The government has just published its White Paper setting out its Brexit plans. The document sets out the government’s 12 principles including migration control and "taking control of our own laws". Brexit Secretary David Davis said the UK's "best days are still to come", outside the EU. However one union has reacted ...
After the shock of Donald Trump's election last November, many people took comfort from his acceptance speech and his speech after meeting Obama at the White House. After his incendiary campaign, there was hope that his craving for public approval would mean that he would govern more like a conventional ...
There’s plenty of drama in Michael McLean’s Years of Sunlight about friendship and the exodus of Liverpudlians living in 1960s slums to new purpose built town Skelmersdale, but Mark Rice-Oxley’s Paul, best friend of parent-less Emlyn, is directed by Amelia Sears to stand as still as one of Anthony Gormley’s ...
Boris Johnson’s response to Trump’s Muslim ban ‘inadequate and insulting’, says Britain's General Union. The foreign secretary has addressed the Commons following Donald Trump's controversial immigration crackdown, which prohibits refugees and citizens from countries including Syria, Iran and Iraq from visiting the US. He told the house British citizens were ...
This week Starbucks hit back at Donald Trump's travel ban with a promise to hire 10,000 refugees globally over the next five years. The warm gesture will provide a much-needed PR boost for the often beleaguered coffee house chain, but sentiment has little to do with it, the truth is that it makes good ...
As a petition to cancel Donald Trump’s state visit reached over 1,200,000 the London Mayor Sadiq Khan has stood by the protestors. Around 250,000 Londoners have signed this petition. Donald Trump has come under fire for various executive orders since he became president, but banning refuges from seven mainly Muslim ...
As an island just off the coast of mainland Europe it is hardly surprising that UK trade with the EU is huge and access the single market encourages this level of commerce. Now the UK is about to invoke article 50 and leave the EU, a thinktank has investigated the ...
Looking for a job might become harder than ever for the UK population as the Government looks to close a large number of its Jobcentres across Britain. There may well be thousands of job losses and those, faxing the axe, might well not have a job centre to start their ...
Microsoft founder Bill Gates is on coarse to becoming the world's first trillionaire and could hit the milestone within the next 25 years, a new report has found. The study has predicted Gates’ future wealth using the average rate of growth of his investments, which have been growing by 11 per ...