Politics

Theresa May is expected to survive a vote of confidence this evening. The challenge to Mrs May's position comes after the required 48 letters calling for a contest were delivered and she’s 3/1 to lose the vote she is 1/5 to get through the vote. She requires 158 Tory MPs to stick with her. She could come up short with 101 to 150 votes – the favourite at 6/5, with 50 to 100 next in the betting at 15/8, while...

One of Britain’s leading barristers has claimed he has evidence of BBC bias against Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn. Jolyon Maugham QC, director of the Good Law Project, took to social media to post the alleged evidence of bias against Corbyn. He said a senior BBC journalist has told him that the BBC has indulged in showing "coded negative imagery" of Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn since his election in 2015. He is making the messages between himself and a senior BBC journalist public...

Sterling fell to a new 20-month low against the Dollar on Tuesday and it looks like the on-going turmoil is not going to steady the currency for the foreseeable future. Compared to the Euro it was at a three and a half month low. Now with the PM facing a vote of no confidence, the stormy financial weather looks set to continue. Commenting on Sterling’s performance in the wake of the no-confidence announcement, Andy Scott, Associate Director at JCRA, the...

The u-turn on suspending the 'Golden Visa' scheme feels as if it was snuck in as the Brexit situation became febrile yesterday. Only last week the Government said it would halt the scheme as a sweeping crackdown on financial crime. The UK’s anti-corruption policy was under scrutiny on Tuesday after the government failed to implement a promise to suspend a widely criticised “golden visa” scheme. The Home Office announced that the UK’s Tier 1 Investor programme, whereby UK visas are...

The PM is touring EU capitals to keep her deal alive

A cunning analogy comparing Brexit to a cheese submarine is going viral on social media. The Twitter thread, created by funnyman Hugo Rifkind, describes how the best way to understand Theresa May’s predicament is to imagine that 52 percent of Britain had voted that the government should build a submarine out of cheese. Although Theresa May was initially against the idea, because it is a "a completely insane thing to do", she had to build the sub because "cheese means cheese". So she...

Chairman of the 1922 backbench committee Sir Graham Brady says the threshold of 48 letters of no confidence in Theresa May's leadership of the Conservative Party has been reached triggering a ballot which will take place tonight between 6pm and 8pm. If theresa May loses the vote, a leadership contest will begin, which Number 10 say will take six weeks.  If Theresa May wins tonight she is safe as leader of the Tory Party for another 12 months. This morning...

Hollywood star Pamela Anderson has said she could have negotiated better conditions than Theresa May’s “dumb deal” in a scathing blog that also saw her confess a crush for Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn. The former Baywatch actress took aim at Brexit in the piece making the point that although people in the UK voted to leave the EU, nobody knew at the time what this would actually look like. She also said the Leave camp and its leaders “lied through...

‘The Labour leader believes the PM has demeaned her office after delaying a vote on her Brexit deal. May has spent the day stampeding around Europe trying to get concessions in her deal, hoping it would ensure it gets through Parliament. Opening an emergency Commons debate Corbyn told MPs that May should immediately put the plan before parliament. Corbyn said: “Yesterday the prime minister demeaned her office by unilaterally taking her discredited deal off the table and running away rather...