🟥 @resfoundation calculates £20bn-£40bn of tax hikes or spending cuts still needed despite today's corporation tax hike reversal U-turn to ensure PM Truss and new chancellor Hunt meet fiscal targets (debt falling as a share of the economy)
The Tories closed UK’s largest gas storage facility in the UK 5 years ago
It accounted for 70% of the UK’s gas storage capacity & could store 3,310,000,000 cubic metres of gas
Liz Truss was the Minister in charge at the time.
COVID-19: Things everyone should know (Part 1: Immune System)
With poor public health messaging, the general public doesn't seem to know some important things about how COVID-19 and the immune system actually works. 🧵1/
REVEALED: the full list of 50 VIP Test and Trace firms that Government denied existed.
We're now on the hunt for the names of the Ministers and politically connected individuals who referred them. https://t.co/bH69IBbbtC
When Liz Truss rejects a windfall tax on the £170,000,000,000 profits oil and gas giants are expected to make, it's worth remembering:
She's a former Shell employee whose party has taken more than £1,500,000 in donations from the oil and gas industry since the last election.
Suella Braverman is the 5th Tory Home Secretary in 12yrs. Here’s the Tory record so far👇
- 7000 fewer police officers
- 6000 fewer neighbourhood police
- 1000 detective vacancies
- Double % of people saying they never see police on the streets
- Just 1 in 20 crimes charged/1
The legacy of power, politics and failure in a single picture.
The reality of what has been achieved. This is how England looked at 6:30am this morning. The legalised dumping of sewage onto our beaches witnessed in real-time.
Arch-brexiteer Tim Martin of Wetherspoons is furious because the introduction of standard EU tarriffs for trade with a 3rd country since Brexit are affecting his business. He wants tarriff-free trade. Like we had when we were in the EU. Thick as a submarine door, yet somehow rich