In a long awaited statement on her final throw of the dice, Theresa May as expected announced one more vote to pass her Brexit deal - but in an attempt to lure MPs across the bench, and across the Brexit debate, she offered concessions including a vote on a confirmatory ...
Change UK may not exist as a party in its current form by the time of the next general election, interim leader Heidi Allen has just admitted. Quizzed on BBC Radio 4 Today’s programme after weekend rumours that she might defect to the Liberal Democrats, Allen revealed “the format might ...
As the latest poll shows Labour widening the gap in voting intention to 9 Points Ahead of Conservatives, a senior Conservative has suggested that his party make an electoral pact with the Brexit Party. In the European elections this month Nigel Farage’s new party despite being only a few weeks ...
A huge number of MPs have had their credit cards stopped since the 2015 general election. An FOI request, by the Telegraph found that 377 MPs have been penalised for credit card infringements. Boris Johnson, Jeremy Corbyn and Ian Paisley are among the MPs to be penalised since 2015 for ...
As a lifelong Doncaster Rovers fan who has collected more wooden spoons than I’ve eaten hot meals I have become well accustomed to losing over the years. I voted for Ed Miliband when he lost the general election in 2010 and for Jeremy Corbyn when he lost out in 2015 ...
The ‘train tinny’ has been hailed a British institution in defence of Diane Abbott after the shadow Home Secretary was photographed drinking an M&S mojito on a London Overground train. Abbott apologised after pictures emerged of her drinking on a TFL train yesterday afternoon. Boris Johnson banned alcohol on London ...
Chris Hobbs is a retired Met police officer who worked extensively at border controls in both the UK and Jamaica. If control of our borders and a curb on immigration into the UK was the tipping point in deciding the result of referendum, those who cast their vote on that ...
Brexit is coming…eventually. With the exit date delayed until October and a bevy of deplorables running in May’s European elections, is it any wonder that millions are tuning in to Game of Thrones for a little escapism? Or at least, that’s what many worthy commentators would like us to believe. ...
Stonehenge is more British than fish and chips, Cornish pasties and queuing in military fashion. However, science has (once again) proved otherwise. Researchers have found that DNA tests carried out on the workers who built the structure were in fact from Turkey (or what is now Turkey). So the builders ...