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“Evasive” Theresa May dodged almost 75% of questions during 2017 General Election campaign

Theresa May dodged almost 75 per cent of questions in broadcast interviews during the 2017 General Election campaign, researchers have claimed. May scooped the mantle for the most evasive Tory leader in decades after a team from the University of York found she answered just 27 per cent of questions in four broadcast interviews. This was similar to the figure from two interviews Mrs May conducted just after she became prime minister in 2016. By contrast, her predecessor David Cameron...

“Michael has missed a moment” – Extinction Rebellion share disappointment after meeting with Gove

Extinction Rebellion has shared its disappointment following a planned meeting with Michael Gove, saying it was "less shit” than they thought it would be, “but only mildly”. The activist group say the Environment Secretary has “missed a moment” after he failed to promise concrete action to tackle climate change, despite admitting that the UK is not a world leader on climate. Clare Farrell of Extinction Rebellion said: “It was less shit than I thought it would be, but only mildly....

‘Virtually stagnant’ social mobility in UK and it could get worse

A worrying report from the Social Mobility Commission has found that social mobility hasn’t changed since 2014. Its State of the Nation investigation concluded that inequality will remain in society unless the Government takes urgent action to change the status quo. The Prime Minister, Theresa May, pledged to tackle the “burning injustice” in Britain when she took the top job back in 2016. However, the following year all of the commissioners quit their roles monitoring social mobility, claiming that the...

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