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David Davis lands £3k an HOUR role as advisor to major Tory donor

The revolving door between Government and big business is a well-trodden path, which shows no signs of abating. Now former Brexit Secretary, David Davis, will trouser a colossal £3,000 an hour as an advisor to JCB. The firm ploughs million into the Conservative Party. It total Davis will be paid £60k for 20 hours work per annum. He will receive £50 a minute for his work. Davis said he had complied with the rules concerning former ministers' employment. He resigned from...

Brexit: “Real threat of violence from far right”

The hostile atmosphere over Brexit could be exploited by far-right extremists, claims the UK's most senior counter-terrorism officer  Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu said 18 terror plots were foiled in Britain since 2017, four of them far-right.  Mr Basu told the BBC: "We saw a spike in hate crime after the referendum, that's never really receded. "So there's always a possibility people are being radicalised by the kind of febrile atmosphere we've got at the moment. "We want people to report...

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