Despite political pollsters and bookmakers predicting Nigel Farage's Brexit Party a shoe-in to win its first MP in Peterborough, a surge of Labour door-knocking and activism helped the party retain the seat. The election of a new MP came about after local people effectively sacked their former Member of Parliament, ...
As voters head to the polls in the Peterborough by-election, Nigel Farage's Brexit Party may well gain its first seat in Westminster today. But the new party campaigning hard for its first MP candidate Mike Greene has lost yet another senior figure to a fresh race hate scandal. A campaign ...
The Labour Party is making up ground in the Peterborough by-election with odds on Lisa Forbes to win plummeting from 7/1 to 5/1 today. Fifteen candidates are facing voters at the ballot box on Thursday in a contest that will have wide political ramifications. The election of a new MP ...
At the end of March 2019, the UK was scheduled to leave the European Union. Many small and medium sized businesses (SMEs) spent time, resources and money in stockpiling goods for the threatened ‘no deal’ scenario that seemed realistic up until the final date. As the date was extended and ...
MEP Nigel Farage, whose Brexit Party now has 29 MEPs and is in talks to join the far-right bloc in the European Parliament, may be suspended from his lucrative (£90,000 a year) job as an MEP. The European Parliament has issued Farage with a summons to a hearing on Wednesday ...
Donald Trump has confirmed that the NHS will be on the table in a post-Brexit trade deal. Speaking at a press conference today the US President said: "When you're dealing in trade everything is on the table. So NHS or anything else, a lot more than that, but everything will ...
Activity across UK building firms fell last month, driven by a sharp decline in commercial construction and civil engineering, according to data firm Markit. Commercial building was the weakest sector, with output falling to the greatest extent since September 2017. Survey respondents said that clients had opted to hold back ...
Cressida Dick has said the police will face a “very steep mountain” under a no deal Brexit. Speaking at the annual Fortune Most Powerful Women International Summit today in London the Met Police Commissioner said “there will be an awful lot of work to do to replicate the current systems” ...
Daniel Hannan has been lauded for prophesying an eventuality in which every Conservative MP loses their seat, a Lib-Lab government cancels Brexit and the House of Lords is scrapped. The prominent Leave campaigner and Conservative MEP tweeted his “horrible” vision of the future after the latest polls gave the Brexit ...