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What is Beergate and why does it matter?

By Olivia Wilson
In Politics
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The Sun first published a picture of Keir Starmer drinking a beer with Labour workers in a party office in Durham on 30 April 2021 more than a year ago. Until recently, the story was a minor Tory attack line, but it is now potentially a resignation matter following Durham police’s decision to reopen its investigation into whether the Labour leader broke Covid lockdown rules. What is Labour’s...

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Vomiting and partying until 4am: Sue Gray delivers damning verdict on Boris Johnson’s No 10

By Olivia Wilson
In Politics
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Sue Gray has issued a damning verdict on the party culture in Boris Johnson’s Downing Street, in a 37-page report that includes nine photographs and names a string of senior civil servants. Gray sets out in embarrassing detail how each event unfolded, including a leaving party on 18 June 2020 at which “one individual was sick” and “there was a minor altercation between two other individuals”...

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Rishi Sunak’s tax rises: three of the biggest examined

By Olivia Wilson
In Politics
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During his two years at the Treasury, Rishi Sunak’s tax policy has been characterised by large temporary cuts – to cushion the financial blow from the pandemic – followed by even larger and permanent rises running up to, and beyond, the next election in 2024. The chancellor stressed that bringing down the annual deficit was a priority after he spent £400bn more than he had planned in 2020 keeping...

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My blue passport has arrived – and with it a crushing new sense of our Brexit nightmare

By Olivia Wilson
In Politics
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In February, I lost my passport in the stupidest way yet. I was not mugged, pickpocketed or burgled (passports one to three), I did not drop it in a pond (passport four), or lose it in a house move (passport five), I just walked through a station in a bit of a daze, and by the time I got to my platform, it was gone. I tried to self-soothe with the fact that, at least I now had time to renew...

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Brexit march: ‘1 million’ rally for people’s vote – as it happened

By Olivia Wilson
In Politics
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Official figures put the numbers at the central London march today at over one million.Scottish first minister Nicola Sturgeon told the rally in Parliament Square that “the prime minister and her government have proved completely incapable of delivering on the result of the 2016 vote, which is why it is right that this should now go back to the people.”Margaret Georgiadou, the “frustrated...

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UK Covid: Johnson does not deny Christmas party reports; No 10 defends ignoring Sage travel advice – as it happened

By Olivia Wilson
In Politics
2 Min Read
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Boris Johnson has not denied that parties were held in Downing Street last winter despite the lockdown at the time, saying only that no Covid rules were broken.But Johnson has denied a report that his flagship pledge to build 40 new hospitals has been labelled as unachievable by an official watchdog – even though the health department has confirmed this is the case.Experts advising the...

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MPs back all ‘plan B’ measures amid large Tory rebellion on Covid passes and mandatory vaccines – as it happened

By Olivia Wilson
In Politics
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Nearly 100 Conservative MPs voted against plans for Covid vaccine certificates for some large venues in England – marking the largest rebellion of Boris Johnson’s premiership. The number of rebels far exceeds Johnson’s parliamentary majority of 79 – and the 56 MPs needed to trigger a vote of no confidence in his leadership.In a separate vote, 63 Tories voted against mandatory vaccinations for NHS...

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You might expect Conservatives to resist workers’ rights, but Labour? Only the Greens stand with strikers

By Marta Lopez
In Politics
5 Min Read
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The Green party understands, and has long understood, that the climate crisis and the cost of living crisis are interlinked. Our economy isn’t currently working for people, or the planet, when it could and should be doing both. People are getting desperate. They can see the world is changing around them but don’t often feel as if they’re included in the conversation. We’ve seen that over the past...

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Ex-MP Charlie Elphicke jailed for sexual assault now claiming universal credit

By Olivia Wilson
In Politics
3 Min Read
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The disgraced former Conservative MP Charlie Elphicke has said he is in a “very difficult and embarrassed position” of being on universal credit and unable to pay £35,000 following his sentence for sexually assaulting two women. Elphicke, who represented the Kent constituency of Dover from 2010 until 2019, was released halfway through his sentence earlier this year, having been jailed for two...

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Boris Johnson admits defending Owen Paterson was ‘total mistake’

By Olivia Wilson
In Politics
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Boris Johnson has said it was “a total mistake” to try to defend Owen Paterson from punishment for repeatedly breaking lobbying rules, adding that he fully accepted that what his former Conservative colleague had done was wrong. In a sometimes uncomfortable appearance before the Commons liaison committee, Johnson said his brief attempt unilaterally to replace the existing disciplinary system for...

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