MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The United Kingdom’s National Audit Office on Friday issued a 23-page report intended to learn from the government’s actions leading up to Brexit, which officially took place on 31 January 2020. The report found that government departments spent a collective $5.8 billion and mobilised 22,000 employees between the June 2016 vote and the Brexit date. A tendency for secrecy in the Department for Exiting the European Union (DExEU), a department set up to specifically to prepare for Brexit, hampered the movement of information across departments, the report went on to detail. “DExEU kept a tight hold on communications, […]
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It has taken this excuse of a Labour leader only three months to expose himself as a useless toady of the British Establishment, despised by the genuine socialists left within his party and feted and promoted by the mainstream media who see one of their own at the summit of the party which is supposed to be about the working class and radical change. Tony Blair turned Labour into the red Tories. Starmer clearly intends to reassert that label. The unprecedented tsunami of lies, distortions and scare stories promoted by the mainstream media against former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn was directly […]
The ruling Conservative Government planned to the free school meal voucher system which had been provided for low-income children while school ended over the summer holidays. A campaign by footballer Marcus Rashford put pressure on the government to maintain the scheme in order to combat increasing financial vulnerability. Westminster announced on Tuesday that it will be extending the free school meal voucher system in England over the summer holidays in a reversal of its previous pledge to end them. The Prime Minister’s spokesperson said that the government “fully understands” that the children and parents are facing an “unprecedented situation over the summer”. […]
UK 03:46 GMT 31.05.2020Get short URL The UK’s Labour Party entered 2020 at a historical low, having suffered their worst loss since 1935 in the December general election. With the government struggling to tackle the COVID-19 crisis, the PM’s top aide embroiled in scandal, and a new leader of Her Majesty’s opposition entering the stage, Labour’s electoral prospects have suddenly risen. Britain’s ruling Conservatives have suffered a drop in their electoral prospects, according to a new poll by Opinium Research on Saturday. The poll shows a 4% decline in voter intention for the Tories to 43%, while the opposition Labour Party […]