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So do the Tories have the 48 letters they need to unseat PM Theresa May?

Ever since details started emerging of Theresa May's Brexit deal, the enemies in her party started briefing that it was only a matter of time before she would be thrown under a bus. For two night in a row she has made a defiant statement to the press, last night insisting to journalists, many of whom had turned up expecting a resignation, that she was "not in denial" about the prospects of getting her Brexit deal through parliament. Despite a...

Economic fears that led to Brexit likely to be compounded by UK’s exit from EU

The economic fears and insecurities that led to Brexit are likely to be compounded when the UK leaves the union, a UN investigation has found. The UN’s Rapporteur into Extreme Poverty and Human Rights in the UK, Philip Aston, said no matter what outcome Brexit achieves, other than the Utopian one which is most unlikely to happen,  Britain will be left worse off economically. There’s going to be a fall in GDP, there’s going to be a fall in tax...

Women “hardest hit” by government’s austerity cuts

Women have been the hardest hit by government cuts to social services and welfare, a UN investigation has revealed. The UN’s Rapporteur into Extreme Poverty and Human Rights Philip Aston found reductions in social care services translate to an increased burden on primary caregivers who are disproportionately women. Releasing the interim findings of his investigation he pointed to a remarkable gender dimension of many of the Conservative reforms. He said: “If you had got a group of misogynists in a...

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