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Melania Trump has been accused of plagiarising a speech written for First Lady Michelle Obama. Donald's wife Melania was speaking at the Republican National Convention and was widely praised by the media for delivering a rousing speech. But she appears to have lifted at least one crucial section of her speech from the one Michelle Obama gave at the 2008 Democratic National Convention. They do look eerily similar: Trump: My parents impressed on me the values... Obama: ...like: you work hard for what...

Our new PM Theresa May has told the Commons that she would press the red button and launch a nuclear attack that could kill one hundred thousand people. She said that the fact she was willing to take such drastic action means others would not attack the UK with the same weaponry. May added it was "sad" that the Green Party and some members of the Labour party are the "first to defend the country’s enemies. Additionally she said it would...

Labour leadership candidate Owen Smith appears to have dropped himself in hot water with comments he made during a TV interview. Smith declared himself “normal” as he has three children and a wife. However, he has come under criticism, and been compared to Andrea Leadsom who believed she had the edge over rival Theresa May, as she is a mother and May isn’t. This lead to Leadsom having to leave the leadership race, it is yet to been seen if...

Greenland has lost a trillion tons of ice in four years, according to a new paper published by scientists in Geophysical Research Letters. Tests using the Cryosat-2 satellite revealed that the North Atlantic island loses ice at a rate of about 287 billion tons per year, which is the equivalent of loosing a six mile square cube of ice over four years. The melted ice has caused the sea level to rise about 2.5 mm over those four years. That rate of sea...

The UK is set to endure another recession at the turn of the year with growth forecasts cut from 2.6 and 2.4 per cent three months ago respectively, to 0.4 per cent and 1.4 per cent today. "Severe confidence effects on spending and business” have been projected by the EY Item Club, with unemployment rising from 5 per cent currently to 7.1 per cent by the end of 2019. This will have a knock-on impact on household real disposable income, which is...

By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor Nigel Farage was caught out by a clever question as he appeared on an LBC radio show. The caller said he thought that speaking English was necessary for new people entering the UK to live. “I don’t see how you can integrate when you don’t speak the language of the country,” said the caller, to Nigel Farage. “I couldn’t agree with you more. I think you’re right and I think the language is absolutely fundamental,”...

The House of Lords will discuss the possibility of having a central bank digital currency called "Britcoin" tomorrow. Its Economic Affairs Committee will take evidence from the Deputy Governor of the Bank of England on blockchain technology, the distributed ledger that allows Bitcoin to function as an online currency. In the session with Dr Ben Broadbent the Committee will explore the prospect of a central bank digital currency and the effect it could have on commercial banks, predictions that blockchain...

London Gatwick Airport is the new favourite to get an additional runway after pro-Gatwick Sadiq Khan won the London mayoral election and a number of anti-Heathrow MPs were appointed to Theresa May’s cabinet. Betway has cut odds on Gatwick to 4/7 while Heathrow Airport’s odds of being awarded the right to develop a new runway have lengthened to 5/4. Justine Greening, MP for Putney and newly appointed education minister is vehemently against Heathrow expansion, as is the MP for Uxbridge and Ruislip and...

A new centre-left party is a "real possibility", according to Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron. As Labour MPs become increasingly frustrated by Labour isolation and the Lib Dems try to claw back lost seats from the last General Election, the possibility of a new alliance to oppose the Tories is becoming increasingly likely. Talking to the Independent, Farron said he has already held "off-camera" conversations on the issue with politicians from other parties. He said: "There are loads of people out...