The Brexit vote has been likened to "turkeys voting for Christmas" after it was revealed the hardest hit areas were the ones most likely to vote for it. A leaked government study detailing economic forecasts of how regions will fare over the next 15 years revealed most regions will be ...
Every region of the UK is set to become poorer whichever Brexit scenario occurs according to the Government’s own figures it has emerged. As the Government finally caved into MP’s demands to see the official impact assessment report kept hidden from the public but leaked to Buzzfeed last week, it ...
The seven bosses of doomed company, Carillion, were given a grilling by MPs yesterday and it was an uncomfortable day for them all. They all faced a joint inquiry by the work and pensions and business select committees. Some of them accepted they had failed and others blamed anything but their ...
The political motives for an exit from the single market were laid bare today after it was revealed that a prominent Brexiteer is also a major shareholder of an emerging markets investment firm. Jacob Rees-Mogg is a long-term backer of investment management firm Somerset Capital, which has "9.6 billion dollars" ...
Big change is needed, change that is backed up by law and proper penalties for breaking those laws, says union. GMB, Britain’s general union, has branded the Government’s response to the Taylor Review as ‘trying to put out a forest fire with a water pistol.’ The long-awaited review to Matthew ...
A partially-sighted man with a fear of dogs is to be given Britain's first ever 'guide horse'. Mohammed Patel, 23, was this week introduced to Digby - an American Miniature horse - which will be trained to help him get around. The two-foot-high horse has been chosen to assist Mohammed ...
Labour will take no lessons from Donald Trump who wants to deny healthcare to millions in America with a system that checks your purse before it checks your pulse, Shadow Health Secretary Jonathan Ashworth said today. In a speech to parliament the Labour MP referenced protests this weekend that saw thousands ...
By Robert Seiler One of the first concrete signs of Brexit’s approach came late last year when two EU agencies, currently located in London, were sent off to new pastures on the European mainland. In November, an EU-wide vote saw the European Medicines Agency (EMA) relocate to Amsterdam and the European Banking Authority ...
Brits are eschewing trips to the sun beds out of a fear they might end up looking like Donald Trump. A new poll has revealed 73 per cent of UK adults who have previously used, or considered using, a UV tanning bed would never do so again thanks to the ...