🚨 NEW: Rupert Lowe has pulled out of his upcoming appearance on the Daily T podcast, hosted by Camilla Tominey and Tim Stanley, scheduled for this Monday.
He was due to discuss the Makerfield by-election and other hot topics of the day.
🚨 NEW: Robert Kenyon, Reform UK’s Makerfield candidate, previously blamed Hillary Clinton for the 2017 Manchester Arena bombing.
‘With a smile and lipstick… she created ISIS with her foreign policy... had she stayed out of Libya, the bombing wouldn’t have happened’.
🚨 NEW: Lee Anderson has said that he ‘stands by every word’ he said after being named in a letter reporting Reform UK to the equalities watchdog for alleged Islamophobia.
He said that there is ‘no such thing as Islamophobia’.
🚨 BREAKING: HMRC has given trans taxpayers lifetime access to a VIP phone line which answers calls twice as fast.
It claims access is needed to ensure ‘greater protection’ of trans people under equality laws.
🚨 NEW: Kemi Badenoch has announced that the Conservatives’ strategy to win Aberdeen South will be to make the by-election a referendum on the oil and gas industry.
🚨 BREAKING: The Green Party’s candidate in the Makerfield by-election, Sarah Wakefield, runs a charity which calls for British farming to be ‘decolonised’ with ‘inclusive spaces’.
It also shared a report arguing perfectionism is an example of ‘white supremacy culture’.
🚨 NEW: The Conservatives have announced that they would reverse the air conditioning ban put in place on new properties in 2021 by Robert Jenrick, while he was Housing Secretary.
His changes prioritised passive cooling methods like ventilation to meet net-zero targets.
🚨 NEW: Nick Tenconi, of UKIP, says Restore and the Tories should not be splitting the vote in Makerfield:
‘Restore are currently making sure that the online right pumps out as much information that splitting the vote is not even a thing, which is so disingenuous, it's a lie.’