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Sue Gray was blocked from taking a new Downing Street job after she demanded a pay rise – following her ousting as Keir Starmer’s top aide on £170,000 per year_nhy

Sue Gray was blocked from taking a new Downing Street job after she demanded a pay rise, it was reported today. The former chief of staff to the Prime Minister was offered a ‘regions envoy’ role – but demanded more money to take…

Pensioners ‘will die’ after Labour’s winter fuel allowance cuts as snow is predicted to grip parts of the UK this week_Nhy

A former pensions minister has warned that pensioners could freeze to death waiting to see if they are eligible for the winter fuel allowance after Labour scrapped the universal payment earlier this year. Baroness Altmann said the decision to make the winter fuel…

Government credit cards used for high-street spending spree at John Lewis, Moss Bros, Halfords and Argos_Nhy

Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall faced calls last night to explain why her department’s Government ‘credit cards’ were funding a high-street spree. The spending at stores including John Lewis, Moss Bros, Halfords and Argos appeared on the first post-election disclosures of how staff at…

DAVID GOODHART: Why Kemi Badenoch should put two-parent families at the heart of her drive to rebuild the shattered Tories_Nhy

When Labour was drawing up its 2015 election manifesto, the party’s then MP Jon Cruddas, a somewhat socially conservative politician, made many references to the importance of the family. However, most of them were struck out of the final document. These days,…

Record numbers of asylum seekers have been allowed to stay in Britain after claiming they are gay, official figures reveal_Nhy

A record number of asylum seekers have managed to secure their stay in the UK by claiming to be gay, official figures have revealed. The figure almost trebled last year from 762 in 2022 to 2133 in 2023, of people…

David Blunkett is hurt in Tube station accident after 77-year-old fell into platform gap while boarding a train – as blind former Home Secretary brands some platforms ‘death traps’_Nhy

David Blunkett has called for safety improvements at London Underground stations after falling into a platform gap while boarding a train. The blind former Home Secretary, 77, needed hospital treatment for ‘excruciating pain’ in his legs and branded some platforms ‘death traps’….

Keir Starmer brags that his dad was a toolmaker – so why is he taxing us out of existence? Craftsmen like PM’s father hammer Labour over crippling Budget_Nhy

Sir Keir Starmer’s countless mentions during the election campaign that his father was a toolmaker became such a recurring theme that audiences began to laugh whenever he mentioned it. On one such occasion, he retorted that when he was a young…

After private-school tax raid Eton tells parents: We can’t afford to drop our £63,000-a-year fees_Nhy

The new Provost of Eton College has admitted the historic school has faced multiple calls from parents to lower fees since it told them it was levying Labour’s full ‘private-school tax’ on them. Eton is one of the few leading…

Assisted dying bill could see terminally-ill patients have to swallow toxic ‘sludge’ of 100 pills in their last moments, doctors warn_Nhy

Terminally-ill adults seeking to end their lives under a proposed new law could spend their final moments forcing down a poisonous mixture of drugs, doctors have warned. If a bill put forward by the Labour MP Kim Leadbeater comes to fruition, it…

Trump adviser tells Britain to dump ‘socialist’ EU if it wants a free trade deal with the US_Nhy

Britain should lean towards the United States rather than chase a closer relationship with the ‘socialist’ European Union if it wants to secure a free trade deal, one of Donald Trump‘s top advisers has warned. The much-debated deal has largely stayed on the…