October 25, 2024
Health Secretary Wes Streeting pledged to “hold the door wide open” for private investment in the health service. "We will go further than New Labour ever did. I want the NHS to form partnerships with the private sector that goes beyond just hospitals.” The SNP were forced to propose a bill in Westminster to “keep the NHS in public hands”.
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October 19, 2024
Health Secretary Wes Streeting announced that the obese unemployed would be given weight loss drugs to 'get them back to work'. Yes, really.
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October 12, 2024
After the departure of the centre-right candidate, James Cleverly, the Tory leadership was whittled down to two rabid right-wingers, Robert Jenrick and Kemi Badenoch. Moderate Conservatives threatened to throw away their ballots.
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October 5, 2024
The BBC had to cancel an interview with Boris Johnson after presenter Laura Kuenssberg accidentally sent the former prime minister her briefing notes. Johnson has a new memoir, 'Unleashed', due for publication.
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September 28, 2024
The Scottish Conservatives announced that their new branch manager was Russell Findlay MSP, replacing Douglas Ross. There was a collective 'who?' on Twitter. In his acceptance speech, Findlay made a joke about sausages, referencing Keir Starmer's slip-up a few days before.
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September 21, 2024
Scottish Secretary Ian Murray said Labour has a ‘big hill to climb’ to win the next Scottish election in 2026, due to the 'dire' economic conditions and the country's volatile electorate. However, he also stated: “I’m confident that we’ll get to 2026 having shown enough progress with the key priorities of the Scottish people to show that we’re a competent government.”
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September 20, 2024
This cartoon was commissioned by The National and published in their independence referendum 10-year anniversary edition on September 18th 2024.
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September 7, 2024
Labour's Scottish branch manager Anas Sarwar was named 'MSP of the Year' at the Holyrood Garden Party & Political Awards. The judges said Sarwar had overseen a dramatic revival in his party’s fortunes in Scotland. Go figure.
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August 31, 2024
Prime Minister Keir Starmer reportedly had a painting of Margaret Thatcher (originally commissioned by Gordon Brown) removed from Downing Street as he found it "unsettling".
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August 24, 2024
In 2022, Keir Starmer said: “The Labour Party has a fully costed plan to freeze energy prices, and we’ll pay for that with a windfall tax on energy giants.” In May 2024, Labour promised to lower household energy bills by £400. Instead, they let Ofgem raise the price cap by 10%, meaning bills would rise by £149. Energy Secretary Ed Miliband blamed it on "the toxic legacy left by the previous government". And this came on the back of scrapping winter fuel payments for pensioners.
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