Politics
Corbynite Cull? Starmer to expel 1,000 far left Labour members
Owen Jones tweeted: "Keir Starmer promised no more navel gazing, but instead of fighting the Tories, Labour is now beginning a Stalinist style purge..."
‘Levelling down:’ PM’s ‘jam tomorrow promises don’t amount to ‘levelling up’
“The speech was light on new ‘levelling up’ policies, but much more of a problem is that the government already has a big levelling down policy – the £20 a week cut to universal credit."
Labour accuses Gove of lying over vetting of dodgy PPE deals
Angela Rayner said Gove had falsely claimed that PPE contracts had gone through a rigorous eight-step process.
Health Secretary Sajid Javid tests positive for Covid-19 as Freedom Day looms
Health Secretary Sajid Javid has tested positive for Covid-19, he announced on Twitter.
Boris Johnson appoints Bully Boy chum to sleaze watchdog
“This is more of the same Conservative cronyism. This Prime Minister does not even care to hide it,” Labour said.
UK/EU ‘sausage war’ was ‘not even handbags at dawn’, MPs told
A Westminster committee has been told that a ‘perfect storm’ of problems related to the Northern Ireland Protocol lies ahead.
Investigators raid two homes over leak of Hancock CCTV
Hancock had to resign from the Cabinet after footage showed him kissing an aide in his departmental office.
Welsh councillor calls for people to be ‘cremated and thrown in the sea’ during cemetery debate
"I'm not a big fan of cemeteries," Andrew Hinchliff told the committee.
Boris Johnson has ‘done more to mainstream racism than any anonymous social media account’ – Sarkar
The government is on the wrong side of a culture war they stoked up - now people are beginning to notice.