Business Secretary Greg Clark refused to rule out imposing zero tariffs which would ‘rip the heart’ out of UK manufacturing. Today in Parliament Louise Haigh MP asked the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy if he agreed zero tariffs “leave us open to a flood of cheap ...
New video show Labour leader's hardline stance
A video of a Leave-voting expat who bought his Spanish holiday home after the referendum has been making the rounds on social media after he realised an end to free movement would apply to him too. Dave, who bought a holiday home in Spain after voting to leave, says he ...
Theresa May wrote to Jeremy Corbyn last night and rejected the Labour leader's call for the UK to stay in a permanent customs union with the EU. She has effectively ruled out Labour’s ideas for a compromise Brexit plan. The PM stressed her objections to keeping the UK in some ...
The ONS (Office for National Statistics) reported that the growth in 2018 was 1.4% down from 1.8% in 2017. Even more worryingly this is the lowest rate since 2012. According to the ONS, quarterly growth also slowed, falling to 0.2% in the three months to December - down from 0.6% ...
Conservative MP Christopher Chope who recently scuppered legislation against 'upskirting' - filming up women's skirts - has now blocked a bill to safeguard children from female genital mutilation (FGM). This bill was also a private members bill, and yet again Chope used parliamentary practice to object to a second reading ...
The Bank of England has downgraded its growth forecast for 2019 growth to 1.2%, which would be the smallest rise since 2009. Sterling tumbled on the news and was trading 0.6% down versus the US dollar at $1.285. Against the euro, the pound was down 0.3% at €1.134. The PM ...
Lies... there have been loads of them. And not all on the side of a bus. Banning bendy bananas... renaming Bombay Mix to make the snack politically correct... rolling out a one-size-fits-all “euro condom” - a certain section of the British press have shamelessly misrepresented the EU to invent the kind ...
Liam Nissan says he is scratching his head over what he might have done after becoming embroiled in a race-hate-cum-Brexit-manufacturing storm. The 58 year-old clerk from Wiltshire has gone into hiding after getting caught up in a clash of national news scandals. Trolls have dubbed him a “jobs bastard” and ...
Chris Grayling has been banned from Calais by port officials who are furious with his 'no deal' Brexit plans, The Telegraph has reported. The transport secretary has been given his marching orders by port chairman Jean-Marc Puissesseau, who accused the UK cabinet minister of behaving in a “completely disrespectful” manner on Tuesday. ...
Film lovers are clamouring for movies based on David Bowie, Bob Marley and Frank Sinatra, according to a survey. After the success of 2018’s Bohemian Rhapsody, based on rock group Queen, researchers polled the British public to find out what other musical stories they’d like to see on the silver ...
One of the most influential architects of the Good Friday Agreement has told the BBC he is planning to take the government to court over the Irish backstop proposals included in the current Brexit deal. Former First Minister of Northern Ireland Lord David Trimble, who was jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for ...
Number 10 has admitted there are no imminent meetings planned between the Prime Minister and other EU leaders. However, the PM is still hoping she can secure concessions on the Northern Ireland border by next week. Theresa May is due to visit Northern Ireland tomorrow to try to win support for ...
Tweets shown on digital screen include the October 2016 post: “Project Fear claims Nissan would scale back UK operation could not have been further from the truth.”
Nearly 30 years-worth of Britain’s net EU budgetary contribution was lost in one click this week after Barclays announced it is to move €190 billion (£166 billion) worth of assets from the UK to Ireland in preparation for a possible no-deal Brexit. The bank said it "cannot wait any longer" to ...
New analysis indicates that last year, the UK generated the least electricity in a quarter century—while renewable power generation hit fresh highs. Meanwhile, Alstom released designs for a zero-emissions hydrogen train which could be used on British railways as soon as 2022. These are encouraging developments—but they are by no ...
Caring mum Hazel Osborne died on New Year’s Eve aged 86 - leaving behind her adult children Susan and Kevin who both have severe learning difficulties
Labour MP Jess Phillips received a rapturous response in parliament after she lamented the proposed £30,000 salary test for immigrants. The government published a heavily-delayed immigration White Paper last month setting out requirements for workers hoping to move to the UK. In what Sajid Javid described as the "biggest shakeup to the ...
Investment in the UK car sector has dropped by almost £2 billion in three years as Brexit fears put firms on "red alert", the industry's trade body said. In 2015, car manufacturers invested £2.5 billion in the UK. Since then it has fallen ever year and in 2018 was just £589 ...
The Tab Hull editor Christian Calgie, 21, wrote a comment piece for the website and hit out at the behaviour of Young Conservatives
Gerard Batten has claimed just 100 lorries cross the Republic of Ireland–United Kingdom border a day and that Guinness accounts for half of them in an astonishing Twitter rant. The UKIP leader was responding to a James O'Brien segment on LBC radio discussing why Brexiters hate the Irish backstop so much. O'Brien ...
Boris Johnson and Dominic Raab were both spectacularly shut down on live television last night. The former Foreign Secretary was dubbed "deluded" by Sky News reporter Beth Rigby after he insisted Prime Minister Theresa May is now in a position to “go to Brussels and get the freedom clause that the UK ...
