Politics
Labour hold four-point lead over Tories – joint highest lead since 2019 election
Starmer said Johnson has spent the last few years “cosying up to people who don’t have Britain’s interests at heart and courting the idea that he is Britain’s Trump”.
This thread from a business owner sets out grim reality of post-Brexit trade problems
"The Tory party is no longer the Tory party. It is UKIP that has assumed control of the Tory party. Their goal is clear, to commit economic vandalism and social vandalism on the U.K. "
‘Previously booming businesses have been left to rot’ due to ‘poor Brexit deal’
“It is time for our governments to get a grip of what is now a full-blown crisis, and fast, before severe and lasting damage is done."
‘Brexit reality’ trends as industry group warns stockpiling has masked reality of border chaos
The Freight Transport Association of Ireland said stockpiling prior to Christmas had masked some of the effect of Brexit so far.
‘Boys’ club-type behaviour in parliament because it is still more like a public school,’ Commons & PM slammed
Boris Johnson has a “sort of language which he’s quite rightly nervous using in front of women.”
Tory candidate suspended after saying “fat” food bank users are “far from starving”
In his podcast, Craig Ross said "people have no idea how fat" people who use food banks are.
‘Lexit’ trends as bonfire of workers’ rights expected
Secret plans for post-Brexit reforms to UK workplace laws put pay to the ideals of a 'leftwing Brexit'.
Fish are ‘better and happier’ after Brexit because they’re ‘British’, Rees-Mogg claims
Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle intervened and noted: “Obviously there’s no overwhelming evidence for that.”
Katie Hopkins joins UKIP – saying she’s “not as big of an a***hole as the other politicians”
She also said that she was "sick to death" of Brits being put to the "back of the queue for everything".