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Channel 4 election debate reaches new depths of futility

Seven lesser candidates share existential crisis as they debate crime and immigration to negligible interest

The Guardian - UK · Jun 18, 2024

How to understand the 2024 general election? These books will help

Nigel Farage is back, the Tories are in freefall and everyone’s shouting about tax. If you want to read up on the choices facing voters on 4 July – and better understand how we got here in the first place – Jessie Thompson has your ultimate general election reading guide

The Independent UK · Jun 16, 2024

Labour pledges to keep government’s expanded childcare scheme

Nick Thomas-Symonds says party would not reduce number of hours of government-funded childcare in England

The Guardian - UK · Apr 1, 2024

Michelle Mone and ministers trade claims over her hidden links to PPE deals

Disgraced Tory peer says government always knew of involvement in Covid contracts as calls mount for her to stay away from Lords

The Guardian - UK · Dec 18, 2023

Baroness Mone hits back at Sunak over PPE scandal as Starmer urges Govt to 'come clean'

Baroness Michelle Mone insists ministers knew about her involvement as she faces calls to leave the House of Lords

Evening Standard · Dec 18, 2023

Michael Gove told to 'urgently' answer questions from Michelle Mone interview

MICHAEL Gove has been told he must urgently appear before MPs to answer questions on his involvement in the ongoing scandal around Michelle Mone.

The National (Scotland) · Dec 18, 2023

Boris Johnson faces two-day grilling at Covid Inquiry

Former PM arrives at inquiry venue around 7am, three hours before hearing is due to begin

Evening Standard · Dec 6, 2023

OPINION - Forget Margaret Thatcher, the key to Keir Starmer is his view on Clement Attlee

A politician praising a predecessor provides a heavy hint on how they intend to govern, but Keir Starmer’s new found enthusiasm for Margaret Thatcher is a tactical play. His ultimate role model is a very different leader — not the grocer’s grammar school daughter but the shy and underwhelming Clement…

Evening Standard · Dec 4, 2023

Cutting off the North from HS2 is a national disgrace

Ripping up plans to extend HS2 north of Birmingham will mean a life sentence of travel misery for tens of millions of travellers

The Independent UK · Oct 2, 2023

How the Integrated Rail Plan disintegrated

Train Talk: HS2 is the very definition of how not to run a railway project – and how to destroy a dream

The Independent UK · Sep 26, 2023