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Working people will have had to suspend their disbelief yesterday when Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg called on the Tory Party to “come clean” over the impact of planned cuts to public services.
The lonely Lib Dem leader has spent recent weeks desperately trying to distance himself from the government he joined in 2010.
He is no longer to be found at David Cameron’s side at the weekly Prime Minister’s questions slugfest, grinning idiotically as the massed ranks of braying Tory goons egg on their scarlet-faced pimpernel.
The new Scottish Parliament looks set to continue a cycle of managerial tinkering while public services face the axe, writes STEPHEN LOW
Once derided by Farage as a ‘fraud,’ Jenrick has defected to Reform, bringing experience and political ruthlessness to the populist right — and raising the unsettling prospect of a Farage-led movement with a seasoned operative pulling the strings, says ANDREW MURRAY
Labour must not allow unelected members of the upper house to erode a single provision of the Employment Rights Bill, argues ANDY MCDONALD MP
Every Starmer boast about removing asylum-seekers probably wins Reform another seat while Labour loses more voters to Lib Dems, Greens and nationalists than to the far right — the disaster facing Labour is the leadership’s fault, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP