By Bea Patel, TLE Property Editor and Director of Shop for an Agent The 2016 London Mayoral election will take place tomorrow (5 May). With Boris Johnson choosing not to run, Labour candidate Sadiq Khan and Conservative representative Zac Goldsmith battle it out as the two front runners. So what ...
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor On Monday night MPs voted by 294 votes to 276 to reject a plan for Britain to accept 3,000 unaccompanied Syrian child refugees have ended up in mainland Europe without a parent or guardian. The amendment had been proposed by Labour’s Lord Dubs, who himself arrived ...
I've been to many university debates and spoken in more than a few. I've heard one man compare gay marriage to Nazism, a 19-year-old claim he was a 'survivor' of abortion and an Israeli student joke about killing more Palestinians. Sometimes outrageous or offensive statements cause shock, more often delayed ...
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor The split between pro and anti-EU Tory MPs widened even further yesterday, after the Treasury claimed that a Brexit would lower GDP by 6.2 per cent by 2030, due to reduced investment from the EU and higher trade barriers. Here are 6 MPs who didn’t ...
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor George Osborne laid into Boris Johnson during BBC Radio 4’s Today programme. He called his Tory rivals “dishonest” and “economically illiterate,” over their Leave campaign. He said: “What's not honest and what's economically illiterate is to say we can have all the economic benefits of ...
The official Leave and Remain camps for the EU referendum have been named as Vote Leave and Britain Stronger in Europe. Vote Leave saw off challenges from Grassroots Out, backed by UKIP leader Nigel Farage. The decision will come as a kick in the teeth for the UK Independence Party, which ...
Sport News 24/7 By David de Winter - Sports Editor @davidjdewinter @TLE_Sport Ok, so it wasn’t quite the fairy-tale ending England fans were hoping for as Carlos Brathwaite clubbed Ben Stokes for four consecutive sixes off the last over to win the T20 World Cup for the West Indies for ...
Private Members Club. Three words often translated as: inaccessible, aloof and affected. Add ‘in London’ and it’s as good as an outstretched hand held vertically in front of your face. So, when I was invited for lunch at Blacks - a PMC in Soho, no less - my first thought was ...
By Abeer Sharma You would be forgiven for hoping that the upcoming referendum on the United Kingdom’s membership of the European Union- the first since 1975- would present a ripe prospect to have a sensible, mature and enlightening debate about how we intend to steer the future direction of our country. ...