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Watch: Cheers and applause ring out at Tham Luang Cave as all 12 boys rescued

Cheers and applause rang out at the volunteer site at Tham Luang Cave today as all 12 boys were brought to safety. The boys and their coach were trapped by floods more than two weeks ago. Thai Navy Seals begun the hazardous operation to extract the schoolboys and football coach earlier this week, and recovered four people yesterday. It was confirmed a short while ago that all 12 boys and coach are now out, with a rescue doctor and three Navy Seals who...

“No one should need to turn to a foodbank” Mind & The Trussell Trust evidence problems with Universal Credit

Representatives from leading mental health charity Mind and anti-poverty charity The Trussell Trust gave evidence to the Public Accounts Committee yesterday about the roll-out of Universal Credit (UC). Both charities have recently called on the Government to delay the roll out of UC after the National Audit Office (NAO) released a damning report highlighting how the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has not done enough to protect and support ‘vulnerable claimants’ including disabled people and people with health conditions. Paul Farmer,...

Millionaire Geoffrey Cox joins cabinet…he claimed 49p for milk & spoke out for tax havens

A real man of the people has joined the cabinet after Boris Johnson and David Davis decided their jobs were just too hard for them. Jeremy Hunt has moved to Foreign Sec and Matt Hancock to Health to replace him, The PM promoted the Attorney General Jeremy Wright to Hancock’s old role leaving room for Geoffrey Cox to take Wright’s job. Mr Cox is a millionaire and one of the richest MPs in Parliament. He may well be a wealthy...

Boris Brexit resignation letter warns of Britain only achieving a “semi”:

BREAKING NEWS: Boris Johnson's resignation letter warns that the Government's course will leave Britain as a colony of the EU with no say over policies in a semi - Brexit. Johnson wrote that the compromise that Theresa May had claimed her cabinet had assented to less than 48 hours before her cabinet was rocked by three resignations, leaves Britain with the “status of a colony.” He claimed that the Brexit deal Theresa May is seeking to avoided crossing any of...

Labour odds-on favourites for 2018 general election

Labour are now odds on to triumph at the next general election, with 2018 also the frontrunner to be the year that Britain next goes to the polls. The Tories were plunged into chaos this week following the resignations of David Davis and Boris Johnson. The resignations come on the back of Theresa May's Brexit strategy which has divided the cabinet and makes the possibility of another snap election more likely. Betway’s Alan Alger said: “They’re fleeing Cabinet like rats from...

Boris Johnson resigns as Foreign Secretary

Boris Johnson has resigned as Foreign Secretary just hours after David Davis walked away from the cabinet. The outspoken Brexiter joins a long list of MPs to quit Theresa May's cabinet, leaving the PM in dire straits. David Davis and his junior minister Steve Baker resigned their positions on Sunday night, and now Johnson has walked away in what is thought to be a protest over the Brexit policy she agreed with ministers at Chequers on Friday. Johnson, the most high-profile...

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