Politics

I don't know how the Government have the cheek to say austerity is over then deliver this budget with a straight face says GMB Union Chancellor Philip Hammond’s budget has been ‘more trick than treat’ after Amazon were given a free pass until 2020 at least and school children were handed a pittance. The Chancellor announced a new digital services tax which gives the likes of Amazon a free pass until at least 2020. Meanwhile the UK’s desperately under-funded education system was...

Philip Hammond’s budget, which was billed as marking an end to austerity, will actually benefit rich families 14 times more than the poor, new analysis has revealed. The Resolution Foundation crunched the numbers on the latest budget finding almost half of the income tax are set to go to the top ten per cent of households. Households in the top cohort will gain £410 from income tax and benefits changes announced yesterday, whereas those in the poorest ten per cent...

Hammond’s Brexit 50p will be worth less than yesterday’s 50p. - As Hammond delivered his budget statement the pound fell again on world markets, 0.2% on the dollar.

Today the Danske Bank whistleblower, Mr. Howard Wilkinson, was informed by Danske Bank that the secrecy agreement the Bank required him to sign in 2014 has been partially waived.  Mr. Wilkinson has been granted permission to testify before the European and Danish Parliaments, and to provide information to the U.S. Department of Justice, and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission concerning the money $230 billion money laundering scheme for which Danske Bank participated in. Stephen M Kohn from Kohn, Kohn...

Controversial rapper, and friend of Donald Trump, Kayne West has helped to design a range of clothing to persuade black Americans to turn away from the Democratic Party. The range is to support YouTube star and TV pundit Candace Owens' Blexit campaign, which has been referred to “a frequency for those who have released themselves from the political orthodoxy”. Owens told Page Six: “Blexit is a renaissance and I am blessed to say that this logo, these colours, were created by...

CDU secretary general odds-on to succeed German chancellor Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer  4/6 favourite to take over from Angela Merkel as CDU leader. The German Chancellor announced that she will be giving up her role as the party’s leader and the CDU will start looking for a replacement at the party conference in Hamburg this December, which has seen Kramp-Karrenbauer shoot to the top of the betting to get the job. Former head of the CDU/CSU bloc in the Bundestag parliament, Friedrich...

Katie Hopkins has been reported for racial hatred after she blamed the chief rabbi for the horrendous synagogue attacks in Pittsburgh. The far-right political personality, who is currently working for Canadian media website The Rebel Media, said rabbi David Lau's "support for mass migration across the Med" is to blame for the shooting which left 11 people dead. In a tweet she wrote: "Watching the pin-the-blame on the donkey after Pittsburgh Synagogue. Gab. Trump. White Supremcists. The Media. Muslims. Look to...

The Labour Party have mocked the Tories with a hilarious parody video just hours ahead of Philip Hammond's budget speech. Chancellor Hammond is expected to bring an end to austerity when he reveals the budget today, although the pledge will depend on whether Theresa May can negotiate a deal with Brussels. A no deal may prolong austerity, Hammond has said, which will come as a blow to millions who have suffered from government cut-backs over the last decade of Tory...

The Sunday Times dropped a poll on the People's Vote to an inside page after the result didn't go the way they hoped. A survey of 12,939 readers revealed 70 per cent want a second referendum on EU membership. Rupert Murdoch, who owns the newspaper, was an ardent supporter of Brexit, a viewpoint which has been widely reflected in the media publications he runs. In the run-up to the referendum Anthony Hilton wrote in the Evening Standard that: "I once...