Lebedev, however, accused the Guardian of a “continuing harassment of me over the past year or so [which] has been full of untruthful innuendo and light on facts. In the run-up to the 2010 election, this country was in a mess. GDP, both absolute and in per capita terms, had fallen in the wake of the financial crisis. Average wages, too, had taken a hit. Outside the realm of dry economic statistics, in what politicians like to refer to as the “real economy”, an unnerving number of crises were looming into view: an underfunded social care system, in which people could lose everything they had and still end up without good care in old age; a slight but definite decline in the rate of home ownership, as a growing number of people found themselves priced out; the near collapse in decent pension provision. It was reported chief whip Mark Spencer spends most of his days inventing dazzlingly clever new insults for his colleagues- In a bold challenge to logic, the govt said they wouldn’t look for evidence of this unless they found evidence As part of her ploy to replace Johnson, Liz Truss, ITV4 made flesh, claimed she’d resolve Brexit in a month, a prediction previously made by

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Brutal cuts to education funding over the last decade are “without precedent in postwar UK history” – and have hit the most deprived schools hardest, new analysis shows. In a globally competitive world companies may now choose to invest their time and skills in other countries.” Instead of talking about the government’s failure to fix any of the myriad problems this country has faced, we’re all talking about partygate. Doing small fixes to various things across the north and beyond does seem politically smart. I do wonder what Labour will do - they are trapped now into either saying they’ll do both the new and old project, or look like they’re letting down some.” Sir Keir said: "Winning in these Tory strongholds shows that people overwhelmingly want change and they're ready to put their faith in our changed Labour Party to deliver it.In his first interview since delivering his Tory conference speech in Manchester yesterday, the Prime Minister said the effective ban on smoking for young people was necessary because there was “no safe level of smoking”. I have the legal responsibility to take the decision. And I took the decision formally on Tuesday this week, and it was approved by the Cabinet on Wednesday morning and then announced by the Prime Minister at our conference, so all very straightforward. Britain’s economy has suffered its worst three months for more than a decade after official figures revealed output failed to grow once again in October.

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Told that in the past he had talked about the importance of an individual’s right to choose and asked why he had changed his mind, Mr Sunak said: “You know, I do and as a Conservative measures to restrict choice are never easy. He told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “A quarter of our school leavers at the moment leave without basic numeracy and literacy, I don’t think that is right, so we are going to increase the funding for those pupils, particularly in FE colleges so they get the extra support they need to do English and maths after GCSEs to get those grades. Rishi Sunak declined to repeat Suella Braverman’s claim that a “hurricane” of mass migration was coming to Britain. After beating the SNP at a recent byelection in Rutherglen & Hamilton West in Scotland - a nation vital for any Labour government - and the July win in Selby & Ainsty, the party will feel momentum is on its side. The facts have changed, the costs of the project have escalated, the patterns of travel have changed post-pandemic.Rishi Sunak’s decision to scrap the northern leg of HS2 could deter large international companies from choosing to invest in the UK, the Labour chairwoman of the Public Accounts Committee has suggested.