🔵 NEW: #LizTruss will be entitled to claim up to £115,000 per year from the taxpayer for the rest of her life once she leaves office, despite likely being one of the shortest-serving prime ministers in history.
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- Transgender women will now be excluded from competing in the female category at top-level events, after World Athletics decided "to prioritise fairness and the integrity of the female competition before inclusion".
- 🎉 Happy Twosday! Today is #Twosday - Tuesday 22 February 2022 - a date written as 22/02/2022, which is both a palindrome and an ambigram! It is being called an ‘unprecedented milestone.'
- 🥳 Derek Skipper is celebrating after passing his GCSE Maths exam - at the age of 92 #gcses2022 #gcseresults
- Replying to @NationalWorldComedian @robdelaney will join the London event. He said: “Does a chief executive need an extra zero at the end of their salary, or should nurses, posties and teachers be able to heat their homes this winter? Enough is enough.” nationalworld.com/news/uk/enough…
- Replying to @NationalWorldThe campaign group has 5 demands: 📈 A real pay rise 💡 Slash energy bills 🍽 End food poverty 🏡 Decent homes for all 💰 Tax the rich
- 🔴 EXCLUSIVE: Tory MP took on additional £60k second job AFTER the Owen Paterson scandal While a small number of MPs seem to have resigned from outside roles following the increased scrutiny, one MP registered a lucrative new job on 26 November.
- 🔵 NEW: @eiecampaign are staging protests across the UK today - here's what they’re calling for #EnoughIsEnough
- Replying to @NationalWorld💰 Between 1997 and 2020 the median cost of a property in England has surged 315% from £59,995 to £249,000. Average employee earnings – excluding self-employed people – have risen at a much lower rate of 87%, rising from £16,958 in 1997 to £31,777 in 2020.
- Replying to @NationalWorld🗨 Si King of @HairyBikers said: “We have a system that favours corporate power and wealth over normal people. Those in power have neither the will nor the empathy to change it.”
- Replying to @NationalWorldThey are backed by some high-profile names from the labour movement, including RMT leader Mick Lynch and Coventry South MP @zarahsultana nationalworld.com/news/uk/enough…
- Replying to @NationalWorld🌴 This isn’t just about the future of Brazilian society. The nation is home to the majority of the Amazon, the world’s largest rainforest, which has become a battleground in the fight against #climatechange. nationalworld.com/news/world/bra…
- 🇧🇷 Bolsonaro or Lula: why Brazil’s election could be a turning point for the world #Brazil #brazilelections
- Police officer who recorded himself having sex with 13-year-old girl ‘close to tears’ as he gets jail trib.al/Qkv6RAe
