Politics

Senior Tories have called for action to prevent party members voting multiple times in the election to choose the next prime minister after some were issued with more than one ballot paper. Members will vote to choose either Boris Johnson or Jeremy Hunt to become the next Conservative leader in a postal ballot, but the BBC, citing a party source, said more than 1,000 people could have received multiple forms in the contest. It added those affected could include people...

“schools just cannot cope anymore”

Treasury officials and lawyers are so overstretched they have splashed out £3 million hiring law firm Hogan Lovells to help with Brexit preparations, new documents show. The firm will spend a year working with the Treasury, to help navigate the “marked and continuing” increase in its legal work over Brexit and help in “establishing an effective and efficient customs regime”. The one-year contract was quietly signed in April with Chancellor Philip Hammond’s department and was uncovered by UK government contracts data provider...

Jeremy Corbyn has used the 25th anniversary of Amazon’s launch to accuse the company of not paying its fair share of taxes. The Labour leader has written a card to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos claiming the global giant owes millions in taxes. https://twitter.com/redsarah99/status/1147047773738590208 The card read: “Dear Jeff. Happy Birthday. You owe the British people millions in taxes that pay for the public services that we all rely on. This year, pay your fair share of taxes, give your hard-working staff...

At the last General Election young voters came out in swathes in support of Jeremy Corbyn.

Air travel did not occur in the US until early in the 1900s, when the Wright brothers - whom Trump praised earlier in his speech - flew the world’s first plane in 1903.

“It is disgusting that Ann Widdecombe would reference slavery and colonisation to describe our relationship with the EU. Her and Farage are bankrolled by elites – she’s part of the establishment which has created such a divide in this country.”

A new poll puts Jeremy Corbyn’s party in fourth place with just 18 per cent of the vote.

"A confidential cabinet note apparently says that the government is not prepared for no deal and NHS Trusts have warned it will pose a major risk to NHS services... Make UK, representing British manufacturers recently said there is a direct link between politicans talking up the prospect of no-deal and British firms losing customers overseas and people losing their jobs”.