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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.
As a proportion of GDP the total welfare bill is lower than it was 15 years ago. The claim that it is spiralling out of control is mythmaking, argues DIANE ABBOTT
Megapicket to shut down Birmingham’s refuse sites
Labour will find increases in the state pension age are unacceptable, just as cuts to the Winter Fuel Allowance, personal independence payments and universal credit are — it needs to change direction immediately, writes PCS general secretary FRAN HEATHCOTE