An hour before Theresa May told the House of Commons to vote for the government to reopen negotiations, Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker had been in contact to convey that it would be fruitless for her to come to Brussels on the basis of an attempt to reopen the Withdrawal Agreement. Indeed, ...
From the viewpoint of January 2019, there is one thing of which we can all be certain – no one really knows where house prices will be this time next year. There are plenty of different factors at play, including some global economic issues outside of the control of the ...
MPs voted against Labour MP Yvette Cooper’s amendment which attempted to stop the possibility of a no deal Brexit happening. The motion was voted against by 298 to 321 votes. The Labour MP’s amendment had the support of the Labour leadership and some Conservative MPs as it tried to stop ...
Two and half years on from the referendum and those sunlit uplands we were promised are starting to look more like a raging forest fire on the horizon. What was supposed to be the “easiest deal in history” has boiled down to a Prime Minister in absurd denial about a ...
Sir James Dyson, Mike Ashley and the Coates family enjoyed momentary respite yesterday after appearing in the top 50 taxpayers list. Following a few turbulent weeks in which prominent Brexiteer Dyson shafted Britain by moving his company's headquarters to Singapore and Sports Direct owner Ashley shafted the city of Newcastle by ...
Last week the Queen took time out of her busy schedule to appeal to the nation to find “common ground” in a divisive “modern age”. Addressing a women’s group in Sandringham, she said she prefers the tried and tested recipes “like speaking well of each other and respecting different points ...
2018 – the return of volatility A trade war, Brexit, US interest rate rises, slowing Chinese growth, a US government shutdown, a dispute over Italy’s budget, the Skripal poisonings, numerous elections – there was plenty to worry about in 2018. A last-minute dive left the US market in negative territory.Sterling continued ...
The drastic slump on the high street shows no signs of improving after a report indicated that 70,000 retail jobs were cut in 2018. Customers are increasingly shopping on-line leading to huge falls in profits for many household name retailers. The British Retail Consortium (BRC), who conducted the study, said ...
The revolving door between Government and big business is a well-trodden path, which shows no signs of abating. Now former Brexit Secretary, David Davis, will trouser a colossal £3,000 an hour as an advisor to JCB. The firm ploughs million into the Conservative Party. It total Davis will be paid ...
“How many more must die before the Government takes positive action to keep people safe in their beds?”
Brexit-backer Sir James Dyson is to relocate the Dyson head office from the UK to Singapore. The prominent Leaver revealed that the island city-state will become the company’s registered headquarters and tax base. The headquarters will switch from Malmesbury, Wiltshire, in a move that is said to be unrelated to ...
The only moments in life that count for something are the exceptions. Mondays are Mondays just as Tuesdays blend into every other Tuesday except for the Wednesday that wasn’t a Wednesday because it was the day when, like the title of Joe Heller’s oft-neglected yet brilliant novel, Something Happened. For ...
A rationalist has destroyed Leave claims that exiting the EU means "taking back control" by listing all the EU laws that have been forced on us against our will. According to the commons library just 4,514 out of 34,105 laws have been influenced by the EU, of which just 72 of them were ...
David Cameron assured Donald Tusk that there was "no risk of a referendum" after promising to hold a vote on Britain's membership of the European Union in his 2015 General Election manifesto. The former Conservative leader believed he wouldn't need to hold a vote because he expected to fall short of an ...
The ice is melting quicker than scientists previously thought - and they say it will likely lead to faster sea level rises, due to the continued, accelerating warming of the Earth's atmosphere
This weekend’s revelations that Theresa May is considering axeing the Human Rights Act after Brexit should come as no surprise. The party responsible for the Windrush scandal and other hostile immigration policies have been hamstrung by compassionate elements of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) for years. Proposals to ...
QuotedData’s economic roundup – January 2019 is a collation of recent insights on markets and economies taken from the comments made by chairmen and investment managers of investment companies – have a read and make your own minds up. Please remember that nothing in this note is designed to encourage you to ...
So much of the European Union referendum was about “taking back control”. Today, now fallacies around money for the NHS, economic freedom and immigration have been cast aside it is one of the few arguments Brexiteers have left in their armoury when defending their rationale for voting out. But if ...
Theresa May reiterated once again that she will “respect the result of the referendum” this week as she took questions from Jeremy Corbyn at PMQs. The Prime Minister reverted back to her default position amidst mounting pressure from politicians to hold a second referendum. According to the latest polls the ...
The campaign by activist collective Led By Donkeys is meant to highlight the predictions made by top politicians in the run up to Brexit.
The UK would vote to stay in the European Union by a huge 12 percentage points if it was given another vote, according to the latest poll. The results of the study show that 56 per cent would vote to stay in the EU and 44 per cent would vote ...
Caroline Lucas has said there is "no sign" the Prime Minister is willing to compromise following talks this morning. Theresa May is holding discussions with MPs after her Brexit withdrawal plan was voted down in the House of Commons on Tuesday. She has urged politicians to put self-interest aside and "work ...
Faith is a fickle thing in politics, but few of a sound mind could say they have confidence in this Government anymore. In the space of just a month the Conservatives have faced two confidence votes, been found in contempt of parliament for the first time ever and lost a ...