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Theresa May's first major live appearance since a shambolic Conservative Party Conference speech in which she was served a P45 by a comedian was a chance to make the comeback the beleaguered Prime Minister urgently needed. Instead it was a shocking balls up. Three times when pressed by LBC presenter Iain Dale, the PM refused to say how she would vote tomorrow if there was another referendum on leaving the EU. Yet three times when asked,  May refused  guarantee that 3.2...

In a live interview on LBC radio streamed across social media, Prime Minister Theresa May just refused THREE times to say if she would vote for a Brexit if there was another EU Referendum. The Prime Minister was originally a supporter of the Remain Campaign, all be it a rather shy one who kept out of the public eye during the EU Referendum campaign. (Though she did deliver this very persuasive speech to business leaders outlining why she was convinced...

Scottish Labour reacted to Mhairi Black's attacks on Jeremy Corbyn at the SNP Conference with a scathing attack on her record in office and that of her party. "I am so disappointed with Jeremy Corbyn, so disappointed," the SNP MP for Paisley and Renfrewshire had told the SNP Conference, warning the Labour Leader: "don’t dare spread fear and utter drivel about an independent Scotland meaning we would suffer turbo austerity." "I’m sick to the back teeth of British nationalists perpetuating the...

GMB, the union for NHS staff, has slammed Jeremy Hunt’s pay cap announcement today as nothing more than a ‘con trick.' Without new funding 'productivity improvements' just looks like code for cuts to jobs and services The health secretary told MPs the NHS pay cap has been scrapped, but was unable to rule out cutting health services to fund rises above 1%. He added the “latitude” provided to him by Chancellor Philip Hammond was partly linked to “productivity improvements” which...

Rather than pretending it is their way or no way and that they are in some way above the law and therefore not bound to follow the laws of the land as all other employers are required to do, these companies need to play by the rules says GMB. GMB, the union for gig economy workers, today joined Uber, Amazon and Hermes workers to tell a parliamentary committee of MPs about the horrors of life in the gig economy. Speaking...

The UK's youngest MP brought the house down at the SNP Conference with an emotive speech on Tory austerity and the damage it had wreaked. Mhairi Black started off mocking Prime Minister Theresa May by complaining she had a cough too, before insisting that Scotland is strong enough to survive as an independent entity. "Why would Westminster genuinely want to keep us if we were a financial burden?" asked the 23 year old MP. But she saved her greatest vitriol...

Conservationists have released photos and video of the rescue of a young female orangutan found boarded up in a wooden crate in a village in West Borneo. The infant, thought to be about three years old, had been found by a local man from Banyu Abang Village, Teluk Batang Districk, Kayong Utara Regency. He claimed to have found the orangutan on his farmland, not far from a palm oil plantation. The villager, known as Bahtiar, kept the orangutan for about...

Around 1,200lbs of fish corpses were dragged out of a canal last week in what has been described as a “level one fish kill”. A local fishing club blamed the Canal and River Trust for irresponsibly clearing the canal without considering the repercussions of their actions. The haul of dead fish weighed the equivalent of more than a whole polar bear. Steve Sharp, spoke on behalf of the fishing club and said: “Sadly overnight on Sunday 1st October there was...

People who feel their work is integral to their lives and identity may actually find it difficult to sustain productivity over long periods of time, new research from Kings Business School suggests. According to Dr Michael Clinton, who studied the working lives of 193 Church of England ministers, people who view their career as an intense calling are less able to successfully disengage from work in the evenings which limits their energy levels the following morning. One would assume that these people...