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Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has today insisted that the UK is now a better place to live in than it was when the Conservatives took office in 2010.
He told the BBC: "It's a better place to live than it was in 2010.
"Of course I understand that the last few years have been difficult for everyone."
He cited the pandemic and the war in Ukraine driving up energy bills, insisting "we are now on the right track".
It was put to him that the country has become poorer by many measures since 2010, and public services are worse.
"I just don't accept that," Mr Sunak replied, citing education and saying "our schoolchildren are now the best readers in the Western world".
news.sky.com...
More and more people are passionately engaged in these issues, but feel there is no outlet within an atmosphere which is dominated by the existence of a liberal/left groupthink. The triumph of cultural relativism and political correctness in the opinion-forming fields of the media, academia, education and culture has meant that this groupthink has become even more deeply entrenched. The liberal establishment sets the terms of debate.
At a time of threat from extremism, the West finds itself besieged from within and without. Too often our enemies and our opinion formers appear to agree that Western culture is indefensible or a source purely of shame.
We, however, believe that the West is in fact a unique bastion of reasoned freedom and that Britain in particular should be proud of the great role it has played in Western education, art and culture.
Since it was formed in 2006 the New Culture Forum has been challenging the cultural orthodoxies dominant in the media, academia, education, and wider British culture. We have forged important relationships within the national political, media and cultural spheres and now enjoy a high profile.
www.newcultureforum.org.uk...
Historian and broadcaster Rafe Heydel-Mankoo discusses the sneering condesension of The West's elites towards "populism" (i.e. the will of the people).
www.thebureauinvestigates.com... ce
Under the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000 (PPERA), a political donation from an individual can only be made by someone on the UK electoral roll.
The Conservatives, Reform UK, Liberal Democrats, Green Party and Scottish National Party (SNP) all failed to bar or return the payments.
it is a criminal offence for someone to knowingly accept illegal donations to a political party and a civil offence to do so without knowing.