11 h. ago Lib Dems call for probe into claims test touts are paying driving instructors

Block-booking is said to contribute to the large driving test backlog.

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33 h. ago Labour loses further London councillors amid wave of defections in capital

Labour has been haemorrhaging councillors in the capital to the Lib Dems, Greens, Tories and independents for several months

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4 d. ago John Swinney ‘lied & breached ministerial code’ claims rivals as they call for probe

JOHN Swinney should face a probe into whether his own budget “lies” have breached the ministerial code, the Tories demanded. The First Minister has repeatedly refused to admit the SNP breached their 2021 election promise to freeze income tax rates and bands, despite hiking the levies twice. The Scottish Tories have now written to the...

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4 d. ago Angela Rayner leads push to speed up workers' rights bill after Government U

MPs are furious at attempts by unelected Tory and Lib Dem peers to block the flagship Employment Rights Bill, which risks delaying vital protections for millions of workers

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5 d. ago MP demands water boss resigns after thousands in Tunbridge Wells without water for three days

Lib Dem MP Mike Martin says situation is ‘utter disgrace’

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6 d. ago Police Scotland urged to reopen probe into sex claims against Al Fayed

Police previously closed an investigation into a ‘non-recent sexual assault’.

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1 week ago Reform UK in Scotland urged not to take any money from Russia as Holyrood election looms

EXCLUSIVE: The Scottish Lib Dems made the demand amid concerns of Russian interference in Western democracies.

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1 week ago Scottish Parliament committee structure a 'joke' and debate quality 'woeful'

Alex Cole-Hamilton blasted the ‘woeful’ standard of debate in the Scottish Parliament

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2 w. ago Ofcom receives complaints over GB News item on defendants’ ‘foreign

Lib Dem MP says way figures were compiled on ‘non-British-sounding’ surnames in court was ‘frankly racist’GB News has been accused of risking inflaming tensions over crime committed by migrants after presenting unscientific research that counted the number of defendants with “foreign-sounding names”.Ofcom, the UK’s media regulator, has received complaints about a segment on the rightwing news channel last week that drew a link between “non-British” names and those in court charged with sex offences. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Scottish Lib Dems MP apologises for referring to asylum seekers as 'coloured people'

The Highlands MP has said he will undertake diversity and inclusion training after making the comments.

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3 w. ago Lib Dems accused of blocking sick pay for seven million people

Paul Nowak, head of the Trades Union Congress, is set to accuse the Lib Dems of holding up the Employment Rights Bill in the House of Lords, and breaking their own manifesto pledge

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3 w. ago Naga Munchetty 'under formal BBC probe as more complaints pile up after bullying and sex joke claims'

The BBC Breakfast presenter, 50, has been accused of ‘bullying’ a colleague and making a ‘wildly unprofessional’ off-air sex joke that left a staffer ‘humiliated’

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3 w. ago It would be financial suicide to levy a £30 billion windfall tax on banks

Our banks would have to consider severely curtail lending if the Lib Dem suggestion is ever implemented

Economics

3 w. ago Outrage as Lib Dem council rules migrant hotel protesters are 'far

Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council in Dorset voted overwhelmingly in favour of a motion condemning demonstrators outside three asylum hotels.

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3 w. ago Trump’s assault on BBC a ‘threat to national interest’, warns Lib Dem leader – latest updates

Nigel Farage says that US president complained ‘is this how you treat your best ally’ in reference to broadcasterWe have heard from Culture, Media and Sport committee chair Caroline Dinenage, who has suggested that the outgoing BBC director Tim Davie ignored an internal dossier into bias at the BBC (see post at 09.06 for more detail on the dossier).She said Davie “ignored” concerns raised in Michael Prescott’s report over the way the speech by Donald Trump was edited for Panorama.I’m very sad about Tim Davie stepping down. I think he was an effective leader at the BBC.I think he was a great champion for public service media, but there is no escaping the fact that he was very slow to act on this particular issue. But this isn’t the first time and on this particular issue, Michael Prescott’s report, he just didn’t take it seriously until it was too late.I would like to say it has been the privilege of my career to serve as the CEO of BBC News and to work with our brilliant team of jou...

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3 w. ago Mutinous Labour MPs warn Rachel Reeves of electoral meltdown if she breaks manifesto pledge with 2p tax hike

Rachel Reeves has been dropping heavy hints that income tax could go up in the package on November 26 - despite the move being explicitly ruled out in the manifesto.

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