Breaking Britain returns, this time it’s the schools
Why is so much of Britain’s infrastructure literally falling apart?
13 Sep 2023
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Press release on the Autumn Statement.
Lib Dems condemn “chaotic and incompetent” budget
17 Nov 2022
Sewage in our Rivers
The sheer quantity of raw sewage being dumped into Britain’s rivers and coastal areas is a scandal and a disgrace.
14 Sep 2022
Students as others see them - article in The Economist magazine
FOR a glimpse of how student housing has changed, drive into Newcastle from the east. First, the route passes through Heaton, a former working-class suburb crammed with terraced housing, the sort of digs long occupied by students. It then continues to Manors, where student accommodation is of a different class: high-rise, purpose-built towers jut out, with more rising from the ground. On a weekday morning during the summer holidays, the side streets are eerily empty, so dominated is the area by students.
25 Aug 2017
Bogus Student Visa Figures ‘Happened On Theresa May’s Watch’
Official stats show 97% went back home when they were supposed to. Over-inflated figures on the number of international students over-staying their visas in the UK were put out on Theresa May's watch, the Lib Dems say.
KFPR
25 Aug 2017
Farron - Transport Secretary’s comments show contempt for Cumbria and the North
South Lakeland MP Tim Farron has hit out at the government for ignoring Cumbria and the rest of the north of England after the Transport Secretary stated that it was up to the north to sort out their own train issues.
25 Aug 2017
Piece by piece, the case for severing Britain’s ties to Europe is falling apart
With Brexiteers' migration claims exposed as false, politicians must embrace the 'Norway option' of single market membership without delay Those who switched off with a sigh of relief in July may not have noticed. But something big is slowly stirring in the undergrowth of British politics. Fact by fact, announcement by announcement, the case for Britain to remain in the European Union's single market and customs union is growing stronger and more irresistible by the day. Such an outcome is most definitely not this government's policy. But, this autumn, something will have to give.
MK
25 Aug 2017
Theresa May under fire as student visa myth exposed
Prime minister left looking isolated as figures show fewer than 5,000 foreign students stayed on in UK after visas expired Theresa May's determination to continue counting foreign students in the government's immigration target left her increasingly isolated on Thursday night, after official figures revealed that fewer than 5,000 a year stay on after their visa expires.
HSRMJG
25 Aug 2017
Anita Day: A bad weekend for Grantham
Last weekend Grantham was in the news twice and for all the wrong reasons. First came the shocking images of the National Front march on Saturday, which made the national newspapers. Estimates vary of the number of alt-right supporters there - and some claimed that many were not local.
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24 Aug 2017