'Crohn’s disease almost killed me', says Lib Dem deputy leader Daisy Cooper Daisy Cooper’s weight plummeted to just seven stone and she was given just four days to live unless she had major surgery Evening Standard · Sep 16, 2024
Starmer ‘very interested’ in Italy’s plan to offshore asylum applications in Albania, says Meloni – as it happened UK to contribute £4m to Italian project on irregular migration, PM announces The Guardian - UK · Sep 16, 2024
Tory leadership hopefuls focused on ‘weird’ issues, Lib Dem deputy claims Daisy Cooper said their ‘politics is weird, their choice of issues is weird, they talk about issues that are not relevant to most people in the country’ The Independent UK · Sep 15, 2024
Lib Dems say party stunts will continue as conference gets underway Daisy Cooper said she believed stunts ‘show you can do politics with some hope’. Evening Standard · Sep 15, 2024
Reeves warned she faces £8.6bn annual bill to save ‘broken’ social care sector Campaign groups have demanded a multibillion-pound funding settlement to begin fixing social care The Independent UK · Aug 25, 2024
Warning for new women MPs joining country’s ‘biggest boys’ club’ as record number elected Female MPs share experiences of abuse as well as advice for incoming cohort of women politicians The Independent UK · Jul 7, 2024
Rishi Sunak accused of failing to order probe into 17 potential breaches of ministerial code Rishi Sunak has been accused of eroding the public’s trust in politics by failing to order investigations into more than a dozen potential breaches of strict ethics rules during his time as prime minister. The Independent UK · Jun 26, 2024
Channel 4 election debate reaches new depths of futility Seven lesser candidates share existential crisis as they debate crime and immigration to negligible interest The Guardian - UK · Jun 18, 2024
Rayner and Mordaunt clash again in heated seven-way TV debate Tax and spending plans central themes as same lineup of panellists given second televisual outing The Guardian - UK · Jun 13, 2024
Rayner, Mordaunt, Farage and others quizzed on NHS, education and migration in general election debate clash – as it happened Party representatives asked how they would fix a health service that is ‘on its knees’ The Guardian - UK · Jun 13, 2024
Multiparty debate shows an audience tiring of the Labour-Tory slugging match There were no knock-out blows, but some refreshing arguments that don’t get aired when the two heavyweights dominate the ring, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr The Guardian - UK · Jun 7, 2024
Slanging matches and soundbites: debate delivers seven ways to make time drag Second TV outing manages to be simultaneously predictable, deadly dull and extremely bad-tempered The Guardian - UK · Jun 7, 2024
Labour and Tories renew clashes in ill-tempered second election debate Angela Rayner and Penny Mordaunt spar over taxes, defence and cost of living as others jostle for attention The Guardian - UK · Jun 7, 2024
Mordaunt condemns Sunak as ‘wrong’ over D-Day as TV debate becomes ‘unedifying’ row The seven-party television debate became a slanging match between Penny Mordaunt and Angela Rayner The Independent UK · Jun 7, 2024
The Guardian - UK · Jun 7, 2024 How will seven parties hope to make their mark in BBC election debate? With Penny Mordaunt, Angela Rayner, Daisy Cooper, Nigel Farage and more, expect sparky and chaotic exchanges
The Guardian - UK · Jun 4, 2024 Labour pledges to investigate treatment of migrant workers in care sector Exclusive: Yvette Cooper says a Labour government would instruct new enforcement body to act over alleged exploitation of workers
Evening Standard · Jun 3, 2024 Lib Dems spring a 'small boat crisis' on Rishi Sunak at Thames rowing club near London The PM was on a visit to Henley and was chatting away when suddenly the Lib-Dem vessel came motoring past on the Thames
The Guardian - UK · Jun 2, 2024 UK politics: SNP’s Swinney warns general election will be ‘the biggest challenge for years’ – as it happened New leader tells activists in Glasgow that they must demonstrate the ‘relevance’ of independence to the cost of living crisis
The Guardian - UK · May 24, 2024 A guide to the six main parties: what will be their campaign messages? Tories say stick to the plan, Labour wants change and Lib Dems, SNP, Greens and Reform fight for attention
The Guardian - UK · Apr 30, 2024 Slow 999 response times forcing many more people to find own way to A&E Figures for England obtained by Lib Dems show that 500,000 people in ‘very urgent’ need travelled to hospital without ambulance in 2023
The Guardian - UK · Apr 15, 2024 More than 2,000 NHS buildings in England older than NHS, figures show Lib Dems and health trusts say patient and staff safety being put at risk by poor state of ageing infrastructure
The Guardian - UK · Feb 12, 2024 More than 1.5m patients in England waited at least 12 hours in A&E in past year Lib Dems say last month an average of 5,735 people a day faced waits of 12 hours or more to be seen
The Independent UK · Jan 11, 2024 Ofcom asked to investigate GB News over Ed Davey Post Office attacks Lib Dems claim Nigel Farage criticism of party leader breached impartiality rules
The Guardian - UK · Jan 11, 2024 Lib Dems ask Ofcom to investigate GB News over Ed Davey criticism Party writes to regulator after Nigel Farage and Tory MPs singled out Davey in coverage of Post Office Horizon scandal
The National (Scotland) · Dec 30, 2023 Liz Truss resignation honours list branded ‘insult to people in Scotland’ Liz Truss’s long-awaited resignation honours list has been branded an “insult to people in Scotland”...