Boris Johnson has come under fire this week following his comments that women wearing burkas "look like letter boxes" and "bank robbers". The former Foreign Secretary launched the bizarre tirade in his Daily Telegraph column and has since refused to apologise for his "liberal" views. As Lord Pickles rightly pointed out shortly after, ...
Jeremy Hunt recently promoted to Foreign Secretary and in China a bid to establish new trade connections managed to get the nationality of his wife wrong in a botched bid to ingratiate himself with his hosts. Hunt, Britain’s top diplomat now managed to mix up regional rivals Japan and China, ...
A group of almost 40 MPs have come together to sign an open letter pleading for a second referendum over Brexit, reports the Daily Mirror. The MPs form a cross party alliance hoping that the nation is given another chance to decide if leaving the EU is the what they ...
The Conservatives have no way out of their own Brexit trap, Robert Shrimsley wrote in the Financial Times this week. Either they appease powerful party members crying betrayal over her attempts to shift negotiations into soft Brexit mode or she goes hard in spite of the well documented repercussions. It's ...
A Brexit activist fined £20,000 for breaching spending rules during the EU referendum campaign has raised funds to appeal the decision in just two hours. Darren Grimes, who insists he was "completely innocent" of making false declarations in relation to a £680,000 donation to his BeLeave youth group from the ...
When you start a new job it is not always the best idea to wind up your stakeholders with threats. However after his predecessor, Boris Johnson, thought that was a good idea, Jeremy Hunt has threatened the EU. On a trip to Berlin, his first trip abroad as Foreign Secretary, ...
BREAKING: Jeremy Corbyn gave Theresa May a grilling for the first time in PMQs about Vote Leave failing to co-operate with the Electoral Commission’s investigation into breaking electoral laws. He demanded the senior Conservatives in the Vote Leave campaign comply with the police investigation now that the Electoral Commission has ...
Vote Leave has been fined and referred to police after exceeding its spending limit by almost half a million pounds in the referendum. An investigation by the Electoral Commission found "significant evidence of joint working" between the group and another organisation - BeLeave - leading to it exceeding its spending limit by almost ...
In a classic episode of Yes, Minister the hapless minister Jim Hacker and adroit civil servant Sir Humphrey Appleby desperately try to stop a visiting African president from making a controversial speech in front of the Queen. The fictional country's leader successfully extorts money from the British government in exchange ...