I wrote yesterday that: In fairness to the Tories, it looks quite likely that they will split over [Rwanda]. The possibility that the supposed most
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The Tories have gone full on fascist with their Rwanda Bill
The government has this afternoon published this: This statement in the preamble to this Bill is astonishing: So, human rights no longer matter in UK
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The government’s desire to have access to the bank accounts of every benefit claimant – including pensioners – whilst refusing to take powers to tackle tax abuse – reveals malicious intent on their part
This speech was made by Labour backbench Sir Stephen Timms in the House of Commons on 29 November during a debate on the government’s new
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Any decent politician should commit to the return of stolen property
As the Guardian has noted in an email newsletter this morning: Rishi Sunak cancelled a meeting with Greek prime minister Kyiakos Mitsotakis at the last minute on
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On fiscal rules
This turned out to be my most popular tweet yesterday by some way. It was inspired by comments from Labour spokespeople whose performance yesterday was
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Rishi thinks just let people die and that’s ok
From yesterday’s Covid hearing. Sunak is our prime minister. I think he should be serving time. Many people died too young as a result of
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Why a cut in inheritance tax makes no sense and why cutting income tax does
I posted this thread on what I still refer to as Twitter, this morning: Of all the taxes in the UK that Jeremy Hunt could
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The Tories are hooked on populist divide-and-rule tactics, and that has rarely ended well
In amongst the political meltdown of yesterday, one thing became apparent, and that is that the Tories are using populism as their weapon of choice.
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The crisis of acceptability for UK democracy might now have arrived
Yesterday was the most extraordinary day in parliament. Around 60 Tory MPs demanded that their own government deport people seeking asylum and a place of
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