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Then Prime Minister Liz Truss and then Chancellor of the Exchequer Kwasi Kwarteng visit a construction site for a medical innovation campus in Birmingham, on day three of the Conservative Party annual conference at the International Convention Centre in Birmingham, October 4, 2022
TAXPAYERS have spent nearly £4 million paying off failed Conservatives after their year of political chaos, Labour research showed today.
Slammed as “shameless grifters” by Labour’s Emily Thornberry, a number of top Tories pocketed severance after just a few weeks in office – and then sometimes returned to the same posts.
The final bill for the ministerial merry go-round in 2022 is just under £1 million, as one minister succeeded another at breakneck speed while the Johnson and Truss premierships imploded.
Megapicket to shut down Birmingham’s refuse sites
SOLOMON HUGHES asks whether Labour ‘engaging with decision-makers’ with scandalous records of fleecing the public is really in our interests
Sharon Graham addresses the Unite policy conference after talks over the Birmingham bin strikes break down
Reform’s rise speaks to a deep crisis in Establishment parties – but relies on appealing to social and economic grievances the left should make its own, argues NICK WRIGHT