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Tories Accused Of Squandering £130bn Of Taxpayer Money Since The Last General Election

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The Conservatives have been accused of spending £130 billion of taxpayer funds wastefully since the last general election.

According to the Best for Britain’s Scandalous Spending Tracker – which monitors suspect government spending – the government has spent more £6 billion of that total in just the last two months.

The news, first reported by The Mirror, is yet another blow for Rishi Sunak because he has been at the top of government for the majority of last four years.

He served as chancellor between February 2020 and July 2022, and has been prime minister since October 2022 – amid a cost of living crisis, no less.

Some of this wasteful spending includes the £32,000 bill the taxpayer paid to cover the legal costs after the science secretary, Michelle Donelan, wrongly accused an academic of being a Hamas sympathiser.

Liz Truss racked up a £15,000 bill for food and alcohol on a single flight to Australia when she was foreign secretary.

The government also spent £33 million on delaying the general election by two months.

Brexit checks brought in at the end of April, meanwhile, cost £4.7 billion.

Best for Britain calculated that the Tories have wasted, on average, £26 billion per year since being re-elected in 2019.

That is 30 times the estimated cost of the Liberal Democrats’ proposal to increase GP appointments, said to cost £800 million per year, and more than the total cost of the Green Party’s plan to insulate 10 million homes, said to cost £25 billion per year.

All that wasted cash from the last few years is also enough money to carry out Keir Starmer’s six key pledges more than five times.

Chief executive of Best for Britain, Naomi Smith, and founder of tactical voting website, GetVoting.org, said: “Rishi Sunak has presided over years of delinquent government spending and while his reign of egregious waste may soon be over, we cannot risk the Tories getting their hands back in the public piggy bank in five years time.

“That’s why we’re asking people to vote tactically at the next election and get it right with GetVoting.org.”

A mega-poll from Electoral Calculus and Find Out Now for GB News and the Daily Mail suggested the Tories are on track for just 66 seats next month.

The same poll suggested Labour could win a staggering 493 seats, nearly 300 more than they won at the 2019 election.

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Tories pledge new GP surgeries in community care boost

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The party says allowing pharmacies to treat more conditions will also free up GP appointments.

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At-home saliva test may catch deadly prostate cancers

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Research suggests cheap and simple spit tests may be better at catching the disease than blood tests.

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Tories Heading For Election Wipeout As Mega Poll Predicts They Could End Up With Just 66 Seats

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The Tories are heading for wipeout after a new mega poll predicted they are on course to win just 66 seats at next month’s general election.

The survey of more than 10,000 people suggests Keir Starmer is on course for power with a Commons majority of 336.

Among the big-name Tories who would lose their seats are deputy prime minister Oliver Dowden, home secretary James Cleverly and defence secretary Grant Shapps.

According to the poll, by Electoral Calculus and Find Out Now for GB News and the Daily Mail, Labour is on 46% – a staggering 27 points ahead of the Conservatives, who are on just 19%.

Converted into seats, that would leave Labour on 493 – nearly 300 more than they won at the 2019 election.

The Tories would plummet to just 66 seats, leaving them with just seven more MPs than the Lib Dems on 59.

The SNP is also on course for a bad night, dropping more than 20 seats to 26.

Electoral Calculus said: “Our figures indicate a substantial Labour landslide, with Keir Starmer gaining a majority of over 300 seats at Westminster.

“The Conservatives would have fewer than 100 seats. They would be the official opposition, but they would have less than half of the opposition MPs – 72 out of 157.”

The result would be even better than Tony Blair achieved in the New Labour landslide of 1997, when the party won 419 seats.

By contrast, the Tories would suffer their worst result since at least 1900.

Other cabinet members on course to lose their seats are potential leadership contenders Penny Mordaunt and Kemi Badenoch, as well as Claire Coutinho, Mel Stride, Gillian Keegan and Mark Harper.

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Jeremy Renner Finally Explains The Real Reason He Left The Mission: Impossible Franchise

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Jeremy Renner had a pretty good reason to exit the Mission: Impossible franchise.

“I had to leave that,” the actor told Collider in an interview published on Monday. “I was supposed to do more with them. I love those guys. I love Tom [Cruise] so much. We had so much fun, and I love that character a lot.”

However, he noted that making the films “requires a lot of time away”.

“It’s all in London,” he added. “I had to go be a dad.”

Jeremy had starred as William Brandt in 2011′s Ghost Protocol and 2015′s Rogue Nation amid reports that he might replace Tom Cruise as the Mission: Impossible lead.

But Renner left the action film series before its highest-grossing entry, 2018′s Fallout. Director Christopher McQuarrie said at the time that a scheduling conflict had prevented Jeremy from appearing in the film.

Speaking to Collider, though the actor emphasised that reprising his role “just wasn’t gonna work out then” since he was raising a young child, Ava Berlin Renner.

“Maybe now that my daughter is older that could happen,” Jeremy said. “I’d always jump into a Mission: Impossible anytime and back into Brandt. It’s great.”

Jeremy Renner and Tom Cruise pictured together in 2011
Jeremy Renner and Tom Cruise pictured together in 2011

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The first Mission: Impossible movie was released in 1996, and although it was a hit, later entries turned the franchise into a bona fide box-office behemoth.

Not only has Mission: Impossible raked in billions worldwide, but helped make Tom Cruise perhaps the most famous Hollywood star turned stuntman with his death-defying showstoppers.

Meanwhile, in the years following Rogue Nation, Jeremy would continue to appear as the superhero Hawkeye in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

He proved to be a real-life superhero at the start of 2023 when he reportedly prevented a snowplough from hitting his nephew.

Though the actor nearly died in the incident, he recently told late night host Jimmy Fallon that it taught him some valuable lessons.

“I won’t have a bad day for the rest of my life,” he said. “It’s impossible.”

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Hugh Jackman Spills On ‘Hardest Bit’ Of Preparation For His Wolverine Return

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Hugh Jackman has opened up about the “hardest” adjustment he made while gearing up to play Wolverine again this summer.

The Australian actor — who stars alongside Ryan Reynolds in the upcoming superhero film Deadpool & Wolverine — told People magazine that he was pumped to prepare for his big screen return as the iconic mutant.

“My body was a little sore at the beginning, but I was thrilled that my body was still responding. And I realised how good it is for your brain. But the hardest bit… the food,” said Hugh, who initially decided that he’d retire from playing Wolverine after Logan in 2017.

Hugh, who shared a snapshot of his apparent 8,000-calorie diet days on social media early last year, acknowledged that he had to “eat a lot” for the role.

“For me, for my body type, I’m naturally skinny. To get the size on, that’s the hardest bit. That’s the bit that does my head in,” said the Greatest Showman star, who previously told CNN’s Chris Wallace that he’d make it his “job” to train for the part in Deadpool & Wolverine.

Ryan noted that five or six meals a day might sound “great” to some people.

“But it’s not like the type of food that you would really necessarily enjoy,” he said.

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Ryan, who is set to star in his third Deadpool movie, noted to People that he “couldn’t believe” Hugh’s change in physicality.

“Just the sheer relentlessness that you dedicated yourself towards stunts, choreography. It was the first time I’d ever seen how invaluable a background in song and dance is when you are doing an action movie,” he said.

Ryan continued: “You hit your marks in those fight scenes with speed and confidence, the likes of which I have never seen. I don’t care if you were 25, 35, 45 or 55. It was lightning.”

Deadpool & Wolverine is set to hit cinemas on July 26.

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