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Damning new research has revealed public sector workers are turning to payday loans to make ends meet. The study has been revealed a day after Theresa May narrowly defeated a bid to end the pay freeze in the House of Commons. Labour’s amendment was defeated by 14 votes, with 309 MPs backing it and 323 voting against, with all ten Democratic Unionist Party MPs backing the Tories. But the issue is unlikely to be laid to rest there. A shocking...

Today Theresa May survived the first test of her slim minority government, clinging on with the support of ten DUP MP’s in Parliament’s first vote on her curtailed Queen’s Speech programme which did not include any easing of cuts to emergency and public services. A Labour amendment on easing emergency and public servants cuts that was the first test of her ability to govern was defeated by 323 to 309 votes. The Labour Party amendment to the Queen’s Speech pointed out...

The first PMQs of the new Parliament, if not quite new Government, began with a Tory MP seemingly blaming Corbyn for someone urinating outside her constituency office door. Not sure you can directly blame Corbyn that somebody took a leak outside your office, but that is what she was trying to allude to. Desperate times and all that. So how do we apportion blame? Well the rejuvenated Labour leader had a few ideas today. However, he began by praising the...

Under the Conservative led coalition the number of British people who fell into the poverty trap grew by almost three quarters of a million, according to figures from the ONS (Office for National Statistics) . In 2014 there were 3.9 million people who struggled to survive in the UK but it was 4.6 million a year later, a very worrying rise in such a short space of time. The citizens were caught the cycle of “persistent” poverty. Alongside these worrying...

GMB union, which represents thousands of workers on Merseyside - and whose General Secretary was at Hillsborough on the day of the disaster - has responded to the decision of the CPS to bring charges against those involved in the 96 deaths. Former Ch Supt David Duckenfield faces 95 charges of manslaughter and five other senior figures will be prosecuted over the 1989 Hillsborough disaster. Mr Duckenfield was match commander at the FA Cup semi-final when 96 Liverpool fans were...

The Conservative Party assumes that people want lower taxes and the rolling back of the public sector, and under Thatcher that approach worked and kept the party in power for a long period of time. However, it appears that the British people are increasingly in favour of the opposite and welcome an increase in taxes and Govt spending, according to a new study. The research found that almost half of people in the British Isles want the Government to raise...

A rare flower that stinks of ROTTING FLESH has bloomed at a prestigious university garden. The Titan Arum - also known as the corpse flower - at Cambridge University's Botanic Garden burst into life on Monday night. Hundreds of people gathered for the occurrence which was happening for the first time in 13 years. The flower emits a rancid stench to attract pollinators and is more pungent at night when it heats up to about 40C. Prof Beverley Glover, director...

Britain’s most hipster school has opened where children have no rules, exams or uniform, climb trees barefoot and learn just three days a week – in a YURT. Pupils at The Green House Education Project spend their time playing outside and wearing what they like. They don’t have desks but instead sit on blankets and huddle round wood burning stoves. The kids are not tutored in traditional subjects but instead are taught ‘how to resolve problems’, ‘find their real passion...

In extraordinary scenes in the House of Commons today, the Health Secretary was accused of a cover up and conflict of interest while presiding over the biggest scandal of lost patients records ever revealed in the NHS by his Labour Party counterpart in an emergency debate and responded: “transparency is not an absolute virtue.” Hundreds of thousands of confidential patient records contracted to be looked after by a company half owned by Jeremy Hunt's Department for Health and half owned...