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Owen Smith has claimed he would have won the 2017 General Election if he had defeated Jeremy Corbyn. The former Labour leadership contender tried to oust Corbyn in July 2016 because of fractions in the party. He wrote on Twitter at the time: "On July 27 I asked @jeremycorbyn 3 times if he was prepared to see our party split & worse, wanted it to. He offered no answer". He continued, "In the same meeting, in response to the same question...

Preparations may be underway to sneak US President Donald Trump in to the UK in order to avoid protesters. According to a source close to the White House Theresa May's team are on standby for a visit, which may be confirmed only 24 hours in advance so anti-Trump protesters won't have time to disrupt a visit. The source was quoted as saying: "There is a window of opportunity for the president to visit Britain when he is in Europe later...

The tide appears to be turning against leaving the EU. A new poll found that 54 per cent of Brits would now vote to stay within the European Union. The poll, by Survation, may indicate to the government that they should opt for a softer Brexit, as the majority of people would now prefer to remain in the single market. Interestingly their research showed that over half of respondents hope that their would be a cross-party coalition of parties working...

A US senator has been pictured sunbathing with his family on a beach after closing it to the public because of a budget impasse. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie closed Island Beach State Park over the holiday weekend amid the state budget standoff in Trenton. But one family were allowed to ignore the ruling: Christie's. T Aerial photos by NJ Advance Media showed Christie surrounded by wife, Mary Pat Christie, and others on Sunday afternoon before the governor headed to Trenton to...

TWENTY per cent of the 100 largest payments under the European Union’s "direct" subsidy system now go to people or families on the Sunday Times Rich List. According to a new investigation by Energydesk billionaires and aristocrats last year scooped up an even greater proportion of the UK’s biggest farm subsidy payouts, with "basic payments" to the Top 100’s Rich List recipients totalling £11.2 million in 2016 – up from £10.6 million the previous year. Direct EU subsidies – now known as...

Labour MP Laura Pidcock's maiden speech to parliament has been lauded after she took an anti-establishment dig at Westminster. The speech has been likened to that of the SNP's Mhairi Black's first speech in which she launched a scathing attack on the Conservative Government addressing issues including benefit sanctions, the budget, and Harriet Harman's call on Labour MPs to abstain on a vote on the Government's welfare and work bill. Pidcock, the 29 year-old new MP for North West Durham, made a...

Coral exposed to radioactivity from nuclear bomb testing could hold the key to a cure for cancer, according to new research. The marine invertebrate at the bottom of the ocean floor has remarkable resistance to radiation exposure, say scientists. Now scientists hope to harness its innate gift in a bid to develop new therapies for humans. They are exploring how corals, which grow for centuries without developing cancer, have recolonised Bikini Atoll. The ring of sand in the Pacific Ocean...

A relieved father has posted an open letter praising paramedics after they saved his little boy’s life when he choked – on a GRAPE. Steve Hulbert feared his son Oli was about to die after he went limp and his lips turned blue after swallowing the fruit. Oli lost consiousness and after a 999 call paramedics arrived and quickly dislodged the grape – almost certianly saving his life. Dad Steve has now posted a picture of Oli in his hospital...

This is a full list of the MP’s who voted against an amendment to end the public sector pay cap imposed since 2010 and halt further emergency services cuts. Last night Theresa May survived the first test of her slim minority government, defeating a Labour Party amendment to the Queen’s Speech calling for an end to cuts to the police and the fire service, the end of the 1% public sector pay cap and to give emergency and public services a...