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There has been some sobering news for the majority of people who are struggling to get on the housing ladder or simply want to live in decent accommodation. New figures show that only just over 32,000 “affordable homes” were built in the year leading up to March 2016, a worrying 24-year low. In the previous year 66,600 cheaper homes were constructed, double the following year. The figures were supplied by the DCLG (Department for Communities and Local Government) and the...

The UKIP wheels continue to fall off; this time the issue is using EU cash to push the Brexit referendum campaign. A leaked document, seen by Sky News has found that the party used EU funds on polling in the build up the EU referendum and the General Election. Using the funds for these campaigns breaks EU spending rules and means the party will have to pay back all or a portion of the total sum spent. The party splurged...

Canada is about to scrap its controversial visa requirements for Mexican visitors. Donald Trump entering the White House is only likely to spell bad news for Mexicans in the US or hoping to re-locate to America. Trump is still vowing to build a wall (with a bit of fencing in parts) across the entire border and said he will deport as many illegal immigrants as possible, ranging from one to three million. A lot of these people are likely to...

Corbyn promised not to resort to Punch and Judy politics when he became Labour leader and PMQs have been pretty bleak ever since. However lately he has thrown his morals out of the window, bad for his unshakable moral fibre, good for us. Maybe he doesn’t even mind about nuclear proliferation after all and the last thirty years of activism has been a ruse to get his mum to knit him some more jumpers. Corbyn laid into Theresa May over...

A report by the Social Mobility Commission has warned the government about a worrying trend of "treadmill families" who are "running harder and harder but standing still". The study highlights a "deep social mobility problem" in Britain which has resulted in an unfair education system, a two-tier labour market, a regionally imbalanced economy and unaffordable housing. Young families can now no longer expect to do as well as their parents' generation, with fault-lines of wealth and opportunity now patently obvious. Commission chair Alan Milburn says: "So...

New pictures have emerged of a group of prisoners enjoying takeaways, thick cuts of steak and joking about how they snuck a kebab in through the window at Britain's understaffed prisons. A man who accidentally added a serving prisoner on Facebook was shocked when his timeline became filled with lags - having a great time and acting like students. Inmates jailed for a variety of violent offences uploaded pictures of them drinking booze, taking drugs and getting takeaways delivered to their prison...

A Christian preacher has been recorded screaming homophobic abuse outside a gay politician's house, telling him he will die if he doesn't repent. Former Lib Dem councillor Christian Martin filmed the man branding a wooden cross and screaming "Homosexuality is wrong". The politician runs a film production company that makes gay films, flies a rainbow flag outside of his family home and advocates for LGBT rights. Footage captures the man, who is dressed in dark clothes and wielding a wooden cross, bellowing: "Same...

The employment rate is at the highest level since records began in 1971, according to ONS data. There were just 1.6 million unemployed people from July to September 2016, 37,000 fewer than for April to June 2016 and 146,000 fewer than for a year earlier. However, the number economically inactive people increased, with 8.89 million people aged from 16 to 64 not working and not seeking or available to work, 49,000 more than for April to June 2016. ONS Statistician David Freeman said...

Britain, for almost six full days last quarter, was completely coal free – the first instance Britain burnt no coal to produce its electricity since 1881. These findings are more positive renewable energy news for the UK, which follows on from Scotland’s ability to power itself, using only green energy. Also in the third quarter of 2016 the UK was able to produce over half of its electricity from low-carbon sources. In period between July and September biomass, nuclear, wind,...