Politics
House of Lords committee pours scorn on government for failing to allocate EU funding to help most deprived
The Lords committee said the government has “wasted an opportunity” to help the most disadvantaged in the UK after €3.96 million of EU funding was squandered.
MP at centre of social media storm blames behaviour on Jeremy Corbyn
Sheffield Hallam MP Jared O’Mara was branded a "selfish, degenerate p***k" in extraordinary tweets sent from his account by his chief of staff, Gareth Arnold.
Johnson’s Brexit deadline ‘not bright’, says Good Friday Agreement architect
Bertie Ahern urged the UK’s new Prime Minister against seeking simplistic solutions.
Boris branded the “last Prime Minister of the UK” by SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon
The Prime Minister was elected by 0.13% of the population, he has no mandate from Scotland, Ian Blackford said.
Two-thirds of Boris Johnson’s Cabinet were privately educated, Sutton Trust research reveals
The social mobility charity said the new Prime Minister’s Cabinet highlights how unevenly spread opportunities are to “enter the elites”.
Ministers should fund a national inquiry to look into remaining sexual assault allegations against former PM Sir Edward Heath, a police commissioner says
His comment followed the conviction of Carl Beech, the serial accuser turned Accused
How Theresa May sowed the seeds of her own and her party’s destruction
Theresa May leaves Downing Street as one of the shortest-serving prime ministers for more than 100 years, having created an anti-iimigrant hostile environment as Home Secretary that poisoned her country, her party, and her political career.
Chancellor Philip Hammond resigns ahead of Boris Johnson entering Number 10
Hammond has been consistently sounding warnings about the economic danger of Johnson pursuing a no-deal Brexit.
Campaigners project image of Boris Johnson waving kipper onto Buckingham Palace
The image was accompanied by the words: ‘Your Majesty, your new prime minister is a liar’.