The term 2018-22 will be one of the toughest the Conservatives have faced in Wandsworth, Councillor Ian Lewer says. Following a shock win the Deputy Mayor for the borough predicts that the next four years are likely to be some of the most challenging that the party has faced in its ...
The President chose cheers over tears by stepping into the warm embrace of the NRA rather than tackling gun crime - a decision he should be made to rue Donald Trump’s address to the National Rifle Association convention on Friday was a thoughtless move from a President who has routinely failed to ...
It has been a disastrous night for UKIP, which has lurched to the extremes of crude anti-Muslim rhetoric under Gerard Batten, its fourth leader since Nigel Farage. Winning just two seats in the council elections across England yesterday, the party has lost 92 councillors so far. Other far-right parties – ...
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 ...
A shift towards Liberal and Labour votes could leave the Conservatives facing an election wipe-out in the local elections today. According to political traders the Liberal Democrats could seize key seats in the poll, including a stronghold in Richmond. Labour currently hold control over 20 out of 32 boroughs in the capital, ...
Comments by Lord Roberts that likened Theresa May's approach to Brexit to the Nazi takeover of Germany in 1933 have been met with disdain by several of his counterparts in the House of Lords, but the Llandudno peer is well within his rights to flag historical warning signs as we enter a perilous ...
Sainsbury's has confirmed plans to merge with Asda, which is currently owned by US supermarket giant Walmart. The supermarkets said that grocery prices would fall in both chains as a result of the merger. The ASDA head offices in Leeds West Yorks., as the Wal-Mart company announces a merger deal ...
Last night Amber Rudd defied belief and appeared to still hold onto her role as Home Secretary as revelations emerged that she again appeared to have misled MPs, breaching Ministerial Code twice in one week. Political commentators and opposition MPs expressed dismay as despite expectations that she would resign by ...
Polling shows the public expect a recession within the next 2 years GMB, Britain’s general union, has called on the Government to 'get it's act together' as ONS figures released this morning showed GDP struggling at just 0.1% growth in the first quarter of 2018. Recent polling by Survation on ...