British MPs are sitting on a property empire worth over £100 million while £500,000-worth of pay outs have been recorded from the BBC and Rupert Murdoch and nearly a quarter were revealed to employ their partner as secretaries. In an exclusive investigation by freelance journalist Chris White, 650 Members of ...
Forget U-turns, most people think Britain's top politicians are telling porky pies in their manifesto pledges, and they have revealed the politicians they think have their pants on fire. With the General Election a week away trust in political parties seems to have dropped to an all-time low, with 71 per cent ...
By The Retired Raver The eagerly anticipated leaders election debate took place tonight in Cambridge with the conspicuous and much mentioned absence of the Prime Minister Theresa May. The seven politicians including the last minute entrance of Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, took their places onstage and lined up to challenge Conservative stand in Amber Rudd ...
Just over a week before the snap election that Theresa May called buoyed by a massive lead in the polls, YouGov's first seat by seat projection of the campaign suggests that the Tories will now fall 16 seats short of an overall majority. This would be a shocking result - especially ...
The Conservative candidate for the former seat of murdered Jo Cox joked yesterday that the campaign is going well as ‘we have not yet shot anybody’. Dr Ann Myatt, running for election in Batley and Spen, has apologised after making the comment during a hustings debate held for constituents before the ...
As London’s housing market cools off, the ways in which the capital’s homeowners are choosing to sell their properties is also shifting. According to Rightmove, the average asking price of a home in the capital is now £649,864, an all-time high, despite general election and Brexit jitters. Not only that, ...
Land Securities NAV slips as markets pause for breath For the year ended 31 March 2017, Land Securities NAV slipped as it said that its markets are pausing for breath. The chairman says that “In the London office market, we expected the occupational balance to shift from demand to supply during ...
I have a pen-pal in the Shadow Cabinet, a bond having been forged during the upheavals of the PLP's failed rising against Jeremy Corbyn. Ever since, on a irregular basis I have shared observations drawn from the experience of years spent fighting elections as a Liberal Party apparatchik in Canada. ...
They haven’t been too accurate in recent times, but if the latest polls are to be believed, Jeremy Corbyn’s ratings are on the up. Growing significantly day by day. For a politician that is routinely ridiculed in the mainstream press, it seemed almost unconceivable three weeks ago that the UK would ...