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Senior Conservatives fear UK’s traditional voters will desert them after Partygate
Apr 19, 2022 20:53UK’s Tory MPs say fines for Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Chancellor of Exchequer Rishi Sunak over lockdown gatherings have led usually loyal supporters to express concern.
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Rich Britain sending refugees to Rwanda isn’t ‘burden-sharing’. It’s shameful exploitation
Apr 18, 2022 20:01There are longer-term solutions to solving the world’s ongoing refugee crises, such as addressing the root causes that endanger people’s lives and livelihoods. But a fundamental principle of any morally functioning government is to uphold the human rights of people to seek safety, and not shift that responsibility to states with less developed asylum systems.
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Top Tories say Rishi Sunak’s hopes of becoming UK’s prime minister are over
Apr 11, 2022 05:06UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson is believed to be considering a ministerial reshuffle in the summer or autumn. There are known to have been tensions between No 10 and No 11 after the Chancellor of Exchequer Rishi Sunak offered only lukewarm support to Johnson at the height of the scandal over lockdown-busting parties, before Russia’s special operation in Ukraine.
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Tories fear poll disaster over high taxes
Apr 03, 2022 09:15Former Tory Cabinet Minister David Davis said on Saturday Apr. 02 that if the Conservatives were to become known as the party of high taxes, the damage to their economic reputation would be as deep and lasting as that inflicted on John Major’s government by the disaster of Black Wednesday in September 1992.
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Partygate: New threat to Boris Johnson’s leadership as Met fines 20 over scandal
Apr 01, 2022 13:19Move by UK police appears to shatter Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s claim COVID lockdown rules were followed at No 10.
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Extradition looms for Assange after UK Supreme Court refuses to hear his appeal
Mar 20, 2022 20:43The British judicial system has erected still another barrier to Julian Assange’s freedom. On March 14, the U.K. Supreme Court refused to hear Assange’s appeal of the U.K. High Court’s ruling ordering his extradition to the United States.
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Assange denied permission to appeal extradition
Mar 17, 2022 13:21Julian Assange, the publisher of WikiLeaks, has been denied his petition to appeal the High Court’s decision to extradite him to the United States, where he faces up to 175 years in prison for publishing U.S. state secrets that revealed evidence of American war crimes.
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IPCC expert warns UK not prepared for climate impacts
Mar 05, 2022 09:12According to a study, published recently and approved by 195 countries, the worldwide impacts of the climate crisis are more severe than predicted and there is only a narrow chance of securing “a liveable future for all”.
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Leak confirms Partygate questionnaire includes police caution
Feb 25, 2022 20:10In Britain, the first glimpse of a Partygate questionnaire confirms that Downing Street insiders are being questioned under police caution – and asked if they have a “reasonable excuse” for attending lockdown-busting gatherings.
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Central banks should be cautious in calibrating a response to inflation
Feb 21, 2022 16:02In the US, where inflation is at its highest in four decades, the latest chatter on Wall Street is that the Federal Reserve will take every opportunity to raise interest rates between now and the end of the year, seven times in all.