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Steve Baker was asked six times to explain how Jeremy Corbyn had "betrayed his country" in a scathing interview this afternoon. Andrew Neil tore in to the Brexit minister in an interview about the allegations that were revealed by The Sun newspaper. Defence secretary Gavin Williamson said Corbyn had "betrayed his country", but most of the allegations have since been proved to be shaky at best. The BBC presenter said: "Surely the real scandal isn’t what Mr Corbyn has done or...

Michael Gove used a shocking analogy in reference to his colleagues David Davis and Boris Johnson today - indicating that they're playing for different teams. Speaking to HuffPost UK, the Environment Secretary said Davis and Johnson are the “Messi and Ronaldo” of the Cabinet as he set out his red lines for Brexit. But while Lionel Messi plays for Barcelona, Cristiano Ronaldo plays for their arch rivals Real Madrid. When asked if he was a “bit annoyed” about not receiving top billing...

Labour is on course to sweep London in local elections with the best result for any party since 1968, a new poll has found. Jeremy Corbyn's party will seize several Tory strongholds and win a greater share of the vote than any party for 50 years, the poll shows. The Queen Mary University of London survey recorded 54 per cent of voters in the capital saying they would vote for the party in May's poll, compared to just 28 per cent for the Conservatives. As a result,...

The leader of a Tory council apologised to food campaigner Jack Monroe after a tweet citing her blog said a family unable to live off £10 a week were “dysfunctional” . Tim Warren, leader of Bath and North Somerset Council, apologised for the Twitter post, which cited Ms Monroe's blog about struggling to feed her child. The Twitter post, sent from the Bath Conservative Association account, read: "The reality may be indolent or dysfunctional parents or more likely parents who...

A new report has indicated the EU zone may be able to vastly increase its share of renewable energy into its overall energy mix by 2030. The report by the International Renewable Energy Agency (Irena) concluded that renewables could add up to 34 per cent into energy mix, more than double it’s current level. However, it would come at a price. To reach the 34 per cent figure the EU would need to pump in £55bn per annum into the...

RBS have come under fire from the Government after a full report into RBS business practices have been branded “disgraceful.” The Treasury Select Committee released its report into RBS' restructuring unit and "profit centre" GRG and it is damning. RBS claimed that the problems were caused by a few rogue employees, but the report has dismissed that as false. Royal Bank of Scotland operated the GRG from 2005 to 2013. At the unit’s peak it handled 16,000 ­companies. In 2008...

A Transavia flight from Dubai to Amsterdam was forced to make an emergency airline when a passenger wouldn’t stop farting. According to reports that have blown up in the Dutch press this week, the man’s constant wind wound up two fellow passengers who demanded he stopped blowing off. The men got eggy with his constant egging especially when crew on the low cost airline insisted they could not intervene to stop the flatulent passenger quacking. When he refused to stop...

Britain has significantly lowered its expectations for Brexit, giving few assurances other than that it is unlikely to end in "Mad Max-style dystopia". Despite significant promises being made for Britain's exit from the European Union in the run-up to the referendum, two years down the line the Secretary of State for Exiting the EU today only managed to give assurances that we will not be "plunged into a Mad Max-style world borrowed from dystopian fiction". Addressing business leaders in Vienna, David Davis referred...

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