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MANIFESTO-LY UNTRUE
Keir Starmer's relaunch included the inevitable climbdown on his manifesto promise of 100 percent clean electricity by 2030, as predicted in Eye 1629.

ERNST & BUNG
Labour continues to receive generous corporate donations, including from accountancy and consultancy firm EY and Google.

STRIKING HOME
Matters seem to be worsening in the industrial dispute between G4S and outsourced workers across various government departments.

BADENOCH TIDINGS
Kemi Badenoch leapt on the fact that "a convicted fraudster" had been appointed to cabinet in July – but what of her own past criminal behaviour?

MONEY CARLO
One of Reform UK's latest big donations comes from a patriotic British businesswoman who lives in, er, Monaco.

CALLED TO ORDURE
The normal clublike congeniality of the House of Lords evaporated when the government's bill to eject exempted hereditary peers had its second reading.

CONCRETE BUNGLE
The value-for-money watchdog, the National Audit Office, decided to give framed photographs of its own office block to two MPs, each costing £882.62.

HOUSING NEWS
At least 354,000 people will spend Christmas without a home, and the worst forms of temporary accommodation have seen the biggest increases..

CASH FOR QUESTIONS
A 133 percent hike in fees for HM Land Registry's services threatens to undo any grand talk about clamping down on corruption.

BRUSSELS SPROUTS
The Qatargate corruption scandal has done little to stop a sizeable minority of MEPs using the European parliament as a giant cash machine.

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