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

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But when pressed, a No 10 spokesman said: “Evgeny Lebedev is a British citizen who has made an outstanding contribution to the UK. All peerages are vetted by the House of Lords appointments commission for matters of probity. The commission seeks advice from government departments and agencies where appropriate.” Johnson was not the only influential politician to drop into Lebedev’s opulent townhouse at 20 Park Square East for the 2017 Christmas party. The first guest of note was an ex-prime minister, Tony Blair. Blair came between 6.30pm and 7pm, before the event began, his office said. He spent 20 minutes talking to Lebedev in the Stalin room. To put this into context, the previous guy was Gavin Williamson, a supernaturally incompetent lurching tower of wrong wearing the teeth of a starved horse Mr Farage said there was a “bigger problem than young people smoking”, telling the broadcaster: “Smoking long term is bad for health. Undeniable. Drugs, short term, are catastrophic for society and young people and that wasn’t even mentioned.” After Kwarteng did his fiscal event all over our carpet, the pound plunged to the lowest level against the dollar that it has ever been since Alexander Hamilton stopped rapping long enough to invent it in 1776

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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. In The Decade in Tory, Jones gives us a magnificent tour of misconduct in public office and venal malfeasance on a scale the country should have a collective nightmare about. As Jones points out It's absolutely fine to scream occasionally whole reading this book. Later, speaking in Mid Bedfordshire, he added: "We take this incredible victory humbly. We know that voters here have voted for us and they've put their trust and their confidence in a changed Labour Party, and we will repay them for that trust and confidence." Change the plan you will roll onto at any time during your trial by visiting the “Settings & Account” section. What happens at the end of my trial?The Guardian has repeatedly asked Johnson about his attendances at these parties, and whether he thinks, given the senior government jobs he has held, he is taking unnecessary risks. He has always declined to answer. Jones takes us through a 'tsunami of unmitigated failure' from the coalition, through welfare system 'reforms', to what essentially amounts to defunding of the NHS, through austerity, cuts to legal aid, culling our badger population in an attempt to reduce bovine tuberculosis that flew in the face of scientific evidence to the contrary, Brexit and, of course, Covid. I'm going to go out on a limb and say it should be required reading lest anyone is tempted to try and vote them in again.

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Despite the fact the new Advanced British Standard qualification will take a while to come into effect (see the post below at 07.33), Rishi Sunak insisted his other education reforms “will start benefiting people very soon”. Marcus Rashford, the footballer and campaigner, came in second place while Anne Mensah, vice-president of Content UK at Netflix, was third. The Oscar-winning actor Daniel Kaluuya is a new entrant to the list, in fourth. Steven Bartlett, 29, founder and former CEO of Social Chain and the newly named, youngest-ever panellist on the BBC show, Dragons’ Den, is another new entrant. He is joined by the model and social activist Munroe Bergdorf and Rob Pierre, CEO of the digital marketing consultancy Jellyfish. Today in Focus podcast: What price Newcastle? Tamworth is thought to be safest seat ever lost by a government at a by-election, while the result in Mid Bedfordshire represents the largest Labour mid-term victory over the Tories since 1945. 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.

It's too much to hope for that anyone other than a tax-dodging billionaire with a seat in the House of Lords who still wants to vote Tory will read this and pause for thought, but for the rest of us - and perhaps for more sanguine generations yet to come (assuming the world survives the current iteration of disaster capitalism) - it will serve as a crucial, engaging and clear-eyed testament of how badly wrong a once-decent country can go in the space of a few years when it is led by the most incompetent, venal and cruel group of people you could possibly assemble. Nigel Farage said Rishi Sunak’s plan to ban smoking for young people is “stupid” and government “should not get involved in these things”.

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The Decade In Tory is a bravura performance. Substantial, meticulous, incredible, depressing, hilarious, rude – and essential reading.Raheem Sterling has admitted he is contemplating a future away from Manchester City and would consider moving abroad. Kenyan police say they have arrested the husband of the distance runner Agnes Tirop, a two-time world championship bronze medallist who was found dead at her home. US Open champion Emma Raducanu has pulled out of this month’s Kremlin Cup, citing a “tournament schedule change”. Cameron Norrie rose to the occasion in one of the biggest matches of his life, obliterating Diego Schwartzman, the 11th seed, 6–0 6-2 to reach his first ever Masters 1000 semi-final at Indian Wells.

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A Friday night in the control room with Bedfordshire police told the same story of services stretched to breaking point. Mental health and domestic violence dominated the calls. A neighbour reported a man next door banging on his wife’s window, threatening violence. A man called as he chased his son across a dark park, terrified he might harm himself. The chief constable, Jon Boutcher, had just written to his MP recounting a typical night of rapes, stabbings and a lethal traffic accident involving young children. “I run out of officers regularly for 999 calls,” he said. 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. racism, sexism, homophobia, islamophobia, xenophobia, amorality, ineptitude, and deception. He owes his success almost entirely Recently, even here in Scotland, I've heard people espousing sympathetic views towards the Conservative government as a result of the unprecedented hurdles they faced due to Covid. However, Russell Jones' The Decade In Tory argues that Conservative rule has been a shambles since 2010, long before Covid, and really, the government didn't need the pandemic as an excuse to showcase its incompetence.

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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.” Boris Johnson and Carrie Symonds attending Evgeny Lebedev’s Christmas party last December. Photograph: GORC/GC Images The 1,373 votes it won is greater than Labour's majority, and shows the Conservative Party is losing voters to the right and to the left. f. Boris Johnson's emotional comfort turbot, Michael Gove, said he would continue “levelling up the country”