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order-order.com | Eleanor Wheatley
Yet another charity has fallen victim to Reeves’ tax raid. A 30-year-old charity, Bridges Community Trust, has been forced to shut up shop after “running out of money” – following the bankruptcy of Labour-run Nottingham City Council in 2023, with Reeves’ NICs hikes being the final nail in the coffin.
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1 week ago | 
order-order.com | Eleanor Wheatley
YouGov has just dropped its latest favourability ratings, polling over 2,000 Britons. Rachel Reeves has plunged to her lowest ever score, clocking in at a dire net -48%. Even Labour voters aren’t buying what she’s selling, with 43% viewing her negatively, compared to just 33% positively. Somehow Guido’s not surprised…Keir Starmer has dropped four points since mid-March to a net -34% rating.
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1 week ago | 
order-order.com | Eleanor Wheatley
FLASHBACK: All the Times Starmer Couldn’t Say What a Woman Is Today’s Supreme Court ruling that defines a woman as “biologically female” has been hailed as a major victory for women’s rights campaigners across the UK. Labour is now framing the decision as a validation of Starmer’s efforts to steer the party towards a more ‘commonsense’ approach, while shifting blame for past confusion over sex and gender onto Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership.
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1 week ago | 
order-order.com | Eleanor Wheatley
Red Ed’s net zero dream is crumbling under the weight of its own poster child – solar power. A new report by Britain’s National Energy System Operator (NESO) forecasts that a flood of solar energy from solar farms this summer could swamp the national grid and throw it off balance, warning they may have to tell power stations to switch off to maintain flexibility.
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1 week ago | 
order-order.com | Eleanor Wheatley
Supreme Court: A Woman is a Biological Female mdi-fullscreen The UK’s Supreme Court has unanimously ruled that sex and woman definitions in Equality Act 2010 relates to “a biological woman and biological sex” after a long-running legal case brought against the Scottish Government by For Women Scotland. Major implications for single-sex spaces across the UK…
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1 week ago | 
order-order.com | Eleanor Wheatley
The UK’s prison estate is crumbling fast and after terrorist Hashem Abedi’s violent attack on prison officers at ‘supermax’ jail HMP Frankland (don’t worry, his knife and fork have now been replaced with a spork), tensions are high. Never fear, Shabana Mahmood is in charge…The Justice Secretary raised eyebrows last year when she conceded that even her own government’s prison expansion plan – to add 14,000 more places by 2031 – may not be adequate.
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1 week ago | 
order-order.com | Eleanor Wheatley
Rayner’s much-loathed Employment Rights Bill is now in the Lords, with Committee Stage kicking off on 29 April. Free speech warrior and Tory peer Lord Toby Young is already making use of his new role, tabling a series of amendments to block the ‘banter ban’ – Clause 20 – which would require employers to protect staff from third-party “non-sexual harassment”.
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1 week ago | 
order-order.com | Eleanor Wheatley
Coking coal and iron from the US are being moved to Scunthorpe from the port at Immingham as we speak to keep the fires burning at British Steel’s plant. Shipments, including from Sweden and Australia, were to be ditched by Jingye prior to the state takeover of operations…After industry minister Sarah Jones refused to rule out another Chinese firm taking over British Steel business secretary Jonathan Reynolds has refused to rule out job losses.
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1 week ago | 
order-order.com | Eleanor Wheatley
Almost 40% of SME owners have either fled the UK or are considering leaving, according to a Handelsbanken Wealth & Asset Management survey of 200 business owners. Firms are pointing the finger at Reeves’ ‘jobs tax’ and Rayner’s ‘Union’ Employment Rights Bill – clobbering them with taxes and rising costs, forcing them to pack their bags. Taking their capital and jobs with them…Spain tops the list as the preferred haven for escaping Labour’s Britain, followed by the US and then France.
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1 week ago | 
order-order.com | Eleanor Wheatley
Nigel Farage is in a working men’s club in County Durham today making a play for Labour’s heartlands as Reform ramps up its local election campaign. Farage will be going in with a spring in his step after The Sun splashed a Survation poll showing 68% of voters believe “Britain is Broken” and that Labour is holding on to fewer than three-quarters of its 2024 voters. Expect talk of “parking tanks on Labour’s lawn”…Reform UK are parking our tanks on Labour’s lawn.
