The Decade in Tory: The Sunday Times Bestseller: An Inventory of Idiocy from the Coalition to Covid

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Noughties babies to flood unis – The baby boom of the early 2000s is about to flood UK universities and colleges with tens of thousands more school leavers a year, according to a report out today co-authored by David Willetts, the former universities minister. It means the government’s efforts to cut spending on higher education by limiting the number of young people attending will be doomed, Willetts says. The demographic increase in young people is an opportunity to reshape the British labour market towards the “high-paid sectors of the future”, he says. “Across advanced countries there’s a hunger for more education. Looking at how Britain is going to invest and pay its way in the world in the next decade, a growing higher education sector looks to be part of it.” The report was written with Maja Gustafsson for the Resolution Foundation. Cuts to social care and welfare are not the only visible marks of the lost decade. Photograph: Rui Vieira/PA The former leader of the Brexit Party, who is a smoker, told ITV’s Good Morning Britain programme: “I am a sinner, yes, I get that. But Rishi Sunak is probably the most intelligent prime minister we have had, most decent prime minister too, for many, many years. Lightly amusing when appropriate, darkly scathing throughout- this book uses the scandals, corruptions, and idiocies of the past decade to tear down any existing facade of decency or competence within the tory party. All through their own quotes and verified statistics (see the extensive notes at the end of the book).Alexander Lebedev holds up the English and Russian editions of his book in Moscow last November. Photograph: Alexander Nemenov/AFP via Getty Images

The Decade in Tory: An inventory of idiocy from the coalition

b. Ghana said this was complete *******s, and called Johnson's Operation Red Meat "Operation Dead Meat" Tory strategists have rejected calls for a spring 2024 general election, the Telegraph can reveal, despite mounting speculation one was being planned behind the scenes. Just over one in 10 - some 13 per cent - said the Prime Minister “represents change” and 18 per cent said they were unsure. The witness is not the first person to have made such a point about senior politicians and media proprietors. The 2012 Leveson inquiry found the relationship between politicians and the press over the previous three decades had damaged the perception of public affairs. It concluded that politicians of all parties had developed “too close a relationship with the press in a way which has not been in the public interest”. Rishi Sunak said increasing the legal smoking age annually will be the “single biggest intervention in public health in a generation”.But I think smoking is fundamentally different for a couple of reasons. Firstly, unlike lots of other products that may not be good for you there is no safe level of smoking. It can’t be part of a balanced diet. It is also obviously highly addictive and it is responsible for one in four cancer deaths in our country.” Brexit was mainly caused by the partisan austerity created by the shrinking of the public sphere by Conservative governments. To win power, Johnson promised to repair his party’s depredations with eye-catching projects. His Brexit rhetoric has raised expectations, but his commitment to “levelling up” is a deceit unless it reverses all the financial and social forces that have been accelerating poverty since 2010. Luke Sibieta, author of the report, said: “Extra funding in the spending review will reverse cuts to school spending per pupil, but will mean 15 years without any overall growth. It did take me a while to read. Not because it's not readable, it is. But because I was getting irate before bed. The Tories are in “very, very real trouble” in Red Wall seats, Nigel Farage said as he suggested that could have been the reason why the Conservatives were “being nice to me” at their party conference in Manchester.

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He told ITV’s Good Morning Britain programme: “They are in trouble. They are in very, very real trouble and they are particularly in trouble in the Red Wall. This will make it that much harder to achieve ambitious goals to level up poorer areas of the country and narrow educational inequalities, which were gaping even before the pandemic.” As pointed out by elections guru, professor Sir John Curtice, Tamworth is the safest seat lost by any governing party - ever. Britain’s economy has suffered its worst three months for more than a decade after official figures revealed output failed to grow once again in October. Austerity cuts to the NHS, public health and social care have killed tens of thousands more people in England than expected, according to research by the University of York. The largest study of its kind found that even in just the four years after 2010, the spending squeeze was linked with 57,550 excess deaths. “This is a devastating verdict on a decade of Tory austerity in healthcare,” said Jonathan Ashworth, the shadow health secretary.In the early 1990s, health and education spending each comprised around 4.5 per cent of national income. While education has remained at a similar level, health spending rose to seven per cent of national income before the pandemic. Volodymyr Zelenksy and Rishi Sunak greet each other at a European Political Community summit in Granada, Spain Told that in the past he had talked about the importance of an individual’s right to choose and asked why he had changed his mind, Mr Sunak said: “You know, I do and as a Conservative measures to restrict choice are never easy. Johnson is understood to have stayed later than most. His late-night presence attests to one of the more unlikely friendships in modern British politics, which culminated over the summer in Johnson’s contentious decision to make Lebedev a member of the House of Lords. In 2015, for instance, Johnson and Lebedev camped out together on the streets of London to draw attention to homelessness among army veterans. They made an improbable double act. When Johnson joked that he had fallen in a puddle, Lebedev quipped: “I saved your life”; the two shared a bottle of whisky.