blurred rules – are already looking much harder than the politics of imposing it. The state has swollen hugely. You might assume, therefore, that the…
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May 20, 2020
The Tory immigration system is broken – and these 10 new reasons prove it Tories and Labour

The Tory immigration system is broken – and these 10 new reasons prove it

With so much happening – not least growing concerns about the government’s handling of the Covid-19 pandemic – other matters pale in significance. Yet, there have been some startling recent revelations about just how truly awful the Conservative Party’s hostile environment has become. Over the last few months, parliamentary questions…
bubmag
May 17, 2020
Exclusive: DUP dark money man in ‘very unusual’ investment scandal Tories and Labour

Exclusive: DUP dark money man in ‘very unusual’ investment scandal

Conservative Party leader Michael Howard (L) and Scottish Conservative candidate for the Cathcart | Danny Lawson/PA Archive/PA Images The man behind the Democratic Unionist Party’s mysterious £435,000 Brexit donation has found himself caught up in a scandal involving a bankrupted British businessman, a convicted American fraudster, Texan oil wells, Scottish…
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May 17, 2020
The Left are at their most pompous when attacking the Tories’ handling of this crisis Tories and Labour

The Left are at their most pompous when attacking the Tories’ handling of this crisis

For a moment, imagine you live in a country where Labour won the last General Election and is now masterminding a national response to the coronavirus pandemic.That scenario is certainly in the minds of opponents of Boris Johnson, who have spent the past two months complaining relentlessly about the Government's…
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May 15, 2020
Equalities watchdog rules out inquiry into Tory Islamophobia Tories and Labour

Equalities watchdog rules out inquiry into Tory Islamophobia

Britain's equalities watchdog has ruled out holding an investigation 'at this stage' into alleged Islamophobia in the Conservative Party. The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) said 'it would not be proportionate' to carry out its own inquiry after the Tories published details of an internal probe into discrimination and prejudice. The…
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May 13, 2020
Coronavirus isn’t the UK’s only ‘invisible enemy’ – let’s not forget about Brexit Tories and Labour

Coronavirus isn’t the UK’s only ‘invisible enemy’ – let’s not forget about Brexit

In the government’s handling of coronavirus, the UK has effectively set a model for every other foreign country to avoid. Boris Johnson’s speech on Sunday made things ever confusing. Despite trying desperately to show some semblance of a plan for the pandemic, it ended up confirming nothing but widespread fears.…
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May 12, 2020