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Corbygeddon could spell end of golden era for UK’s super rich

The UK’s super rich are preparing to leave the UK should Jeremy Corbyn enter Downing Street, a Sunday Times investigation has revealed. A record 151 billionaires were recorded on the paper’s Rich List this year, a 9.2 per cent rise on last year with a combined wealth of nearly £525 billion. But the prospect of a Labour government could spark a potential exodus, with tax increases prompting the wealthy to move their money out of the UK. Jeremy Corbyn's party...

London’s local authority budgets have dropped by nearly a fifth over the last eight years

New analysis by Centre for London has revealed that London’s local authority budgets have dropped by nearly a fifth (17 per cent) per head over the last eight years, with inner London boroughs hit the hardest. The analysis found that all principal service areas, with the exception of children’s social care, have seen budget reductions, with planning and development, highways and transport and cultural activity budgets facing the largest cuts. Taking London’s population growth into account, councils have seen an...

Jeremy Kyle Show suspended after guest dies

Monday’s Jeremy Kyle show was pulled at the last minute after a guest died after appearing on the daytime talk show. ITV have confirmed that the controversial tabloid show in which people air personal conflicts which airs at 9.25am weekdays will be replaced by Dickinson’s Real Deal and suspended while an investigation is carried out. A statement by ITV explained: “Everyone at ITV and The Jeremy Kyle Show is shocked and saddened at the news of the death of a...

White racial loyalist pamphlets distributed in Merseyside

Leaflets describing “how to become a white racial loyalist” have been reported to the police in Bootle after they were found on doorsteps.   Mat Flusk contacted Merseyside police after finding pamphlets promoting The Creativity Movement which claims that the “biological existence” of the white race is under threat. The pamphlet also says that the “White Race is responsible for all that which we call progress on this earth” and so it is “therefore logical and sensible to place supreme...

Tony Blair is wrong about ditching Labour for pro-Remain parties in London. Here’s why

Tony Blair has called on anti-Brexit Labour voters to back pro-Remain parties in the upcoming European Parliament elections to stop Nigel Farage’s party running riot. The former Prime Minister told Sky’s Sophy Ridge On Sunday that it is “important the anti-Brexit side is larger and stronger than the Farage side” in the elections, saying: “I do come across people who cannot vote for Labour, in which case I say ‘don’t stay at home – vote for any of the other...

Conservatives “clinging on to second place by their fingertips” as the Brexit Party makes gains

The UK’s two-party political system could become a thing of the past in the next General Election as the Conservatives cling on to second place by their fingertips, the latest voting intention figures show. Labour currently leads in the polls by a hefty margin, but the field is closing behind them. The Brexit party is polling at 21 per cent of the vote, one point behind the Conservatives who are wallowing on 22 per cent. The European Parliament elections are...

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