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80 MPs and peers write to Cooper demanding sanctions on Israel

Post author:Skwawkbox
Post published:14 July 2026
Post last modified:15 July 2026

More than 80 MPs and peers have written publicly to foreign secretary Yvette Cooper, demanding immediate sanctions on Israel for its Gaza genocide. Indefensible Leeds East Labour MP published a copy of the letter. It reminds Cooper of her government’s “indefensible” failure to do anything meaningful to curb Israel’s arrogant impunity or fulfil the UK’s obligations under international law: BREAKING: With @Imran_HussainMP and 80 other MPs and Lords, I have written to the Foreign Secretary calling for comprehensive sanctions on Israel. The world’s top court is clear. Israel’s occupation of Palestine is illegal – and Governments must act now to end…

Zia Yusuf called out over claim Reform MPs receive no security

Post author:Willem Moore
Post published:13 July 2026
Post last modified:13 July 2026

Zia Yusuf has received criticism over his claim that the state provides Reform MPs with “no protection whatsoever”. Given the way this headline is worded, many are (understandably) taking it to mean Reform MPs have been given police protection by the state. I want to clarify that the opposite is true. The state is providing no protection whatsoever. In fact, based on what I have seen in the… pic.twitter.com/TaFZzEMNkH — Zia Yusuf (@ZiaYusufUK) July 12, 2026 Zia Yusuf: Nobody ‘cares about security of Reform MPs’ The headline Yusuf was responding to read: Reform MPs given 24-hour protection in Widdecombe murder hunt…

Cross-party MPs urge Labour to drop £330m Palantir NHS contract

Post author:Cameron Baillie
Post published:10 July 2026
Post last modified:11 July 2026

Yet another parliamentary oversight committee has urged the Labour government to drop its multimillion-pound NHS contract with Palantir. The controversial firm’s contract is valued at £330 million. The health and social care select committee joins the science and technology committee in shunning Palantir. The latter stated the need for the government to find alternative technology partnerships in June. The allegedly war-criminal US spyware firm is steadily working into the UK’s National Health Service. It claims to provide streamlining technology and data services, but MPs cite “serious mistrust”. Critics accuse the notorious spy-tech company of enabling genocide in Palestine and powering ICE’s…

Robert Jenrick joins the list of Reform MPs who took money from convicted fraudsters

Post author:Maddison Wheeldon
Post published:9 July 2026
Post last modified:9 July 2026

The Metropolitan Police has now launched a formal investigation into potential wrongdoing following an Electoral Commission investigation into reports that a £37.5k donation to Robert Jenrick’s Tory leadership campaign had originated overseas — Reform UK isn’t alone. The most troubling detail is that funds said to have been donated by Spott Fitness businessman Phillip Ullmann actually contained a £37.5k sum donated by a US company Innovyz. The company’s founder is Gary Klopfenstein, a convicted fraudster in the US who pleaded guilty in 2024 for wire fraud. A Metropolitan Police spokesperson told the Guardian: We have launched an investigation following a referral from…

165 MPs have signed a motion to reject the EHRC transphobic Code of Practice

Post author:Grace
Post published:9 July 2026
Post last modified:9 July 2026

The Early Day Motion to reject the Equality and Human Rights Commissions (EHRC) transphobic Code of Practice has now hit 165 signatures. As such, the motion’s author — Nottingham East Labour MP Nadia Whittome — has called for equalities minister Bridget Phillipson to withdraw the code. The milestone means that over a quarter of all MPs have now signed the forlorn-hope statement. However, time is now running desperately short, as Whittome explained on social media on 8 July: The scrutiny period for the EHRC’s draft Code of Practice ends this week. This Code will enforce trans people’s segregation, out them to others,…

MPs accuse student loan system of “mis-selling” generation of graduates

Post author:Maddison Wheeldon
Post published:7 July 2026
Post last modified:7 July 2026

MPs from the Treasury Committee have released a new report which accuses the government of mis-selling student loans, pointing out that comparisons to mobile phone bills or cinema tickets were not reflective of the true cost of repayments. The MPs also want Chancellor Rachel Reeves to scrap plans to freeze the repayment threshold for people on the expensive Plan 2 loans. As things stand, it’ll stay at £29,385 from 2027 to 2030, instead of going up with inflation, meaning many graduates will end up paying back more. This choice to freeze – which will increase students’ repayments year on year if…

