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What was said, and which frame it usedEvery item the dashboard counts, newest first. The marked words are the phrases that made it count; the tags say whether it used an opposing frame, an MMT-consistent idea, or named MMT. These are keyword matches: whether an item endorses or attacks an idea is shown once our classifier's accuracy is published.
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Burnham pledges £900m for homelessness amid drive to end rough sleeping
…g rough sleeping. “Burnham is throwing another £432m at a problem he failed to solve in Greater Manchester,” she said. “Under Labour, rough sleeping has hit record highs – yet their answer is always more taxpayers’ money and more empty promises.” Referring to the chancellor, Lam said: “[John] Healey must use his budget this week to cut taxes for working people, get the ballooning benefits bill under control, and stop pushing up energy prices. Instead of piling more costs on to hard-working people, Healey must focus on easing the cost of living and delivering real value for taxpayers’ money.”
- Opposing frame: Taxpayers' money
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Snowy Hydro 2.0 is costing $25bn – 12 times more than its initial estimate. How did we get here?
…ictoria over the next few years – and as demand grows due to datacentres. “But it’s just a really expensive thing for what it will get used for,” Edis said. Asked on Friday if $25bn was a good use of taxpayers’ money, the climate change and energy minister, Chris Bowen, told News24 it was a “fair question” but he believed the development would “provide net benefits to the Australian people”. He stressed the scale of the development – a power station the size of the Sydney Opera House a kilometre underground, with tunnelling in terrain that wasn’t properly understood from the start – and decl…
- Opposing frame: Taxpayers' money
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Covid inquiry report shows why culture of care workers being undervalued must end, says Andy Burnham – as it happened
…s of diminished responsibility. Emma Webber, Barnaby’s mother, said: “This is long overdue, and simply the right thing to do. It was a disgrace that Calocane and offenders like him have ever received taxpayers’ money.” The proposed regulations apply to individuals subject to a section 37 order under the Mental Health Act 1983 and a section 57A order under the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995. The offences covered include manslaughter, attempted murder, wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm, rape, assault by penetration and rape of a child under 13. Murder is not included a…
- Opposing frame: Taxpayers' money
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Alberta voters overwhelmingly reject plan to leave Canada in referendum
…se, with Alberta at its centre. The results showed an overwhelming majority of Albertans had voted to remain and one radio show host posted: “Someone owes Albertans $130m for this theatrical waste of taxpayers’ money.” Pollster David Coletto told the Guardian that residents felt the referendum was “a distraction away” from what they wanted their government to focus on. “There was almost a general sadness about the wasted energy spent on this rather than the more real threats they see, including the Trump administration,” he said. “Most Albertans feel deep grievances with the federal governme…
- Opposing frame: Taxpayers' money
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Wes Streeting in US for Hegseth meeting as Ukraine tensions escalate – as it happened
…asked if he believed “in criminal penalties for those who facilitated this invasion of the English Isles”, he replied: Totally, totally. The role of the NGOs, the role of those that are sponsored by taxpayers’ money, because they’re nice, they’re good, they’re kind. They have actually aided and abetted criminality in absolutely every way. These are people [who are] are deluded – deluded, hard-left socialist Marxists, who don’t believe in countries, don’t believe in borders, don’t believe in identities, are intent on destroying everything that exists. The Charity Commission head is expected…
- Opposing frame: Taxpayers' money
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Nigel Farage says charities that help asylum seekers reach UK should be prosecuted
…: “Do you believe in criminal penalties for those who facilitated this invasion of the English Isles?” Farage replied: “Totally, totally. The role of the NGOs, the role of those that are sponsored by taxpayers’ money, because they’re nice, they’re good, they’re kind. They have actually aided and abetted criminality in absolutely every way. “These are people [who are] are deluded – deluded, hard-left socialist Marxists, who don’t believe in countries, don’t believe in borders, don’t believe in identities, are intent on destroying everything that exists.” Farage has previously described the RN…
