September 19, 2022
The Queen's funeral was planned for Monday September 19th. Businesses were falling over themselves trying to send out messages of grief and announcements of closures. It was clear that the day was going to be similar to Christmas, except that television was going to be hijacked. It was almost as if we would be forced to mourn.
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September 12, 2022
When Queen Elizabeth died at the age of 96, the response was predictably hysterical. The BBC suspended all its regular programming and replaced it with wall to wall coverage of the event. Presenter Clive Myrie said the energy price crisis was "of course insignificant now" given the "gravity of the situation". And the government announced a ten-day mourning period.
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September 5, 2022
One highlight of the Tory leadership contest was Liz Truss appearing to have difficulty finding the exit at a press conference. Another was Rishi Sunak being asked at a hustings how he would "suppress" Nicola Sturgeon. In the end, the decision was made by Tory party members, just 0.2% of the population.
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August 29, 2022
On the day that Ofgem, the UK’s energy industry regulator, announced a rise in the energy price cap, meaning average household bills would go from £1971 a year to £3549, nobody from the government was available to be interviewed about it.
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August 22, 2022
Former Brexit negotiator Lord Frost said Scottish independence was “morally wrong” and called for devolution to “evolve back”. He also described the Scottish Government as a “subordinate entity” and suggested making independence impossible by calling for three-quarters of Holyrood seats to be pro-independence over the span of a decade before it was an option.
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August 15, 2022
Anas Sarwar and Douglas Ross shared a stage at the Edinburgh Fringe as part of Ian Dale’s 'For The Many' show, a partnership that the SNP described as “less surprising than being handed a festival flyer on the Royal Mile”.
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August 8, 2022
At a tory gathering in Tunbridge Wells, Rishi Sunak admitted he had worked to divert money from 'deprived urban areas' when chancellor. And The Guardian reported that, rather than levelling up, some wealthy areas of England received 10 times more funding than the poorest.
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August 1, 2022
Sir Keir Starmer said, "As leader of the Labour Party, I’m focused on getting us into power." So focused that he didn't seem to mind how far right he took the party. He sacked frontbencher Sam Tarry for attending an RMT picket line and saying that workers should get pay rises in line with inflation, which you might have thought would be Labour policy.
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July 25, 2022
In a bizarre rant, Tory leadership favourite Liz Truss declared: “We import two-thirds of our cheese. That is a disgrace.” And Truss's tax cut plans were branded “socialism” by her rival, former chancellor Rishi Sunak.
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July 18, 2022
Tory leadership election special! Penny Mordaunt said she wanted to be prime minister from the age of nine and likened her campaign to Paul McCartney playing his old hits. Liz Truss had difficulty finding both the entrance and the exit at her campaign launch. And Tom Tugendhat never missed an opportunity to remind everyone he'd been in the military. Meanwhile, Labour leader Keir Starmer seemed to be trying to out-tory them, ruling out joining the single market "forever" and scrapping a pledge to end NHS private sector outsourcing.
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