Labour MPs set out plan to try and push Andy Burnham leftwards

Post author:Ed Sykes
Post published:3 July 2026
Post last modified:4 July 2026

The Socialist Campaign Group of Labour MPs believes that changing the party’s leader isn’t enough. Instead, it is trying to encourage Andy Burnham (or whoever else becomes the next Labour leader) to pull the party back towards more left-wing positions. In a statement, the MPs criticised the dominant Labour right for ‘chasing Reform voters‘ with right-wing positions. The small minority of 24 left-leaning Labour MPs want “immediate bold steps” that understand the “deep structural changes” Labour should be pushing to “reverse over forty years of neoliberalism“. MP Ian Byrne shared an image of the key changes the Socialist Campaign Group are…

‘Pro-Israel MPs tried to shut down Israel lobby debate’ – MEND

Post author:Skwawkbox
Post published:25 June 2026
Post last modified:27 June 2026

British Muslim group MEND (Muslim Engagement and Development) has dissected the attempts of pro-Israel MPs to shut down a debate on Israel’s influence in UK politics. The sick farce is the latest instalment in the Starmer regime’s cover-up of Israel’s interference. The government commissioned a report into foreign political interference without mentioning Israel at all. The report, unsurprisingly, made zero references to Israel, whose lobby funds a majority of government ministers. Israel lobby shut down debate The debate took place because it was demanded by well over 100,000 people. Yet the attempts to shut it down were as shameless as the…

Labour’s Burgon to bring debate to Parliament to ban lucrative side gigs for MPs

Post author:Maddison Wheeldon
Post published:25 June 2026
Post last modified:25 June 2026

Labour MP Richard Burgon has secured a debate in Parliament which will consider banning second jobs for all MPs. Whilst some MPs insist their roles in healthcare and law should be continued alongside MP responsibilities, this loophole has enabled other greedy MPs to turn to lucrative side gigs which bring their priorities into question. For instance, Burgon cites Farage pocketing more than £1m since being elected in “outside work” despite MPs being afforded a pretty high salary from the public purse placing them firmly in the top 1% of earners. Other reports have said that figure is actually £2m. He says:…

Badnoch sinks to new lows as MPs appear increasingly out of touch

Post author:Maddison Wheeldon
Post published:24 June 2026
Post last modified:25 June 2026

Conservative leader Badenoch has descended into the gutter of British politics as she threw loaded words like “traitor” at Labour MPs and made clear her disgust at politicians apparently seeking to improve inequality in the UK. Taking aim at Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson, who she says has been “loyal and incompetent”, Badenoch disgustingly stated: It turns out, appointing a spiteful class warrior as education secretary was a disaster. However, she also pointed out how the taxes were introduced to increase the number of teachers in state schools — which hasn’t borne out — but Badenoch appears more to have an issue…

Reform MPs show lack of humility yet again blaming Starmer for their own inability to win seat

Post author:Maddison Wheeldon
Post published:19 June 2026
Post last modified:19 June 2026

Reform MP-hopeful Robert Kenyon lost in the Makerfield by-election by over 9,000 votes, which is likely to have left the far-right party feeling pretty sore. However, most who face such a defeat would look to where they didn’t hit the mark with voters — but not grievance-fueling Reform UK whose MPs and leader have come out blaming Starmer’s abysmal leadership for why they didn’t win enough votes to secure the seat. The bigoted party’s deputy leader came first, with Richard Tice telling the BBC that people who actually wanted to vote Reform wound up voting for Labour ‘because they had to’.…

MPs warn Palantir influence over British state is ‘unacceptable point of weakness’

Post author:Joe Glenton
Post published:4 June 2026
Post last modified:9 June 2026

MPs from the influential science committee have warned AI war firm Palantir’s increasing power over the UK state is an “unacceptable weakness”. The committee also noted the firm, which is very close to the current Keir Starmer government, espouses openly far-right politics. The Science, Innovation and Technology Committee urged the government to: exercise the 2027 break clause in the NHS Federated Data Platform Contract with Palantir and either develop an in-house replacement or seek an alternative UK provider. The MPs also rejected the idea Palantir was the only firm capable of providing services the UK needs: The report argues that vendor…