These are the MPs who voted against protecting the country from what the ABI called “an unforgiveable act of self-harm.” Last night Theresa May’s government were cowed yet again when, in an unexpected upset, a slim majority of MPs, including Tories defying their own whip, voted 311 to 309 for ...
Jeremy Hunt is reportedly holding secret breakfast meetings with ministers to woo MPs to back him to replace Prime Minister Theresa May. A senior Tory figure has told The Sun that Hunt has been asking senior ministers what jobs they want in his Cabinet in exchange for their backing in secret morning ...
The Conservative Party is under fire after it was revealed that the party illegally accepted over £1 million in funds from Brits who are actually based in tax havens in the run up to the last election. The Political Parties and Elections Act of 2009 made donations of over £7,500 ...
James O'Brien said "we live in a country that is utterly upside down" after a spate of Tory Islamaphobia cases went largely unreported in the media. Fourteen members of the Conservative Party have been suspended this week over Islamophobic comments made on Facebook, and last night Baroness Warsi, the Conservative Party’s ...
"But the Queen has no such veto; She must sign her own death-warrant if the two Houses unanimously send it up to her." So Walter Bagehot wrote in 1867. It's doubtful whether today's MPs believe parliamentary supremacy encompasses regicide. But why not try it out? After all, a majority of ...
Lies... there have been loads of them. And not all on the side of a bus. Banning bendy bananas... renaming Bombay Mix to make the snack politically correct... rolling out a one-size-fits-all “euro condom” - a certain section of the British press have shamelessly misrepresented the EU to invent the kind ...
There are two things we have to recognise if we hope to understand Brexit. The first is something everyone should have known from the start. The second is a fact becoming clearer by the day. Both are bad for the United Kingdom. First, the UK was always going to be ...
An hour before Theresa May told the House of Commons to vote for the government to reopen negotiations, Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker had been in contact to convey that it would be fruitless for her to come to Brussels on the basis of an attempt to reopen the Withdrawal Agreement. Indeed, ...
Sir James Dyson, Mike Ashley and the Coates family enjoyed momentary respite yesterday after appearing in the top 50 taxpayers list. Following a few turbulent weeks in which prominent Brexiteer Dyson shafted Britain by moving his company's headquarters to Singapore and Sports Direct owner Ashley shafted the city of Newcastle by ...