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Winston Churchill’s grandson wants Brexit “blown up & started again”

The Brexit mess is leaving many people inside and outside of parliament totally at a loss at where is can go from here. Today Winson Churchill’s grandson, Sir Nicholas Soames launched into the debate, in a nonsense speech in Parliament. He was furious after the Vote Leave campaign broke electoral law during the EU vote. A massive £600,000 was handed over to a 23-year-old in the lead up to the crucial 2016 vote. This transfer of cash meant that Vote...

Fox News turns on Trump following “disgusting” Putin summit

Fox News looks to have turned its back on Donald Trump following his controversial summit with Vladimir Putin. Several of its high-profile journalists have criticised the President in a rare attack. Fox Business's Neil Cavuto labelled Trump's refusal to challenge Mr Putin on Russian election meddling “disgusting” and said the president was “essentially letting the guy get away with this, not even offering a mild, a mild criticism". Trish Regan, also of Fox Business, branded the president's appearance "unpatriotic". “He...

Government inaction freezing the self-employed out of Universal Credit

The Government’s refusal to change its position on monthly calculations for Universal Credit payments will continue to unfairly punish the self-employed, IPSE (the Association of Independent Professionals and the Self-Employed) said today. The Government ruled out making changes to the system of monthly calculations in its response released today to the Work and Pensions Committee ‘Universal Credit for the Self-Employed’ report. IPSE’s Policy Development Manager, Jordan Marshall, comments:“It is disappointing that the Government hasn’t listened to the repeated warnings of industry, trade...

Theresa May bailed out by the “party of the Remainers”

Liberal Democrat leader Vince Cable and his predecessor Tim Farron have been criticised for missing key votes on Brexit last night, despite pedalling an anti-Brexit agenda. According to party sources Cable was "off the parliamentary estate at an important meeting” and his absence was “approved by LibDem whips” - because the party “didn’t expect vote to be close”. As Robert Peston noted on Twitter this morning, it's a "shame in this age of social media there’s no way of staying in touch"....

Vote Leave fined and referred to police for breaking electoral law

Vote Leave has been fined and referred to police after exceeding its spending limit by almost half a million pounds in the referendum. An investigation by the Electoral Commission found "significant evidence of joint working" between the group and another organisation - BeLeave - leading to it exceeding its spending limit by almost £500,000. Vote Leave also returned an "incomplete and inaccurate spending report", with almost £234,501 reported incorrectly, and invoices missing for £12,849.99 of spending, the watchdog said. According the conclusions of...

Who are the shadowy ERG party within a party that just hijacked May’s Brexit?

Last night in parliament, irony died, and perhaps with it the chance of any Brexit deal being accepted by enough of Theresa May’s threadbare majority. In a bizarre turn of events, the Prime Minister, weakened by nine resignations in eight days orchestrated by shadowy Tory 'government within a government' the ERG (plus one resignation of a key ally over sending filthy texts to constituents) was forced to “cave in” and not only accept ERG amendments that made her Brexit White...

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