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SHOCKING: 17 - What They Never Told You

Who’s to blame for 12 years’ desecration of our NHS? Doctors, says Thérèse Coffey

Yet another new health secretary has arrived with all kinds of whizzo ideas, says the Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

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This week we will see Truss unchained. Labour must be rubbing its hands with glee

With official mourning over, the new prime minister will start to lay out her wilfully unpopular policies, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

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MPs should have to walk in weary nurses’ shoes

Letters: Drusilla Long praises NHS workers and supports potential strike action by them, and Bill Kingdom suggests empathy training for MPs. Plus Alan Kembery and Chris Osman lament a health service starved of adequate funding

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Dissenting voices on royal mourning have been silenced. This is ‘cancel culture’

Fear of being attacked by a rightwing mob is stifling freedom of expression following the Queen’s death, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

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Tin-eared Liz Truss is obsessed by tax cuts, so why shouldn’t NHS nurses strike?

If ministers can afford £150bn for energy bills, they can afford to pay nurses more, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

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The Queen has left a void that Britain will struggle to fill

Letters: We should mourn a paragon of duty and devotion, say readers in response to the death of Queen Elizabeth II, but also take stock of the role of the monarchy

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By rejecting a windfall tax, Truss has painted herself into a corner

The ‘handout’ of capped bills is not enough to buy off voters outraged at the excess profits of energy companies, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

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No vision, no charisma, no real plan: Labour has nothing to fear from Liz Truss

This PM is good news for all who want the Tories out, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

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The UK is at a perilous tipping point. But what is Truss planning to do about it?

Each day brings more news about a spiralling catastrophe – the economy is crying out for major government intervention, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

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Meet Liz Truss’s biggest fan – a man whose blind faith reveals a party increasingly driven by ideology

The end is nigh when Conservative stalwarts put a vision of a free-market new Jerusalem above winning elections, says the Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

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Police failures, soaring waiting lists, pool closures: one day’s news in Tory Britain

Look at the condition of Britain’s public services and despair – this is where the ‘small state’ gets you, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

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If the Murdoch press is so panicked about recession, why did it back austerity and Brexit?

As Truss and Sunak slug it out, rightwing papers are waking up to the looming catastrophe, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

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The Tories are swerving wildly to the right as Truss and Sunak promise the impossible

On most issues – from immigration and equalities to tax cuts – the two candidates for PM are hugely out of step with voters, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

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Keir Starmer’s tepid policies are alienating Labour’s core supporters

Letters: Labour may be sowing the seeds of its own destruction, writes Dr Peter Mangan, while Jacqueline Mackenzie says she has become politically homeless. Plus letters from John Bourn and Ted Shrecker

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Not radical enough? Starmer’s caution may yet carry Labour to power

Some of the party faithful are impatient for more, but they must keep their eyes fixed firmly on the prize, says Polly Toynbee, Guardian columnist

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Myths about generous benefits mask the truth of Tory Britain: shamefully low taxes for the rich

Until a hero like Marcus Rashford forces people to confront the reality of hungry children, misinformation and complacency about the lives of the poorest reign, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

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Would-be Tory leaders aren’t facing up to dire state of the NHS

Sunak and Truss have little to say to voters about the colossal staff shortages revealed in a new Commons report, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

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Weeks of Truss and Sunak tearing lumps out of each other should bring nothing but joy for Labour

Whoever wins this race will inherit the social and economic failings of the austerity era – all of which they voted for, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

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What an embarrassment that debate was: Labour will be laughing all the way to the polls

Forget the climate crisis and cost of living – the candidates for next prime minister can only offer personal vendettas, ambition and malice, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

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Suella Braverman exits stage right, but the Mad Hatter’s Tory tea party goes on and on

While voters worry about prices and bills, the contenders are in a wonderland of their own, writes Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

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Tory chancers are turning the leadership contest into a wild battle of extremists

Would-be leaders are trying to woo party members with a dangerous mix of fantasy policies and wild tax cuts, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

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Boris Johnson is resigning. What now? Our panel’s verdict

As the PM finally agrees to go, our panellists discuss how his succession will play out and the legacy he has left

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Finally, Boris Johnson’s ministers have had enough of defending the monstrously indefensible

This cabinet of accomplices has calculated that loyalty is doing their careers more harm than good, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

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Families facing income woes on a par with Greece and Cyprus? That’s ‘global Britain’

A new report shows household income growth in the UK has plummeted. This is hardly the prosperity we were promised, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

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Beware the vultures circling over the NHS

Letters: Dr Peter Wimpenny on the threat of privatisation and what Nye Bevan would make of those who seek the destruction of the health service. Plus, Prof Alan Walker on why it should focus on prevention

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