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Rishi Sunak is a multi-millionaire and his party relies on huge donations from tycoons – including some who avoid paying their full share of tax in the UK.
So for him to target and demonise many of the poorest and most vulnerable people in the country is contemptible.
His assault on the sick and disabled is the old, discredited Tory tactic of divide and rule. They’re trying to pit the working and healthy against the non-working and struggling. Hopefully, the electorate will see it for what it is: Conservative fraud.
Checks are already in place to weed out the minority accused of fiddling the system. But what this is really about is stigmatising claimants – replacing cash with vouchers identifying them publicly – and axing benefits.
After the PPE VIP lane scandal during the pandemic and a string of dubious honours for wealthy donors, the party’s persecution of the sick and disabled is all the more despicable.
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Dying debate
Turbo-charged by Esther Rantzen’s desire to take control of the end of her life, the debate on assisted dying is one we simply must have.
MPs discussing the issue for the first time since 2015, when the Commons voted against changing the law, is a sign of evolving attitudes.
Both Keir Starmer and Rishi Sunak have pledged that if they win the election, they will make time for legislation if the majority view of the nation is to give the dying a choice.
Giving people the right to do in Britain what they’re entitled to do with Dignitas in Switzerland is controversial, and those with fears or who are outright opponents must be heard. But let’s have that debate without rancour.
Driven out
Scotland's hapless Humza Yousaf has been forced to resign as First Minister after little more than a year.
A string of SNP scandals mean that the wheels are coming off the independence movement’s expensive motorhome.