John Bercow is just 6/4 to step down as Speaker of the House of Commons this year and now priced at 16/1 to follow Ed Balls’ lead and switch politics for pirouettes by signing up for Strictly Come Dancing. Under fire for comments condemned as “completely unacceptable” by government ministers, ...
Calls for House of Lords reform have resurfaced this week after the government suffered another Brexit set back in the upper house. The Daily Mail, which staunchly backed Britain's exit from the European Union, said it is "time to pull the plug on the Lords" on its front page and ...
Radio 4 listeners today (Fri) branded ex-British ambassador to the US Sir Christopher Meyer a "posh bore" after he appeared to call presenter Mishal Husain STUPID live on air. The pair were discussing plans for President Donald Trump’s visit to the UK in July on the Today programme when Sir ...
By Ben Bird Tech giants Google and Facebook have come under fire recently for providing a platform giving users of their social channels access to large volumes of news content, whilst doing nothing to support its origination. But should they be made to pay, or should advertisers be doing more to ...
The government has admitted that some people from the Windrush generation have been deported in error. Great Britain asked for people from Caribbean countries, in the 50s and 60s, to plug a gap in the workforce. They entered the UK in the first wave of Commonwealth immigration 70 years ago. ...
The Sun has issued a retraction of an article it published at the end of February which listed potential savings British shoppers would see on goods once European Union tariffs are removed after Brexit. The "Vote for bargans" was even cited by Jacob Rees-Mogg who claimed it showed the "huge savings for ...
A whistleblower has come forward to claim that the campaign to leave the EU, during the Brexit vote, was illegal. Shahmir Sanni who for worked for BeLeave, accused Vote Leave of bypassing spending limits, by funnelling cash into the BeLeave campaign, as a way to get around the Electoral Commission’s ...
This is a full list of MPs who voted to remove the guarantee of a hot meal from the bellies of a million children from lower income families in England. Theresa May is ploughing ahead with changes to free school meals, childcare vouchers and free childcare as part of the ...
@BenGelblum The House of Commons Exiting the European Union Committee has published the Whitehall Brexit impact analyses that the Government did not want you to see. Brexit Minister David Davis fought tooth and nail to keep the assessments of the possible impacts of Brexit on the economy confidential, insisting they ...