
Your Party’s Sultana suggests ‘electoral alliances’ could help stop Farage – UK politics live
Sultana says Labour party has ‘left the scene’ as she says she ‘gets on really well’ with Greens’ PolanskiRounding up his interview, Trevor Phillips asked Helen Whately about the Guardian’s investigation into Nigel Farage’s alleged racist and antisemitic behaviour as a teenager towards fellow Dulwich college pupils. She suggested that the Reform leader appears not to be giving “straight answers” when asked about his past behaviour, and ruled out any pact with Farage’s party at the next general election.“He needs to give people a straight answer,” Whately said.The number one reason why people, young people, are becoming Neet – not in employment, education or training – is because they’re moving on to sickness benefits. Yet we just saw a few months ago where Labour was attempting to make some reforms to this problem (people going on to sickness benefits). They u-turned, they abandoned their reforms. Continue reading...
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