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The businessman, who had cancer which he had kept private, died in the early hours of Thursday morning

With Theresa May looking more vulnerable than ever, she cut a sorry figure at Prime Minister’s Questions today. “Just like our shambolic privatised railways, this government’s incompetence threatens our economy, businesses, jobs and our communities,” said the Labour Leader, referencing the Northern Rail franchise shambles. “So, my question to the ...

The Labour Party features once again on the front page of the Evening Standard today for all the wrong reasons as George Osborne uses divisions over Brexit policy to put the boot in. Shadow Brexit Secretary Sir Keir Starmer is reported as saying the party is split down the middle ...

The UK has nine out of the ten poorest regions in northern Europe, with suggestions that the rapid industrial decline brought about under Margaret Thatcher is chiefly responsible for creating pockets of poverty in one of the World's richest economies. West Wales, Durham and Tees Valley, South Yorkshire and Northern Ireland ...

The number of Brits saying the vote to leave the EU was the wrong decision has reached a new high, according to the latest data. In the same week that prominent Leave campaigner Nigel Farage claimed he never “promised that Brexit would be a huge success” confidence from the British public ...

Jeremy Hunt became Britain's longest-serving custodian of the NHS this weeki having surpassed Margaret Thatcher's Health Minister, Norman Fowler, and Aneurin Bevan, the man who set up the health service in the first place. With waiting times getting increasingly worse, doctors and nurses fleeing in their droves, care standards falling dramatically and ...

On 7 June, the UK Supreme Court will issue a ruling on Northern Ireland's restrictive abortion laws. The Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission (NIHRC) has argued that the law criminalises 'exceptionally vulnerable women.' Abortion is illegal in Northern Ireland except where the woman's life is at risk or there is ...

Activate, the Conservative's imitation of Momentum, has folded after just eight months. The political movement was set up to engage young people in centre-right politics but has struggled to make any headway since it was launched in August last year. High membership fees, homophobic WhatsApp conversations and lavish meetings are highlight's ...

If you’ve been anywhere near Battersea Power Station in the last twelve months, you’ll have noticed that its iconic towers have become a hive of activity, lined with cranes and construction vehicles as redevelopment gets underway in earnest. It’s been an insurmountable project for countless investors over the last fifty ...