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Trashing democracy, trashing the NHS, trashing living standards and lives. We must stop the Tories
The government’s all-round attacks on every aspect of working class existence must be opposed on every front, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP
People take part in a protest outside Downing Street in Westminster, London, calling on the Government to scrap the Nationalities and Borders Bill

BORIS JOHNSON is possibly the worst, most damaging prime minister of the modern era and the mounting scandals could yet force him from office. 

There is even a (unfortunately, much smaller) possibility that it could do in this government as a whole. 

Whatever the immediate outcome, and however it unfolds, the overwhelming majority of society has a strong interest in seeing them all gone as soon as possible. 

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