Two Labour big hitters made separate TV appearances today and they didn't hold back with their comments on the current political turmoil in the UK. Tom Watson, deputy leader, went on The Andrew Marr Show and told the presenter that it would be“inconceivable” if a Labour manifesto for a snap ...
European elections are a near certainty after MPs rejected Theresa May's deal with the EU by 344 votes to 285. A 58-strong majority defeated the government on the day the UK was due to leave the EU. It means the UK has missed an EU deadline to delay Brexit to ...
The Guardian has defended its decision not to publish a letter signed by 205 Jewish women. (See full letter published below.) The letter responded to a Guardian article on March 9: “Just Close Them Down: Margaret Hodge on anti-semitism in Labour’s branches.” Labour MP for Barking Margaret Hodge has been ...
Another day another humiliation for Theresa May, this time from the Dutch PM. The Dutch PM, Mark Rutte, compared the struggling British PM to the knight from comedy classic film, Monty Phyton and the Holy Grail. The hapless knight is attacked and bits of him are sliced off, but continues ...
He said: "My sympathy and solidarity today with people in New Zealand and Muslims all over the world.”
The House of Commons will be given the first opportunity to vote for a second referendum today. The speaker, John Bercow, selected an amemndment from Sarah Wollaston, who recently left the Tories to join the Independent group. This was not, as you would expect, met with universal approval. The speaker ...
James O'Brien said "we live in a country that is utterly upside down" after a spate of Tory Islamaphobia cases went largely unreported in the media. Fourteen members of the Conservative Party have been suspended this week over Islamophobic comments made on Facebook, and last night Baroness Warsi, the Conservative Party’s ...
News today that councils are having to sell off libraries, playgrounds and public buildings to pay for austerity-induced cuts and redundancies should come as no surprise to those well versed in the self-defeating nature of such policies. As early as 2016 the International Monetary Fund were sounding the alarm about ...
“sometimes accusations of racism are used by people against people they don’t like and that weakens the fight against genuine racism”