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Published in: Home: OpinionWe’re fundraising for a reporter to cover the Covid inquiry – all of itWe want to report on every day of the Covid-19 inquiry. Will you help us keep holding the government accountable?
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: NewsDefence firm part-owned by Johnson’s £1m donor wins £80m MoD contractChristopher Harborne is the largest single shareholder in QinetiQ, which announced a lucrative government deal this week
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Published in: Home: NewsJohnson will publish memoir – but refuses to hand over ministerial diaryEx-PM spent a year refusing to release his official ministerial diary. Now he’s publishing his own account instead
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: InvestigationRevealed: Conservatives took more than £800,000 from private health firmsPrivate health tycoons have wined and dined senior ministers while cashing in on NHS contracts
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Published in: Home: FeatureA year after Partygate, why is the government still being so secretive?A year after the news broke about Partygate, the Cabinet Office is still refusing openDemocracy’s FOI requests on...
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Published in: Home: NewsExclusive: Moonlighting MPs raked in £9.6m from second jobs in a yearMPs’ earnings outside the Commons have doubled year-on-year as Labour unveils plans to clamp down on side hustles
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Published in: Home: NewsSuella Braverman is far from the only senior Tory to echo the far-RightThe home secretary has been accused of mainstreaming far-Right rhetoric – it’s not the first time ministers have...
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Published in: Home: OpinionNo one voted for Rishi Sunak to return the UK to crippling austerityOPINION: Sunak wants yet another round of cuts to public spending. And just like in 2010, we didn’t vote for it
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Published in: Home: OpinionFirst-past-the-post was meant to deliver stability. It’s time to junk itOPINION: Our chaotic electoral system is the result of 60 years of tweaks to a fundamentally unjust base
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Published in: Home: NewsExclusive: Priti Patel tipped for House of Lords seatKey Boris Johnson ally, twice accused of breaking Ministerial Code, could be named in ex-PM’s resignation honours
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Published in: Home: NewsClimate science denial backers could be given peerages by Boris JohnsonEx-Global Warming Policy Foundation boss who said UK should ‘move on’ from climate change reportedly on honours list
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Published in: Home: OpinionHow Boris Johnson rigged British politics for the ToriesJohnson’s brief premiership has been a relentless assault on our freedoms – to organise, to protest, to vote
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Published in: Home: NewsBoris Johnson accused of ‘partisan interference’ over election watchdogExclusive: Former electoral commissioner David Howarth says new details of government power grab is exactly what...
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Published in: Freedom of Information: NewsTruss and Sunak’s teams had worst transparency records in WhitehallRevealed: Tory leadership hopefuls both led teams with an 'awful' record for Freedom of Information
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Published in: Home: OpinionTruss and Sunak’s reheated Thatcherism is the last thing the UK needsWhile both Tory candidates look to the Iron Lady for inspiration, Labour is resurrecting the spirit of Tony Blair
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Published in: Home: OpinionLiz Truss’s U-turn on Brexit is bad news for Northern IrelandAn ex-Remainer with a point to prove, Truss will continue Johnson’s hardball tactics with the EU – at NI’s expense
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Published in: Home: OpinionBoris Johnson is going – but his cronyism and corruption are here to stayAssisted by a visionless opposition, both Sunak and Truss are free to continue with business as usual
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Published in: Home: OpinionBoris Johnson, the apex predator that Frantz Fanon foresawJohnson’s self-interested, sloganeering premiership showed how weak the British parliamentary system is
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Published in: Home: AnalysisJeremy Hunt: New chancellor is the man who ruined the NHSAs the former health secretary is appointed to the Exchequer, his ministerial past puts paid to his ‘sensible’ image
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Published in: Home: OpinionBeware the ‘nice Tory’ who comes after the panto villainWe cheered when Margaret Thatcher resigned, too. But let’s not kid ourselves that a grey man successor will save us.
