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Labour’s Shadow Cabinet charged thousands in expenses during lockdown, billing taxpayers for first-class travel, rent, TV licences – and even hand gel. Deputy leader Angela Rayner, who boasts of ‘standing up for working people’, claimed £30,952.98 including £1,600 on 23 first-class rail tickets between London and her Manchester constituency since March. Shadow Foreign Secretary Lisa Nandy … Read more
Thank your lucky stars Labour’s not in charge! Party’s proposal to shake up the pharmaceutical industry would leave Britain struggling to develop its own Covid vaccines, science experts warn The plan is revealed in a 50-page policy dossier titled ‘Medicines For The Many’ It was unveiled at 2019 Labour Party Conference, before first Covid case … Read more
Sir Keir Starmer has said Jeremy Corbyn’s response to a damning report on anti-Semitism in Labour was ‘just about as bad as you can get’. The Opposition leader said he was ‘disappointed’ when his predecessor claimed the issue had been ‘dramatically overstated for political reasons’. It comes as the party’s deputy leader Angela Rayner has … Read more
The Prime Minister was surprisingly jaunty… Keir Starmer’s brow crinkled with perplexity: HENRY DEEDES sees Boris Johnson on top form batting off the Opposition By Henry Deedes for the Daily Mail Published: 23:02 GMT, 11 November 2020 | Updated: 23:04 GMT, 11 November 2020 Armistice Day in the Commons, where at PMQs Labour’s guns fell … Read more
A Tory MP today demanded that Labour’s deputy leader Angela Rayner apologise for branding him ‘scum’ during a heated debate in the Commons on the Covid-19 crisis. Chris Clarkson had suggested that senior Labour figures were viewing the coronavirus pandemic as a ‘good crisis’ to be exploited. Ms Rayner, a hard-Left Corbynite on the frontbench, … Read more
Labour deputy leader Angela Rayner ‘shouts “Scum!” at Tory MP Chris Clarkson’ in heated House of Commons clash over Covid – before she is slapped down by furious Deputy Speaker Tory MP Chris Clarkson said Labour frontbench view coronavirus as ‘good crisis’ Mr Clarkson appeared to be heckled by Labour deputy leader Angela Rayner He … Read more
Angela Rayner last night accused Boris Johnson of ‘abandoning’ care homes to their fate as she blamed his ‘failure and incompetence’ for the thousands who had died. In a stinging attack on the PM, Labour’s deputy leader – who was a care worker herself before she entered politics – lambasted him for reneging on his … Read more
Angela Rayner had got her bovver boots on. Great clod-hopping things they were, the sort that Teddy Boys used to wear while out on the razzle. Not for her the genteel kitten clackers Theresa May used to fashion. One swing of the Rayner hoof in these babies could do a man some serious damage. Labour’s … Read more
Dominic Cummings faced the media on May 25 to give a day-by-day account of his battle against coronavirus and his controversial journey to his parents’ farm in Durham. The Prime Minister’s top aide faced an hour-long television grilling at Downing Street after it emerged on Saturday he had travelled 260 miles north from London with … Read more
Labour boycotts Facebook for a month over failure to remove racist and conspiracy theory content after death of George Floyd Labour has imposed a month-long boycott on Facebook over hate speech row No advertising placed on the site in solidarity with Black Lives Matter protests Sir Keir Starmer has ‘taken the knee’ to demonstrate support … Read more