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Prime Minister Boris Johnson during a media briefing in Downing Street, London, on coronavirus
BRITAIN’S democracy “cannot hinge on a gentleman’s agreement,” Labour insisted yesterday as the party proposed a rewrite of the rules that govern public life.
Deputy leader Angela Rayner accused Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government of corruption as she set out proposals to overhaul the standards system that applies to MPs and ministers.
Delivering a speech at the Institute for Government think tank, Ms Rayner said: “The next Labour government will act to stamp out the corruption that Boris Johnson and his government have polluted our democracy with.”
Sir Keir faces backlash for continuing to enable the genocide in Gaza
The electorate see no evidence of the government’s promises of change, and the good jobs and decent pay that people are crying out for. Bold action is needed right now, warns SHARON GRAHAM
From Gaza complicity to welfare cuts chaos, Starmer’s baggage accumulates, and voters will indeed find ‘somewhere else’ to go — to the Greens, nationalists, Lib Dems, Reform UK or a new, working-class left party, writes NICK WRIGHT