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Boris Johnson with Farage as deputy most popular coalition in hung parliament, poll reveals
Boris Johnson as Prime Minister with Nigel Farage as his deputy has emerged as the most popular option for Brits in the event of a hung parliament, new polling data has revealed. A TalkRADIO and OnePoll study found a CON/BREX coalition topped all other alliances as the preferred option in the event of a hung parliament. In that scenario almost one in three (28 per cent) would like to see Bojo elected as the next Prime Minister with Nigel Farage...
Female council chief quits job claiming elected member tried to kiss her while another said she had “good breeding hips”
Isabel Edgar Briancon was appointed executive director of Stratford District Council last November but resigned after just six months
No Bo Jo: Majority of voters think Boris Johnson would make bad PM
Boris is in front amongst Tory leadership hopefuls
WASPI women protest pension loss around the UK as government challenged in High Court
A judicial review is underway into whether the increase in the women's pension age from 60-66 years is fair
Human civilisation could be over by 2050
A terrifying new report has claimed that human civilisation could be over by 2050, unless climate change is tackled immediately. Researchers from the Breakthrough National Centre for Climate Restoration in Melbourne claims that climate change poses a ‘near- to mid-term existential threat to human civilisation.’ The report outlines a worst-case scenario of how our world could look like in 30 years’ time. They assume that world leaders ignore advice to decarbonise the global economy, this would raise temperatures by 3...
Labour make up ground on Brexit Party in Peterborough
The Labour Party is making up ground in the Peterborough by-election with odds on Lisa Forbes to win plummeting from 7/1 to 5/1 today. Fifteen candidates are facing voters at the ballot box on Thursday in a contest that will have wide political ramifications. The election of a new MP came about after local people effectively sacked their former Member of Parliament, Fiona Onasanya in a recall petition. Labour won a 48 per cent share of the vote in the...
Arsenal star joins giant creature for World Environment Day protest against plastic pollution
Former Arsenal footballer Mathieu Flamini joined the protest aimed at protecting the ocean from plastic pollution and highlighting the climate crisis.
Police investigate suspicious fire at Oritse Williams’ mansion, a week after he was cleared of raping fan
The £3million property, owned by the 'The Club is Alive' singer, was badly damaged during the two-and-a-half hour blaze, which police are treating as potential arson.
Nigel Farage faces ban as MEP for failing to declare half a million in gifts from Brexit backing tycoon
MEP Nigel Farage, whose Brexit Party now has 29 MEPs and is in talks to join the far-right bloc in the European Parliament, may be suspended from his lucrative (£90,000 a year) job as an MEP. The European Parliament has issued Farage with a summons to a hearing on Wednesday afternoon at its code of conduct committee to explain why he failed to declare almost half a million in donations from Brexit-backing financier Arron Banks. A Channel 4 News investigation...