Politics
With our heads turned, the chancellor just bunged a billion to the 1%
Britain is set for a prolonged period of low growth, high taxes and declining living standards, but let's all talk about small boats and Gary Lineker.
Labour will reverse Hunt’s ‘pensions bung for the 1%’ if it wins power
The chancellor's “gilded giveaway” is expected to cost £835 million a year but only benefit 10,000 people.
‘650,000 could lose support under welfare reforms’
A think tank has said reforms must be implemented slowly as there will be ‘significant winners but also losers’.
Sack Lineker and replace with a woman ‘at half the price’, says ex-BBC governor
Lord Young of Norwood Green said he did not believe the corporation should be paying Mr Lineker’s £1.35 million salary.
Jeremy Hunt’s ‘Brexit pubs guarantee’ gets a frothy reaction on social media
The chancellor said "British ale may be warm, but the duty on a pint is frozen", much to the irritation of people on social media.
Starmer says UK is sick man of Europe, as he rips apart Budget
The Labour leader criticised Chancellor Jeremy Hunt for ‘dressing up stagnation as stability’ in his financial statement to the Commons.
Stephen Flynn slams Rishi Sunak over private pool upgrade
“So may I ask him, was it while he was taking a leisurely dip that he decided to leave households drowning in their energy bills?”
300+ experts sign letter against ‘unworkable’ migrant Bill
The Government’s controversial asylum proposals laid out in the Illegal Migration Bill cleared their first Commons hurdle on Monday.
Lineker challenges ‘dangerously provocative’ comments made by Tory MP Jonathan Gullis
The Match Of The Day host described accusations that he called northern voters ‘racist bigots’ as ‘outrageous’.