- Opposing frame: Taxpayers' money
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How Europe’s most wanted cocaine trafficker turned Sierra Leone into the world’s first true narco state
…cocaine importer – the EU agreed to give an extra €90m to Sierra Leone. In January 2025, another €35m was unlocked at a Freetown meeting with EU officials. Other deals involved tens of millions of EU taxpayers’ money paid directly into Sierra Leone’s treasury. After the Arconian seizure, on 9 June 2026, Brussels opened the European chamber of commerce in Freetown to boost investment. Its inaugural president was the Sierra Leonean head of the shipping company whose employee John Conteh died at Freetown’s port. Strengthening democracy was a core ambition of European investment in Sierra Leone.…
- Opposing frame: Taxpayers' money
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Heathrow’s third runway is a bottomless money pit. Stop it now
It won’t promote growth, will take decades and will swallow up billions of taxpayers’ money, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins Infrastructure sends politicians berserk. Propose more money for the health service or reopening youth clubs and frowns break out all round. Can we afford it? But shout infrastructure and cheers go up. The word suggests glamour, chest-beating and “growth”. Reason flies out of the window. The saga of Heathrow’s third runway beggars belief. A foreign-owned private company wants to make more money out of its cramped west London investment. The airlines are sceptical…
- Opposing frame: Fiscal black hole
- Opposing frame: Taxpayers' money
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Badenoch’s inheritance tax gambit makes no economic sense
The Tory leader’s proposal to slash the tax would shovel £6bn of taxpayer money to the already-wealthy Kemi Badenoch’s inheritance tax gambit is a Conservative classic. After all, it was George Osborne’s high-profile pledge to “take the family home out of inheritance tax” in 2007 that put Gordon Brown off calling a snap general election. In practice, Osborne’s plan involved a £1m threshold for inheritance tax – and given the global financial crisis had blown a hole in the public finances by the time the Conservative-Lib Dem coalition came to power in 2010, it never came to pass. But the promi…
- Opposing frame: Taxpayers' money
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As it happened: Israel condemns Green party passing ‘Zionism is racism’ as a ‘stain on history of UK’
…incredibly wealthy” people, Badenoch switched the subject to the amount spent on benefits for people not working She replied: This policy is about people at that cliff edge. What is not a good use of taxpayers money is paying thousands and thousands of people who can work, not to work. Kemi Badenoch recorded her interview with Laura Kuenssberg yesterday. It is playing out on the programme now. In it, Badenoch defended her plan to extend free childcare to high earners. (See 9.08am.) She said: What we want to see is that people who work harder don’t get punished for doing so. If you earn £100…
- Opposing frame: Taxpayers' money
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‘Visible and engaged’: Burnham in listening mode with businesses at Labour party conference
…ay about the budget, despite striking a markedly different tone to Burnham’s “in hock” comment from a year earlier – insisting that he and the prime minister were “in lockstep” in their commitment to balance the books. “There is nothing progressive about losing control because it’s always working people who pay for it,” he said. Shevaun Haviland, the director general of the British Chambers of Commerce, said Healey’s speech was “significant” because the chancellor had acknowledged that private enterprise was vital for helping the UK economy to grow. However, she warned that companies still f…
- Opposing frame: Household budget
- Opposing frame: Taxpayers' money
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UK defence contractors to offer 40,000 apprenticeships, placements and jobs
…report on Neets. Milburn has underlined the importance of work experience in preparing young people for a job, and opening their eyes to potential careers. He said the defence pledge “shows what is possible when employers step up.” “Defence is one of our great industries – it has both the scale and the opportunity to give young people the experience, skills and confidence they need to build a career,” he added. Labour is already rolling out a Jobs Guarantee scheme for 18- to 24-year-olds who have been out of work for at least 18 months – with the promise of a taxpayer-funded work placement.
