Following a week when the Conservatives were publicly outed for institutional racism and systematic poverty peddling the cartoon doing the rounds on social media depicted crowds of people gawping at the royal family's latest arrival as a homeless baby goes unnoticed on the street. With the political arena reaching fever ...
Why can’t Remainers just accept ‘they lost’, that it was a ‘democratic vote’, and just get on with their lives? Why can’t they just get with the programme? I’ll tell you. I'd consider myself a kind person. I've had some highs in my life, but it's definitely slapped me about ...
A shattered new mum was forced to sit in a hard chair for five hours immediately after giving birth - following 96 hours of no sleep. Saralee Jack, 31, spent four days wide awake struggling with contraction pains before giving birth to little Tommy Davies on 13 January. During the ...
Theresa May has today backed down on election pledges to hold a vote on the fox-hunting ban in this parliament. The news will be welcomed by the majority of the population. Recent polling had suggested opposition to hunting in the UK was at an all-time high of 85 per cent, and ...
Out with the old and in with the new. That's Jeremy Corbyn's new year message to the country as he embarks on what is undoubtedly going to be a pivotal year in British politics. The Labour leader said the party would stake out the "new centre ground in British politics", ...
After the chair of one of the country’s top NHS trusts resigned in protest against government NHS cuts making his and other hospital's job impossible, the shadow health secretary made an emergency statement to the House of Commons today. "Lord Kerslake said our NHS faces the tightest spending figures in ...
Theresa May's husband has become embroiled in the Paradise Papers tax haven scandal with the revelation of emails between his company and Appleby, the offshore law firm at the heart of the tax avoidance leaks. Private Eye have seen correspondence between Capital Group where Philip May works and Appleby, whose ...
Parliament today heard the full horror of the Tories’ flagship policy that has left many families looking at the prospect of going hungry for weeks as Christmas approaches. The roll out of Ian Duncan Smith’s brainchild - the Universal Credit welfare overhaul has been criticised by MP’s from all quarters, ...
Helen Goodman made a heartfelt plea for families on Universal Credit this festive period, saying it's not so much a merry Christmas as a Victorian Christmas that even Scrooge didn't think of. Almost a quarter of her constituents in Bishop Auckland will be affected by the changes in December which will leave ...