Last week Jeremy Corbyn delivered his second keynote speech as the leader of the Labour party at its annual conference. He did so after being re-elected as leader, with increased support and a stronger mandate from the party membership. It was a speech that received loud applause from many in ...
In a recent article for The London Economic, Robert Owens challenged readers that if they thought Jeremy Corbyn was a loser, they had probably been brainwashed. Basically, the point of the article was that Jeremy is a hard-working MP who works very hard for social justice but since he threatens ...
Former underdog Jeremy Corbyn is on course to beat challenger Owen Smith and will most likely be re-elected leader of the Labour Party next week. But then what? From purges to merges, deselections to elections, here are ten things to keep an eye on: 1. Reselections It used to be the case that before ...
There have been some critics who have said that the Labour leader has massive core support, but few polices, well this afternoon he plans to change that. Today Corbyn is expected to reveal a number of pledges that he hopes will change the face of Britain. A major part of ...
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor Shockingly the worst ten per cent of households actually paid back 47 per cent of their earnings back in taxes in 2014/15 compared to only 34 per cent for the richest ten per cent, reports the Mirror. The news will come as no shock to ...
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor There were rumours of plots to oust the Labour leader, even after a decent enough showing in the recent local elections, but a new poll shows that he won’t be going anywhere any time soon. A YouGov survey for the Times, has discovered that almost ...
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor David Cameron will be making a statement to Parliament after his tax affairs revealed he may have sold off another huge amount of shares back in 2010. He will be questioned about a new stash of shares worth £72K according to the Mirror. Cameron has ...
David Cameron "effectively" inherited half a million pounds without paying a penny in tax, it has been revealed. The PM received £200,000 from his mother after his father's death which will only become liable to inheritance tax of up to 40 per cent if she dies within seven years of handing over ...
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor Yesterday Osborne sent his deputy David Gauke to take the hits from the House of his Budget statement. Cowardly George didn’t fancy facing any dissent. Gauke failed to give an answer to how the black hole left by the scrapping of disability benefit cuts would ...
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor The Chancellor is going to dodge questions in the Commons over his Budget, which has increasingly turned into a farce. Some Labour members have branded Osborne a “chicken” and even compared him to the cowardly lion, that features in The Wizard of Oz. John McDonnell ...
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor Conservative MPs voted to slash nearly £1billion from tax credits, even though the Chancellor swore he wouldn’t cut the benefit; that helps millions of hardworking families across the UK. A little-known catch will hit hundreds of thousands of people and was approved in a very ...
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor Around 50 Conservative MPs are planning to rebel against the Chancellor’s plans to relax the Sunday trading laws, which also includes two ministers who may be ready to resign. The Chancellor, George Osborne, is facing another backlash from his party, this time over extending shopping ...
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor A little noticed change that slipped past the Chancellor’s U-turn will clobber hundreds of thousands of workers. George Osborne stated he was ditching tax credit cuts, which would have seen over three million families lose around £1,300 per annum. However, it has been revealed that ...
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor I guess if you failed to get on X factor, Britain’s Got Talent and that naked TV game show with Keith Chegwin, you can always e-mail Jeremy Corbyn for your fifteen minutes of fame, and hope he asks your question out. The lady who was ...
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Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn brought forward his keynote conference speech after the Supreme Court ruled the suspension of Parliament was unlawful.
The Welsh First Minister said Boris Johnson had played fast and loose with the constitution.
Both Conservative and Labour MPs have made the move after prorogation was deemed unlawful.
Beatrice Wishart becomes the first female parliamentarian elected to represent the area.
The Government posted a £1.3 billion surplus in July, according to the Office for National Statistics.
Plaid, SNP and Conservative MPs have responded positively to Jeremy Corbyn’s Caretaker Government offer by confirming that they are willing to meet.
Why the oldest plutocracy in the world is terrified of 'Corbygeddon'
The public sector borrowed £7.2 billion in June – £3.8 billion more than June last year.
The shadow home secretary retweeted a series of critical remarks about the deputy leader, including one questioning his position.
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The party’s general secretary and deputy leader have clashed in a public exchange of letters.
Philip Hammond also expressed his dislike for ‘ad hoc’ spending or tax-cut commitments, in an apparent nod to the Tory leadership race.
Diane Abbot has become the latest senior Labour figure to express concerns about the party’s policy on Brexit. The shadow home secretary – one of Jeremy Corbyn’s closest allies – said she was “beginning to worry” whether the party had got its strategy right. Her intervention will add to the ...
