In an unprecedented intervention, the National Audit Office (NAO) has accused a government minister of making false statements to MPs to downplay failings of a flagship Tory policy. There were calls for Esther McVey to resign after the Auditor General wrote in an open letter to complain that the Work ...
Today, on Clear Air Day, the Chelsea and Fulham MP Greg Hands who has always told his constituents he would oppose athird runway at Heathrow announced that he was forced to resign as Theresa May is insisting on bringing out the whips to get the majority she needs in a ...
Italy’s new populist Government has taken a tough stance on illegal immigration and has refused to allow a ship to dock in Italian waters, that currently holds over 600 migrants. It is thought on board there are 123 unaccompanied minors and seven pregnant women. The minors are aged between 13 ...
Theresa May was today asked about a 10-year-old orphan facing deportation. Glasgow North East MP Paul Sweeney called on the Prime Minster to guarantee asylum for a 10-year-old boy orphaned in Scotland. When he was a three-year-old toddler Giorgi Kakava and his widowed mum Sophie fled Georgia seven years ago ...
By Jan Cronje On Friday, 2nd February 1990, the South African president, FW de Klerk, stunned the world by announcing the official end of apartheid. Nelson Mandela was freed just days later, bringing renewed hope of peace, justice and diversity in a racially-divided country. Apartheid itself, the disgraceful form of ...
Q: When is it OK for Conservative councillors to post racist jokes about “brown” people being “lazy” “dogs”? A: When reinstating them helps Tories win a local council. LOL As certain disgruntled Labour Party figures join Conservatives and much of the media in portraying a Labour council victory (Labour up ...
Nigel Farage is calling for a new referendum on the abolition of the House of Lords after the Government suffered set-backs on the Brexit process. Writing in the Telegraph, Mr Farage blasted the Lords for its intervention and suggested the House had "signed its own death warrant". He said: "By ...
It was with a splash that the classic Tory power pose made a return to newspaper front pages this morning. Standing outside the Home Office Sajid Javid followed George Osborne, David Cameron and Theresa May in striking the awkward stance that is supposed to strike notes of confidence, determination and ...
Today we are demonstrating against the Home Office’s planned secretive mass charter flight deportations to Jamaica and Nigeria. A full amnesty to those who have been criminalised by racist immigration laws is the only way to right a historic wrong. By Karen Doyle, Movement for Justice This weekend we celebrated ...