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Theresa May to face first grassroots vote to oust a PM in the history of the Conservative Party

Theresa May will become the first Conservative leader in the party's history to face a grassroots vote to oust her after rank and file activists forced an Emergency General Meeting to discuss the party’s leadership. The Prime Minister is set to be hauled in front of a meeting of 800 constituency chairmen and senior activists in June, who will decide whether to demand her resignation for failing to deliver Brexit. Although the vote will not be binding, losing it would...

Nurse’s response to Trump accusing doctors and mums of ‘executing’ newborn babies goes viral

President Trump has embarked on the 2020 election campaign, gleefully deflecting attention from any further investigations of his affairs by going on the offence 'bigly'. In a rally in Wisconsin this weekend he whipped up his crowd of MAGA hat wearing followers by offending just about everyone from the “sick” news media to “scum” FBI investigators. In a rambling rant that was demented even by his standards, he turned to a myth he’s peddled before – that Democrats are “aggressively...

Police hunt city centre triple stabbing suspects

Police have launched an investigation into a triple stabbing in a city centre after a night of shocking violence.  Three men were stabbed after violence erupted in the early hours of Sunday morning. West Midlands Police were called to North Street, Wolverhampton, West Midlands, just after midnight when two men were found on the floor with serious stab wounds. They were taken to hospital and a third man, also found to have been stabbed, sustained minor injuries. Police are trawling...

Nearly a third of graduates too educated for their job

Nearly a third of graduates are too educated for their job, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has found as part of its quarterly Economic Review. The data shows to 34.2 per cent of those who graduated after 2007 are overeducated for the profession they are in compared to just 21.7 per cent of those who graduated before 1992. London is the UK region with the highest proportion of overeducated workers, which is partly due to the relatively high proportion...

Donald Trump expected to dine with Boris Johnson after Corbyn snub

Donald Trump is expected to have dinner with Boris Johnson following revelations that his official State Banquet is expected to be snubbed by Jeremy Corbyn and other leading politicians. According to the Sunday Times the US President is eager to meet the former Foreign Secretary, and could even spend some time with Nigel Farage during his visit. But he wont get the opportunity to meet the Leader of the Opposition after Corbyn turned down an invitation to meet with the...

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