The Carpathia isn’t coming to rescue this government still swimming in the mire, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
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Cend Ltd: the Tories false friends
As the RMT Health and Safety Conference takes place, the union is calling for urgent action on crisis of work-related stress, understaffing and the growing threat of workplace assaults. RMT leader EDDIE DEMPSEY explains
Current polling shows Scottish Labour faces a stark choice: break decisively with Westminster or continue its slide into irrelevance, warns VINCE MILLS
As discussions continue between the US and Iran over the Islamic Republic’s nuclear enrichment programme, the suppression of internal dissent by the theocratic dictatorship grows. STEVE BISHOP reports.
Last weekend’s inaugural conference mixed warmth, unity and ambition with the unmistakable echo of old arguments. MATT KERR wonders whether the fledgling party’s difficulties can be overcome
The US president’s career is defined by a consistent use of racist tropes and provocation. Why are world leaders so silent over his repeated vitriolic prejudice, asks ROGER McKENZIE
The latest return from the Electoral Commission shows that since 2014 Cend Ltd have given the Tories £300,000.
They are part of The Hut Group, a successful mail order business run by entrepreneur Matthew Moulding. £50,000 gets membership of the Tory “Leaders Group” whose members “are invited to join senior figures from the Conservative Party at dinners, lunches, drinks receptions.”
Moulding’s companies also fairly regularly appear in the Advertising Standards Authority list of firms with unfair or untrue advertising.
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