December - in which the Tory's brexit cost us even more money, standards and safeguards were threatened further, schools suffered badly and the Tories allowed strikes to cripple the country
1st
Brexit added nearly £6bn to UK food bills in two years, research finds
Home Office ignored warnings on diphtheria weeks before Manston outbreak
Former Covid vaccine tsar warns UK ‘dismantling’ systems for fighting future pandemics
My mum's 40-hour wait
to get to A&E with hip break
Water firms’ debts since privatisation hit £54bn as Ofwat refuses to impose limits
Forty potential ministerial code breaches never investigated, report reveals
2nd
Rishi Sunak wrong to ‘wipe the slate clean’ on Braverman breach of standards, report finds
Half a million vulnerable households miss out on help with energy bills
3rd
Brexit has fuelled surge in UK food prices, says Bank of England policymaker
Revealed: UK has failed to resettle Afghans facing torture and death despite promise
4th
Brexit: Fears for toy safety, asbestos exposure and work accidents in EU laws ‘bonfire’
Staff shortages see UK restaurants struggle to cope with Christmas season
Health and wealth divides in UK worsening despite ‘levelling up’ drive, report finds
5th
Afghans died because of Raab’s delay in reviewing documents, officials told
UN condemns ‘legal errors’ in asylum report backed by Suella Braverman
Matt Hancock accused of rewriting history in pandemic book
6th
Michelle Mone takes leave of absence from House of Lords amid PPE contract claims
UK ‘sleepwalking’ into food supply crisis, farmers warn
‘A mess-up worth billions’: energy rivals attack Bulb-Octopus deal
Revealed: Second firm pushed by Michelle Mone was secret entity of husband’s office
Brexit adding to ‘crippling’ UK food supply crisis, say farming chiefs
Festival of Brexit was ‘monumental cock-up’, MPs tell culture secretary
Britain wastes £1bn on drones to monitor English Channel
7th
England’s affordable housing scheme falls 32,000 homes short of target
8th
Go-ahead for controversial Cumbria coal mine condemned by government’s climate adviser
Tories urged to take down ‘appalling’ video of Sadiq Khan in ‘gun sights’
9th
Government to weaken water pollution goals in ‘attack on nature’
No evidence of Suella Braverman’s claims migrants are ‘gaming’ slavery laws,watchdog says
Teacher shortage could worsen after DfE rejects dozens of training courses
UK government ‘increasingly antagonistic’ towards human rights, European watchdog warns
Sunak condemned for repeating figure about cost of public sector pay demands
Tory voter ID laws look like an attempt to rig our elections, not improve them
10th
Ministers hold out against proposal on reporting hospitality in new MPs’ code
Health secretary accused of ‘refusing’ to negotiate with striking nurses’ leader over her gender
11th
UK to downgrade commitment to human rights for close diplomatic ties
Jeremy Hunt warned plan to rip up bank rules is ‘huge mistake’
12th
Watchdog reprimands Tories over £800bn post-Brexit trade deals claim
Nurses to strike in England, Wales and Northern Ireland after talks fail
Decade of neglect means NHS unable to tackle care backlog, report says
13th
Partygate: ministers accused of writing ‘blank cheque’ for Boris Johnson legal bills
Sunak asylum plan violates international law, UN says
14th
Tories make billionaire ex-Mubarak minister senior treasurer
Dominic Raab bullying: Five further formal complaints filed against deputy prime minister
Braverman refuses safe alternatives to Channel crossings despite more drownings
15th
Thérèse Coffey accused of undermining Cop15 talks with weak targets
Ministers rip up protections for torture victims and asylum seekers in processing centres
16th
Conservative
Party Propped Up by Financiers, Property Developers & Fossil Fuel Interests
17th
Braverman acting unlawfully over asylum seeker support, high court finds
Rishi Sunak’s £150bn ‘stealth tax raid’ will cost families £5,000 each
Christmas markets see plunge in trade ‘due to Brexit red tape’
18th
Billion pound gap as government spends less on cutting UK emissions than it raises in carbon tax
UK lagging ‘way behind’ EU on warmer homes policy
19th
UK government blocks release of CO2 figures behind transport plan
Brexit damaging NHS with staff and medicine shortages, study finds
Tories ‘failing women’ as gynaecology waiting times treble in a decade
Government accused of using ‘scare tactics’ to frighten public about nurse strike
Risk level of school buildings collapsing in England raised to ‘very likely’
20th
Exodus of more than half a million from workforce ‘puts UK economy at risk’
Lords inquiry launched into Tory peer accused of bullying female journalist
Tory MP Bob Stewart tells activist to ‘go back to Bahrain’
21st
Brexit rule that makes EU citizens reapply to stay in UK is unlawful, court says
22nd
UK economy was G7 growth laggard in Q3 as dismal 2023 beckons
Honours committees ‘pressured by No 10 to reward Tory donors’
Target date for cleaning up waterways in England is moved back by 36 years
24th
Brexit means no British manufacturer able to build UK government’s ministerial cars
Revealed:
Crisis in A&E departments drives 15,000 deaths
26th
UK rail system described as ‘broken’ as 2022 data reveals extent of disruption
27th
Ministers’ efforts to claw back cash from PPE fraud branded ‘pitiful’
Charities and employers struggling due to post-Brexit funding delays
28th
Government refuses to publish economic benefits estimate of latest Brexit trade deal
Four in 10 junior doctors plan to quit NHS as soon as they can, survey finds
Dementia patients in England facing ‘national crisis’ in care safety
Matt Hancock and Boris Johnson’s Covid inquiry defence to be funded by taxpayers
29th
Ministers criticised as 200,000 eligible children in England miss out on free school meals
One in 10 Tory peers have given more than £100,000 to party
30th
Dominic Raab ‘deceptively and deliberately’ undermined me as victims’ tsar, says Vera Baird
More than 1,800 police officers recruited under Boris Johnson’s 20,000 pledge have already quit
31st
‘Exhausted, broken, at risk of heart attacks’: UK headteachers quit as cuts push them to the edge
