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Category: conservatives

  • Tories slammed over ‘divisive’ plans to remove foreign nationals’ right to social housing

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    https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/tories-slammed-over-divisive-plans-remove-foreign-nationals-right-social-housing

     DIVISIVE: Shadow work and pensions secretary Helen Whately

    FOREIGN nationals would lose their right to social housing in Britain if the Tories return to power, the party announced on Friday in new “divisive” plans.

    Under the proposals, about 230,000 homes would become available by removing foreign nationals’ entitlement to social housing, with affected tenants required to move out within six months.

    Foreign nationals with settled status, refugee status, or specific humanitarian protections currently qualify for social housing, while asylum seekers are generally ineligible.

    Any single person in social housing who is not a UK, Irish or EU citizen would lose their home, the Conservatives say, including those with children.

    Anyone with EU settled status would be exempt, but couples where neither partner holds British, EU or settled status would lose their entitlement.

    …

    The plans were condemned by the housing charity Shelter.

    Chief executive Sarah Elliott said: “These divisive plans would brutally kick people out of their homes, including thousands of families and pensioners who have lived in them for decades.

    “And let’s not forget that social tenants pay rent, which goes back to the public purse and into society.

    “It is completely senseless to ruin people’s lives, drive up homelessness and put extreme pressure on councils.

    …

    https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/tories-slammed-over-divisive-plans-remove-foreign-nationals-right-social-housing

  • Most Britons say Nigel Farage is ‘very sleazy’

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    https://yougov.com/en-gb/articles/55146-most-britons-say-nigel-farage-is-very-sleazy

    Belief Reform UK is sleazy has grown in the last two years, and is now seen as sleazier than the Labour government

    Key takeaways

    • 73% of Britons describe Nigel Farage as sleazy, including 56% thinking he is *very* sleazy
    • This includes 40% of Reform UK voters seeing Farage as sleazy
    • Belief Reform UK as a party is sleazy has increased by 18 points over the last two years, with the public now more likely to consider them to be dodgy than Labour
    • 77% of the public feel British governments are generally sleazy
    • Keir Starmer is seen as sleazy by 51% of Britons, with 42% saying the same of Zack Polanski and 34-36% of Kemi Badenoch or Andy Burnham

    …

    https://yougov.com/en-gb/articles/55146-most-britons-say-nigel-farage-is-very-sleazy

  • Government watchdog calls for lobbying crackdown

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    https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/government-watchdog-calls-lobbying-crackdown

     People walking over Westminster Bridge with the Elizabeth Tower, or Big Ben, and the Houses of Parliament in the background in Westminster, central London, June 22, 2026

    IT is time for a clampdown on lobbying abuses, the government’s ethics adviser said today.

    In a report widely welcomed by campaigners, the Ethics and Integrity Commission (EIC) recommended a tenfold increase in amount rule-breaking lobbyists are fined, to £75,000.

    The EIC also slammed the system for ensuring transparency by lobbyists as “wholly inadequate.”

    The government should urgently create a register of all lobbying activity to replace the current regime, which does not require in-house lobbyists employed by tech giants, arms monopolies and foreign companies to detail their interactions with ministers, the commission said.

    Unlock Democracy chief executive Tom Brake backed the report, saying: “The EIC is right — Britain’s lobbying rules are not fit for purpose.

    “A single, searchable database bringing together government and lobbyists’ disclosures would be a big win for transparency.

    “Instead of today’s fragmented picture, the public would have a clear view of who is lobbying government, on whose behalf and about what.”

    …

    Article continues at https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/government-watchdog-calls-lobbying-crackdown

  • Farage Stunt Flops as Reform Cash Questions Multiply

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    https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/farage-stunt-flops-reform-cash-questions-multiply

     Nigel Farage may have landed himself in a humiliating contest with Count Binface

    NIGEL FARAGE’S desperate by-election gambit has descended into farce as his Reform party was rocked by fresh funding revelations.

    It emerged that the Reform boss’s £5 million donation from crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne, and other cash for the party, was referred to the National Crime Agency as suspicious.

    Labour Party chair Anna Turley called the news “astonishing and deeply serious” and called on Mr Farage to “come clean and co-operate” with the agency.

    The fresh scandal about Mr Farage’s funding, first reported by the Guardian, came as he faced the prospect of a hot summer campaigning to keep his Clacton seat in the face of a challenge by Count Binface.

    The perennial comedy candidate was the only confirmed opponent to Mr Farage in the by-election he provoked to regain control of a media narrative over sleaze which was gradually paralysing his political operation.

    However, the Tories, Labour, Greens, Liberal Democrats and Restore parties all called Reform’s bluff by confirming that they would not stand in the by-election, describing it as a farce.

    The local Green party was the last to declare its abstention, issuing a statement saying “we have no intention of helping to legitimise a by-election that appears designed not to serve local residents but to serve Nigel Farage’s personal political ambitions.

    “This contest is not about the people of Clacton. It is about one politician placing himself at the centre of a media spectacle and expecting local residents to play supporting roles in a drama of his own making.”

    …

    Article continues at https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/farage-stunt-flops-reform-cash-questions-multiply

    Reform 2025 Ltd's Director Nigel Farage discusses his five million pounds gift from Crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne. He tells nosey parkers to mind their own business and suggests that you don't entertain the notion that even some of it could be dirty money from international money laundering
    Reform 2025 Ltd’s Director Nigel Farage discusses his five million pounds gift from Crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne. He tells nosey parkers to mind their own business and suggests that you don’t entertain the notion that even some of it could be dirty money from international money laundering. FM, I’ve done it again

  • Morning Star: Josh Simons in Downing Street would poison a Burnham premiership from the start

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    https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/josh-simons-downing-street-would-poison-burnham-premiership-start

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    Reports that McSweeney’s successor Josh Simons will head Burnham’s No 10 policy unit suggest this is part of a wider ruling-class project to reassemble as much of the Mandelson-McSweeney project as possible and ensure it remains the dominating influence in government.

    Simons headed Labour Together when it hired private investigators to smear and intimidate journalists who had helped expose its financial misconduct, notably Holden but including the Morning Star’s Andrew Murray.

    It would be the height of folly for Burnham to give Simons a political role, whether or not this was the gentlemen’s agreement that saw Simons resign his Makerfield seat to let Burnham run.

    It would reinforce the “jobs for the boys” impression of government by clique and confirm that the system looks after its own, no matter how outrageous their behaviour.

    It would show that the disgraced think tank is still in charge …

    https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/josh-simons-downing-street-would-poison-burnham-premiership-start

    dizzy: Looks like we have no change apart from the front man. I am disappointed in those that abandoned their stated intentions and contributed to achieving this … It wasn’t without warning, was it?