Politics

As Ukip decide on a new leader for the party - with Nigel Farage threatening to launch a new pro-Brexit party if Anne-Marie Waters wins and takes the party off on a rabid anti-Islam direction - news of a new logo for the party with no MP's has been met with much derision today. People immediately spotted a striking similarity with the Football Premier League logo after the Brexiteers dropped the pound sign from their logo and replaced it with...

Alastair Campbell has today acceded that Jeremy Corbyn is “now completely in charge” of the Labour Party, citing the leader’s conference grip on conference proceedings this week as evidence that Corbyn now reigns supreme. The former New Labour spin doctor called for Corbyn to resign before the 2017 General Election, saying: "What we know having seen Jeremy Corbyn in a position of leadership for some time, he cannot do the job, and if he is a decent man he should do the...

Labour jumped from fourth to first in Halton-with-Aughton and from third to first in Thetford Priory in a huge night of council by-elections.  The party won Halton-with-Aughton (Lancaster) for the first time ever with a gain of +18.0. They edged out the Green Party and the Conservatives who picked up 27.2 per cent and 26.2 per cent of the vote respectively. Huge ground was also made up in Norfolk where the party took Thetford Priory from the Conservatives with a swing of +28.0. The...

By Benjamin Jenkins The co-founder of the Leave.eu campaign Richard Tice just delivered a shocking vote of no confidence in Prime Minister Theresa May on BBC Question Time. Watch the stunned look on the face of Karen Bradley, the Secretary of State for Culture and Media as the property entrepreneur and prominent Brexiteer delivered his damning verdict. Question Time host David Dimbleby asked the Brexit campaign chief: “do you think Theresa May is going to finish her full term and would...

In a performance that even critics would regard as confident and signalling Jeremy Corbyn is as he said today ready to be "on the threshold of power", the leader of the Labour Party ended an interesting Brighton Conference on a high note with a speech taht brought the house down. To a rapturous reception, the leader of the Labour Party declared: “we are now the political mainstream!” And he warned Theresa May that the Labour Party are more prepared than ever...

This is Jeremy Corbyn MP's speech to the Labour Party Conference in Brighton in full. To a rapturous reception, the leader of the Labour Party declared: “we are now the political mainstream!” And he warned Theresa May that the Labour Party are more prepared than ever to fight another general election. The Labour leader sounded assured and made his pitch to convince the nation that he and his cabinet are ready for government. And he met criticisms that the conference had shied...

Jeremy Corbyn has called out his media critics over the election coverage, joking "never have so many trees died in vain". Corbyn condemned The Daily Mail for devoting 14 pages to attacking his party and challenged the editor, Paul Dacre, to double the coverage over him for the next general election, in the hope that would push Labour to an election victory. During his speech to the Labour conference, Corbyn accused the right-wing media of colluding in a “nasty and...

Jeremy Corbyn today inadvertently received the rock star reception Theresa May aimed for in 2016 when she delivered the closing speech at the Conservative Party Conference. The Labour leader came out to the now famed rendition of Seven Nation Army by the White Stripes, despite there been no music in the background. It makes a stark difference to May's reception when she got a tame response with Elvis Costello & The Attractions blaring out of the stereos. Even the shadow...

British pensioners are now more financially secure than they ever have been, following the post-election deal between the DUP and Conservative Party, guaranteeing the triple lock pension and winter fuel allowance. More significant is the older generation’s ‘wealth mountain’—the property assets owned by those higher up the housing ladder. Unfortunately for their descendants, it is estimated that just 4 million of the 17 million Brits between the ages of 25 and 44 are set to benefit when their families pass...