By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor I have been away getting married and on my honeymoon, and hands up I didn’t want to keep up with the unraveling of UK politics. Without sounding like an egotist, our politicians don’t deserve a moment of my time, or anyone else’s for that matter. ...
Today Theresa May will officially become leader of The Conservative party and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. She is by far the worse candidate for the job, except for all the others. After all, what's a pro-war, pro-bedroom tax, pro-trident, pro-welfare spending cuts politician who repeatedly uses immigrants as scapegoats ...
The Labour Party is tearing itself apart. Jeremy Corbyn's lukewarm support of the Remain campaign is just the excuse many Labour MP s have been waiting for. Corbyn's overwhelming surprise victory in Labour's leadership election upset moderate and right-leaning Labour members. Though Corbyn did his best to satisfy his parliamentary ...
Jeremy Corbyn’s brother Piers has revealed he is a Brexiteer despite his brother campaigning for remaining in the EU. Speaking to the London Evening Standard he said "I voted to leave. Of course. “The EU has big problems.” The Labour party is in disarray following the Brexit vote, with several members ...
By Babatunde Salau The hijacking of the EU referendum into a Tory civil war shows how divisive the issue is within the Conservative party. In an effort to definitively settle the issue, Cameron unleashed a eurosceptic sentiment that threatens not just his leadership, but also confidence in Brussels, as a growing ...
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor Two of the most outspoken MPs in the Commons have broke ranks with the party line and are backing Brexit. They become the ninth and tenth Labour Members of Parliament who are going to vote out on June 23. It is feared that working class ...
When Jeremy Corbyn arrived in Llandudno on the Labour leadership campaign trail some 500 people spilled out of the doors of a hotel ballroom in seaside town of just 20,000. Corbynmania had gripped the country and he was elected with the largest mandate ever won by a party leader, though no previous Labour ...
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor There have already been rumours that the Chilcot inquiry will come down hard on Tony Blair, and a lot of the British people blame him for entering a war that was unnecessary and possibly illiegal. Recently Blair himself admitted that he “profoundly” underestimated the complexity ...
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor It was stand in day, so our esteemed chancellor and Angela Eagle stepped in to take the reins, but both became whipping boys for the same issues that effect Cameron and Corbyn at every PMQs, who I’ve labelled “Camcor’, and I hate myself for it. ...