A Tory peer is to quit the Conservatives & retire from the Lords after facing suspension over PPE contract deals
It comes after an investigation found he breached Lords code of conduct for helping a subsidiary of a company he chaired, to get contracts
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The home heating oil situation is terrible for many unlucky enough to be about to refill. The outrage is this is an unregulated, unprotected, market (we've long called for that to change). We are subserving many, especially those who live in rural communities.
Only last year, Christopher Harborne donated £9m to Reform UK.
Now he’s given them another £3m.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/mar/05/crypto-investor-christopher-harbone-reform-uk-donation
If you give through @crowdfunderuk you can set the automatic ‘tip’ of 20% of what you give to zero by clicking ‘enter custom amount’ and putting in £0. This is a private profitable company which takes 1.9%+20p+VAT of what you give from the charity and 2.4%+20p+VAT from others
Who do you trust more? A UK parliament dishonestly claiming credit for a huge new Scottish windfarm or the Scottish Parliament that actually granted consent for it?
He's got some nerve!
Energy firms CANNOT bill you for energy used over 12mths ago. Yet many do. My evidence to Commons Energy Committee on this including how the rules should be changed.
Please share so people know their rights.
Why is it that "tough choices" are always about harming the poor and disabled, and never about making the very wealthiest pay their fair share?
metro.co.uk/2025/03/05/j...
Her best friend (if she's got any) should tell her to shut up and get lost. She's a stranger to truth and reality.
The English and Welsh people made that decision, Northern Ireland and Scotland did not agree but our opinion was not respected. England and Wales got what they voted for, Northern Ireland has the best of both worlds and Scotland's opinion has been totally ignored.
In case you happen to read Camilla Tominey in theTelegraph abt Kay Burley leaving Sky, there’s at least 1 inaccuracy in the piece
She mentions Newsnight & claims it’s ‘haemorrhaging viewers’
Not true
The audience figures are up 30% since the new format began last May
Word of the Day is ‘bayard’ (16th century): one who has the supreme self-confidence of ignorance.
UK govt targets old, sick, disabled.
Long-term sick need to find jobs. Face benefit cuts of £5k a year.
This after two child benefit cap, winter fuel payment cut.
6.3m await hospital appointment, 2.8m chronically ill
Govt won't tax wealth; increase capital gains, corporate tax
archive.ph/zDPGT
