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Former pupils at Dulwich College have made shocking claims about the Reform leader’s behaviour at school – which he denies. Daniel Boffey reports Peter Ettedgui is a well-known film-maker. But 40 years ago he was a nervous boy starting out at Dulwich College in South London. “I was 13. I’d come from a fairly small school into this slightly intimidating, kind of gothic structure. That was huge.” He loved performing and soon found his niche in drama, he told Annie Kelly. But one boy shocked him: Nigel Farage. “Once he found out I was Jewish, you know, that was…
Damning official review finds many unpaid carers left with huge debt because of government failure ‘It’s like the Post Office scandal’: victims of carer’s allowance crisis speak out The carer’s allowance scandal – a timeline Hundreds of thousands of vulnerable unpaid carers will have their cases reassessed after a damning official review concluded they had been left with huge debts because of government failure and maladministration. The review, due to be published on Tuesday, was triggered after a year-long Guardian investigation revealed how carers had been hit with draconian penalties of as much as £20,000 relating to carer’s allowance.…
The party sees its harsh policies as politically necessary. But what happened to talking up the value of migrants for a thriving economy and society? This is how Labour MPs see it. They face brutal dilemmas and miserable choices. How to manage our asylum system is one of the worst. Through their constituency work, they will have met refugees with tragic stories of war and fear, of terrifying journeys across the world, of gangsters on night-time beaches. But MPs’ experience of hearing those heart-rending stories clash head-on with what they see as political necessity, demanding they block their ears…