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Sadiq Khan’s Christmas wishlist
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Election season can be a fruitful time for local councils to stick their hands out and plead with prospective governments to turn on the taps for their part of the country. With Labour and the Conservatives both falling over themselves to spend big, and prove to voters austerity is over, this may be [...]
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Labour Launches It’s Most Radical Manifesto Ever
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Labour launched its general election manifesto yesterday, which includes plans for the renationalisation of Energy, Rail, Mail, Free Broadband and a windfall tax on oil firms.Leader Jeremy Corbyn said it was "a manifesto of hope" and promised "a green transformation" of the economy.But a party confe [...]
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The Liberal Democrats manifesto’s 12 key policies explained
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The Liberal Democrats have launched their 2019 election manifesto, with the slogan Stop Brexit Build A Brighter Future. It sets out the polices the party aims to introduce should it win the election. The full document runs to 96 pages and contains pledges on a variety of subjects, with Brexit and t [...]
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Labour Pledges £60 Billion for Home Energy Upgrades
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Labour is pledging to cut UK carbon emissions by 10% through the largest home improvement programme for decades. A Labour government would fund £60bn of energy-saving upgrades to low-income households over the next decade while wealthier households would receive interest-free loans for enhancements [...]
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Is Boris Lying To His One-Nation Tory MPs About A No ‘No-Deal’ Brexit Election Manifesto?
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Should’ve gone to Brex savers? When Boris Johnson got his first pair of glasses a few years back, he admitted his vanity prevented him from wearing them regularly. “It’s a point of machismo... I use them [only] if I have to,” he said. A year later, he finally confessed: “I’m now so sho [...]
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Labour’s Election – It Won’t Be Like 1983…
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The last time Labour fought a general election campaign on a true 'left-wing' manifesto was in 1983.  It was an unmitigated disaster. The manifesto itself was dubbed as 'The longest suicide note in history' by the Labour MP the late Gerald Kaufman and other commentators. Now in 2017, Labour i [...]
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The Labour party 2017 UK general election manifesto – An analysis
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The first in a new mini-series, analysing the manifestos of the major political parties at the 2017 UK general election. My twitter: https://twitter.com/kflogan Backup channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYbGeTvLoXoBaTP-i96UtZw Logical Llama & Skeptical Squirrel channel: https://www.youtube [...]
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