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Labour Party Councillor for Challney Ward, Luton. Editor of @leftfootfwd. Passionate about tackling poverty and inequality and promoting social mobility.
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Bridget Phillipson slams Tories for their ‘manufactured smear’ targeting her mother’s council house

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By Basit Mahmood Verified
| Left Foot Forward
Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson has hit back at the Tories for descending into the gutter and launching a ‘manufactured smear’ targeting her family, after they criticised the profit her family made from the sale of her mother’s council house. The Mail on Sunday reported that the sale of Bridget Phillipson’s childhood home generated a profit of £90,000, with the Tories accusing senior Labour figures of “pulling up the drawbridge” through restrictions to the Right to Buy scheme.
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Britons back Andy Burnham’s plan to devolve more powers to regional mayors, poll finds

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By Basit Mahmood Verified
| Left Foot Forward
Britons support Andy Burnham’s plans to devolve more powers to regional mayors, believing such a move would make the running of those areas better, a new poll has found. The poll, carried out by YouGov, asked voters whether they thought devolving more powers from Westminster to regional mayors would generally make those areas better or worse run, or if it would make no difference.
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Piers Morgan slams Brexit as an ‘unmitigated disaster’ and takes apart Farage

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By Basit Mahmood Verified
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Piers Morgan told BBC’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme that Brexit had been an “unmitigated disaster” and took apart Nigel Farage calling him the ‘snake oil salesman’. He made the comments after this month marked the 10th anniversary of the Brexit referendum and claimed that the UK would vote to rejoin the European Union “in a landslide”. Britain is set to have its 7th Prime Minister in a decade due to much political instability, which Morgan put down to Brexit.
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