Hundreds of thousands sign up to mass tree planting after government failure on environment targets
Woodland Trust estimates close to a million trees will be going into the ground as a result of its Big Climate Fightback campaign.
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Jacob Rees-Mogg “grounded by Tories” until polling day
It comes after comments on Grenfell Tower and his poor etiquette in the House of Commons.
Tory manifesto is a re-hash of Ukip’s 2015 document, Farage says
"I recognise much of the Conservative manifesto because they're things that I have campaigned on for years", he said.
IFS warn austerity ‘baked in’ a Tory manifesto with ‘notable’ lack of social care funding
In a dire warning the IFS added: “even in 2023–24 day-to-day spending on public services outside of health would still be almost 15 per cent lower in real terms that it was at the start of the 2010s."
Labour pledge to help tenants, revealing 1 in 4 private rented UK homes are ‘non decent’
The party said one in four private rented homes are classed as ‘non-decent’, meaning they are damp, cold, in disrepair or unsafe to live in.
Half of 50,000 nurses promised by Tories ‘would need to come from overseas’
The findings come as an FOI request revealed thousands of nurses have left the UK since the Brexit vote.
The Conservative manifesto at a glance
The 59-page manifesto contained few surprises, with most of the main policies trailed in advance.
Thousands of NHS staff from EU have left health service since referendum – FOI request reveals
More than 11,600 NHS staff from the EU have left the health service in the three years since the Brexit vote, including 4,783 nurses.
Seven senior Tories, including the PM, at risk of losing seat in tactical voting switch
Boris Johnson, Dominic Raab, Iain Duncan Smith and Steve Baker could all be ousted by tactical voting campaigns.