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Tubby Isaacs wrote: ↑Fri Mar 21, 2025 11:35 am What was she doing with him?

Andy McDandy wrote: ↑Sat Mar 22, 2025 11:23 pm Liz Truss. Her sex face is her normal face.

davidjay wrote: ↑Sun Mar 23, 2025 8:38 am

Andy McDandy wrote: ↑Sat Mar 22, 2025 11:23 pm Liz Truss. Her sex face is her normal face.

Thank you for that delightful image.

Andy McDandy wrote: ↑Sat Mar 22, 2025 11:23 pm Liz Truss. Her sex face is her normal face.

Tubby Isaacs wrote: ↑Thu Mar 27, 2025 8:36 pm Not just a Tory MP. Andrew Rosindell is Kemi's shadow Foreign Office minister.

Tories claim No 10 admission UK won’t avoid new US tariffs shows Starmer has failed to protect British business – as it happened
Andrew Griffith, shadow business secretary, says prime minister needs to work on ‘rekindling US trade deal’

Senior Tories have held private talks with big landlords about how to thwart the government’s renters’ rights bill, the Guardian has learned, with ideas including launching a legal challenge under human rights law.

Jane Scott, the shadow housing minister, recently hosted a roundtable meeting with several of the country’s largest landlords and estate agents, at which they discussed a number of ways to delay or stop the bill altogether. The ideas included challenging it in the courts and delaying it with repeated rounds of Lords amendments, according to three people in attendance.

The discussions have prompted accusations of collusion between the Tories and property industry. They also give an indication of how hard the Conservatives are likely to fight the bill in its final stages, even though the party tried to pass a similar version of the proposals when it was in government.

Anny Cullum, policy officer at the campaign group Acorn, said: “The comments by Baroness Scott have confirmed what we suspected: that there is a coordinated attempt by landlords and their supporters within the Lords to frustrate the progress of the renters’ rights bill.”

She added: “Unelected and unaccountable Tory peers are using underhand tactics to deliberately delay this vital legislation even more – legislation that many of them supported in its previous guise under the last government.”

Polly Neate, chief executive of Shelter, said: “England’s 11 million private renters have been waiting years for genuine security and safety in their homes. With reform finally on the horizon, it’s utterly disgraceful that a handful of self-interested peers are resorting to cynical delay tactics designed to slow the progress of the renters’ rights bill to a crawl.”

A Conservative party spokesperson said: “The Conservatives have been warning that this bill is deeply flawed, as it will lead to a reduced supply of rental homes … As is standard practice with all legislation, the official opposition engages privately with a range of stakeholders to hear their views.”