- Opposing frame: Taxpayers' money
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England’s mayors should face greater scrutiny as powers expand, thinktank says
IPPR North says one bad decision could derail devolution agenda as regions gain control of billions in funding England’s mayors should face much greater official scrutiny to avoid Andy Burnham’s devolution agenda being “derailed by one bad decision”, a thinktank has said. Ministers will set out plans next month to give regional leaders control over potentially billions of pounds of additional funding under a “transformational” shift of power outside Whitehall. From 2028, mayors will be able to keep a share of income tax generated in their areas – giving them greater scope to borrow for major…
- Opposing frame: Taxpayers' money
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UK politics: Trump says he has a better UK relationship with Burnham as PM – as it happened
…d the decision. He repeatedly said that he did not know the reasons behind the decision, but eventually he said it was “perfectly reasonable for a local council to decide that they don’t want to give taxpayers money to an organisation”. In a statement, the charity said: In our experience, the people of Sunderland have traditionally demonstrated a welcoming, inclusive and anti-racist attitude, and believe it is important that voters see this decision as further evidence that the council are unsupportive of equality, diversity and inclusion initiatives. Jenrick was giving an interview to promo…
- Opposing frame: Taxpayers' money
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Burnham urged by opposition parties to follow Macron and act with more urgency on Russian threat – as it happened
…y suggested she was particularly opposed to foreign-based private equity companies making huge profits from the UK care sector. She said: I’m a great believer in not letting other people take British taxpayers money, whoever they are. And I think if we could provide those services and those resources here, then we should do it … If there’s a private provider that’s taking 12 or 15% profit out of running care services for people, is that a good use of how we would plan for the next decade, when actually lots of FTSE 100 companies are very happy to take 5% profit? So these are the things we ne…
- Opposing frame: Taxpayers' money
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Health secretary says plans for cot cams in baby wards being developed ‘urgently’ after Letby inquiry report – as it happened
…previously that the recommendations made in the Thirlwall inquiry report will be “significantly undermined” when his client is “found innocent of all crimes” and has criticised the process a waste of taxpayers money. The overall cost of the inquiry – from its commencement in September 2023 to the end of March 2026 – is at least £18,718,000, according to an answer to a parliamentary question. Two experts withdrew from Letby’s defence team on Monday. They said that although they stood by their assessment that it was “very unlikely” two of the babies were poisoned, some of the arguments being p…
- Opposing frame: Taxpayers' money
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Top civil servant sacked by Starmer received record £860,000 payout
Special approval needed for amount that surpassed what Chris Wormald was ‘contractually entitled to’ The former head of the civil service Chris Wormald received a record payout of almost £860,000 when he was forced out of the top job in Whitehall by Keir Starmer. Cabinet Office accounts have revealed that the former cabinet secretary, who was sacked earlier this year, was paid £859,496 upon departure. The figure is an unprecedented amount, which required civil servants to seek a special direction from ministers to approve it because it was “greater than what Sir Chris Wormald would be contrac…
- Opposing frame: Taxpayers' money
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Councils pay more than £125m a year placing vulnerable children in illegal care homes in England
Exclusive: Booming industry of businesses profit from shortage of beds for most at-risk children Councils are paying more than £125m a year of taxpayers’ money to place vulnerable children in illegal care homes across England, an investigation has found. The Guardian and the Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ) have uncovered a booming industry of businesses profiting from a shortage of beds for the most at-risk children in Ofsted-inspected homes. Local authority payment records show that more than 480 private companies have been paid £250m for 1,800 unlawful placements of children over…
- Opposing frame: Taxpayers' money
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Another Australian found safe after Nepal-Tibet floods – as it happened
…or governments to be able to deliver commitments. Independent MP Kate Chaney says reporting of an “invite-only” community infrastructure grants program by Labor shows “governments from both sides use taxpayer-funded grants to buy votes”. The ABC has reported the Major and Local Community Infrastructure Program committed tens of thousands of dollars to key seats, but 45 seats around the county (almost a third) were not invited to apply for this fund. Chaney says: This is pork barrelling, and we’ve seen it before. The Coalition had Sports Rorts, and now Labor is ‘park’ barrelling – money for p…
- Opposing frame: Taxpayers' money
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No bailouts for Jaguar Land Rover amid reports of thousands of job cuts, says minister
Carmaker, which is battling Trump tariffs and Chinese competitors, faces talks with union leaders and government The government has signalled that it will not invest taxpayers’ money to limit job losses at Jaguar Land Rover (JLR), after it emerged that the UK’s biggest carmaker is planning up to 4,000 redundancies. Before crunch talks on Tuesday between JLR, union leaders and government officials, the business secretary, Jonathan Reynolds, said it was not his job to “intervene and run businesses”. JLR, owned by the Indian conglomerate Tata Motors, told staff on Friday to expect a voluntary re…
- Opposing frame: Taxpayers' money