Retirement age to rise to 68 by the end of the 2030s – what happens next The move could raise billions for the treasury The Independent UK · Jan 24, 2023
Who is Nadhim Zahawi? Millionaire ex-Chancellor in hot water over his tax affairs A row over his tax bill threatens to derail the career of the top Tory, who arrived in the UK from Iraq as a 11-year-old and has since held some of the most senior jobs in Government Daily Mirror · Jan 23, 2023
Tory health minister's stake in private screening and Covid testing firm revealed Nick Markham was given a peerage by Liz Truss in October 2022, shortly after he was made health minister The National (Scotland) · Jan 23, 2023
Desperate man who couldn't get NHS dentist pulls out 5 of his teeth with pliers A man has told how he had to extract five of his teeth as there were no NHS dentists in his area available to take him on thanks to closures during the pandemic Daily Mirror · Jan 23, 2023
Conservative health minister has big stake in Covid testing firm Exclusive: Nick Markham, who co- founded Cignpost Investments during the pandemic, was given a peerage by Liz Truss The Guardian - UK · Jan 23, 2023
Sunak risks public ‘uproar’ with tax cuts before election, TUC leader warns Paul Nowak says prime minister faces general condemnation if he does not prioritise resolving public sector disputes The Guardian - UK · Jan 22, 2023
Rishi Sunak 'won't boost free childcare because it was Liz Truss' idea', ministers claim In her brief spell as PM Ms Truss wanted to extend the support for three and four year olds from 30 hours to 50 hours a week Daily Mirror · Jan 21, 2023
Labour could win big with shift to right on social issues, says thinktank Right-leaning Onward claims Keir Starmer’s party needs to appeal more to ‘left authoritarians’ The Guardian - UK · Jan 20, 2023
Polling expert breaks down the results as independence poll puts Yes at 54 per cent SINCE the 2014 independence referendum, we have seen two kinds of "shocks" in our politics that have coincided with increased support for… The National (Scotland) · Jan 20, 2023
Don’t bring Boris Johnson back if you want to win the next election, Tories warned in new poll Increasing numbers of voters think Tories were right to force ex-PM out of No 10, survey finds The Independent UK · Jan 20, 2023
This is levelling up Sunak-style – he’s first among the equally useless Pity a PM trying to sell a flagship policy he never liked, flanked by ‘idiot’ colleagues who don’t much like him, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde The Guardian - UK · Jan 20, 2023
Liz Truss' personalised 'Jenga' lectern cost taxpayers more than £4,000 Downing Street revealed the price of the avant-garde podium Manchester Evening News · Jan 19, 2023
Rishi Sunak says people ‘not idiots’ and know why he cannot cut taxes PM suggests public understands what is affordable, but his stance could trigger fresh backlash from Tory MPs The Guardian - UK · Jan 19, 2023
Lewis Capaldi forced to stop Manchester gig after fight breaks out mid-song Lewis, 26, was in the middle of performing his hit song Hold Me While You Wait when he noticed a fight break out in the crowd and stopped mid-tune. Daily Record · Jan 19, 2023
Daily Mirror · Jan 19, 2023 Billionaire James Dyson blasts Tories' 'stupid' and 'short-sighted' economic policies The vacuum tycoon and knight of the realm lashed out at Rishi Sunak's Government over its approach to generating growth - and attacked ministers for hiking taxes on firms
The Guardian - UK · Jan 19, 2023 James Dyson attacks Rishi Sunak’s ‘shortsighted, stupid’ tax policies UK entrepreneur says economic strategy has left Britain in a ‘Covid inertia’ and calls for growth plan
Daily Mirror · Jan 18, 2023 'Simon Clarke's insulting nurses comments prove Tories don't value NHS and its staff' Today Simon Clarke, who served as a Cabinet Minister when Liz Truss was Prime Minister, had the gall to tell nurses relying on foodbanks they needed to 'budget better and take responsibility'
The Independent UK · Jan 18, 2023 Keir Starmer to invoke Blair as he tells Davos the UK is ‘open for business’ Labour leader to meet bosses of Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan and BlackRock
Daily Mirror · Jan 18, 2023 'Disgusting' rich Tory MP accuses nurses using foodbanks of 'not budgeting properly' Tory Simon Clarke accused NHS workers of not managing their shrinking personal budgets properly. The Chief Secretary to the Treasury, who earns £84,000 a year as an MP, sparked fury with his comments
The Guardian - UK · Jan 18, 2023 The Guardian view on levelling up: a badge of Tory confusion Editorial: Rishi Sunak lacks both the imagination to turn Boris Johnson’s slogan into a real policy, and the courage to abandon it
Evening Standard · Jan 18, 2023 Ex-Cabinet minister’s comments over nurses using food banks branded ‘heartless’ Simon Clarke, Liz Truss’s levelling up secretary, said in a radio interview the debate over nurses’ pay has ‘got way out of hand’
Evening Standard · Jan 18, 2023 Accents still rule Britain, says Scottish actor Jack Lowden Scottish actor Jack Lowden complains that people with plummy voices get an easier ride, claiming “accent rules” in the UK.
Evening Standard · Jan 18, 2023 Jeremy Hunt mocked over ‘Mr Bean-esque’ video explaining high inflation Chancellor Jeremy Hunt used a video set in a cafe to explain the rising cost of coffee
Daily Mirror · Jan 18, 2023 Jeremy Hunt mocked for 'Mr Bean-esque' video explaining why inflation is so high The Chancellor was accused of airbrushing out Liz Truss's disastrous economic policy as he blamed Covid, the war in Ukraine and rising energy prices for inflation in a bizarre two-minute video
Wales Online · Jan 18, 2023 Chancellor Jeremy Hunt mocked over 'coffee cup' video explaining inflation The Government’s aim to halve the inflation rate by the end of the year was listed as one of the “peoples (sic) priorities”