Families on the lowest incomes paid 47.6 per cent of their gross income in tax in 2017-18, new research has revealed. TaxPayers' Alliance analysis shows higher taxes have hit the poorest families hardest over the last decade, increasing by 4.4 per cent since 2008-09. Meanwhile, the richest tenth pay 33.5 ...
Britain has been described as the “greatest enabler of corporate tax avoidance in the world” after it was revealed eight out of the ten jurisdictions with the highest corporate tax haven scores are British territories. Research by the Tax Justice Network found the UK and its “corporate tax haven network” ...
News today that councils are having to sell off libraries, playgrounds and public buildings to pay for austerity-induced cuts and redundancies should come as no surprise to those well versed in the self-defeating nature of such policies. As early as 2016 the International Monetary Fund were sounding the alarm about ...
Austerity policies have resulted in nine years of slower growth and left us all £1,495 a year worse off, analysis by The New Economics Foundation has revealed. The think tank found the impact of tax and spending changes since the Conservatives came to power had left the economy £100 billion smaller than ...
In the biggest split in the Labour party since the 1980s, when the breakaway SDP was formed, it is expected that a number if MPs are set to leave Labour today, There have been rumours swirling for sometime, and momentum for the plan appeared to be increasing last week. It ...
Theresa May has been ridiculed after she argued a People's Vote would "overturn the will of the British people". J.K. Rowling led the social media onslaught saying May's comments in response to John McDonnell's assertion that Labour will inevitably back a second Brexit referendum "make literally no sense". "Who does she think would ...
Brexiteer Michael Gove last night revealed his Game of Thrones ‘soulmate’ is Tyrion Lannister as negotiations over Britain's exit from the European Union reach a crucial juncture. The environment secretary was criticised after he posted on Twitter the results of a quiz entitled “Who’s your ‘Game of Thrones’ soulmate?” last night. He ...
The Conservatives have been dubbed a "zombie party" after they were defeated in the House of Commons for the third day in a row. Not a single Tory voted to support the government in an appeal to change the horse racing betting levy order in a joint regulatory reform committee. ...
After 4 days of a party conference where Brexit agenda issues were conspicuous by their absence we finally got some clarity on Labour’s position on Brexit. They want a general election at any cost. A huge surge of support for a national referendum on the final Brexit deal has been ...
Polling shows the public expect a recession within the next 2 years GMB, Britain’s general union, has called on the Government to 'get it's act together' as ONS figures released this morning showed GDP struggling at just 0.1% growth in the first quarter of 2018. Recent polling by Survation on ...
I didn't eat for a day last week. This wasn't due to a bad curry or a particularly good night out on the town. My day of abstinence had a more noble purpose as I joined hundreds of others as part of a day of action organised by Make Votes ...
This weekend much of the British Press - as well as the BBC - mindlessly repeated the hysterical analysis propagated by the Right Wing 'think tank' The Centre for Policy Studies. Here is a listing of their Board of Directors. As you can see, it contains 10 Tories. They are: ...
Shocking new analysis by the Resolution Foundation has revealed pay in real terms won’t be back to 2007 level until 2025. According to the research average annual pay peaked in the autumn of 2007 at £31,644 (in 2016 prices). Once inflation is taken into account, average pay will not be back at ...
A new study has revealed a fascinating inter-generational divide over trust on the economy. Despite both parties being neck-and-neck overall, the Sky Data poll found huge splits between young and old. Of 18 to 34-year-olds, 62 per cent want Labour in charge of the nation's finances, versus 28 per cent ...
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 ...
I have a pen-pal in the Shadow Cabinet, a bond having been forged during the upheavals of the PLP's failed rising against Jeremy Corbyn. Ever since, on a irregular basis I have shared observations drawn from the experience of years spent fighting elections as a Liberal Party apparatchik in Canada. ...
114 MPs voted against giving the European Union (Notification of Withdrawl) Bill a second reading. The Bill gives Theresa May the power to invoke Article 50 and start the two year, irreversible process of Brexit. The group included 50 SNP MPs, 47 Labour, seven Liberal Democrats alongside Tory Ken Clarke ...
MPs last night backed the government's European Union Bill by a massive majority of 384 allowing the Bill to pass through to the next stages in parliament and further towards Prime Minister Theresa May Brexit starting negotiations, as the Labour leadership supported the progress of Prime Minister Theresa May's Bill for ...
