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‘Total hypocrisy:’ UK coal mine gives ‘carte blanche’ to other countries to miss climate change targets
"If it's bad for the climate, bad for countryside, bad for long-term jobs and steel industry doesn't want it, what reasons are there left Gove?"
Final Partygate fines figure revealed as is eye-watering cost of investigation
"Pretty astonishing that this investigation has led to scores of fines, making Downing Street and Whitehall the most fined location in the UK."
Tory rape arrest: ‘I’ve seen some unacceptable comments from Conservative MPs’
When asked if the person should be named he said, “I think they should be treated in exactly the same way as anybody else."
Watch: Praise for Mhairi Black as she calls out creeping ‘fascism’ in UK
"Absolutely bloody brilliant, at last someone is speaking about the creeping fascism in the U.K."
What about Covid loans? New £600m plan to fight UC benefit fraud unveiled
"So it's worth the money to go after benefit fraudsters but not the hell of a lot more in covid fraud," said one angry Twitter user.
Watch: Minister rejects police warning of increase in crime due to cost of living guilty of not having a ‘clue’
"Kit Malthouse claiming that poverty doesn't increase crime on the basis that all the criminals he knows are billionaires and Tory MPs."
Reactions as Eric Clapton cancels shows after testing positive for Covid
"I see Eric Clapton has caught irony,' wrote one person in response.
Truss accused of saying Brexit would only impact farmers carrying turnips – reactions
"Did she mention the disgrace of Irish cheese? Just asking for the French..."
‘Britain deserves better:’ Tory MPs slammed for voting down emergency budget to tackle cost of living crisis
The Labour amendment to the Queen’s Speech was defeated by 312 to 229.