12/03/2025 11:30
The Guardian
Tories produce list of new bodies it claims Starmer’s administration has createdNigel Farage, the Reform UK leader, and Rupert Lowe, who was one of the party’s five MPs until he was suspended last week over misconduct allegations that he claims are confected, have been continuting their war of words on social media this morning.Lowe posted a message this morning claiming that one of the reasons why the party was out to get him was that “my language on the rape gangs was too strong, too robust, too tough”.I have fought against the rape gangs for over a decade.For Rupert Lowe to say that I tried to prevent him talking about it is monstrous.Desperate.I said that Reform leadership was slitting its own throat by launching this horrific smear campaign against me, with zero credible evidence.This announcement isn’t worth the paper it is written on, given the regulator that the government is supposedly abolishing is instead just being merged with another regulator – that it is already a subsidiary of.Since taking office this government has created 27 new quangos and regulators – including Rachel Reeves’s Office for Value for Money, a pet project that has been slammed as a total waste of taxpayer’s cash. Continue reading...
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