Jeremy Corbyn will be rubbing his hands after a new report by the International Monetary Fund backed Labour's tax strategy and discredited the Conservatives' approach. Higher income tax rates for rich would reduce inequality without impacting economic growth. The research revealed higher income tax rates for the rich would help reduce ...
Theresa May's first major live appearance since a shambolic Conservative Party Conference speech in which she was served a P45 by a comedian was a chance to make the comeback the beleaguered Prime Minister urgently needed. Instead it was a shocking balls up. Three times when pressed by LBC presenter ...
Kenneth Clarke put the boot into Boris Johnson in the first House of Commons debate since fierce cabinet divisions have left the PM having to admonish Johnson for undermining her leadership on Brexit. Clarke recently insisted that Boris Johnson would have been sacked by now if the Tories had a ...
Prime Minister Theresa May has been consumed by the shadow of Brexit, according to the Deputy Mayor for Wandsworth Talking exclusively to The London Economic Conservative Councillor Ian Lewer reflected on a "deflated" party conference in which the "wild forces" of the Brexit referendum were to be seen in the flesh. Nothing ...
Oh deary dear. Deary deary deary me. So it turns out that the bit of Theresa May’s car crash Conservative Party Conference keynote speech that wasn’t marred by being handed a P45, her constant miserable coughing or the new slogan she got in to replace “strong and stable” falling off ...
Instead of wasting money creating Uber for the NHS, why doesn’t the health secretary give all NHS staff the pay rise they desperately need? GMB, the union for public sector workers, says a new healthcare workforce app unveiled by Jeremy Hunt will bring the gig economy to the NHS. In ...
By Benjamin Jenkins Jeremy Hunt has been called out for trying to rewrite history at the Conservative Party Conference after he claimed that the Tories were responsible for the creation of the National Health Service. The Secretary of State for Health played a clip from 1944 when the NHS was founded, ...
Shocking scenes continue in Catalonia with reports that 465 have been injured so far in brutal police attempts to disrupt voting in an independence referendum for Catalonia that the Spanish government had declared illegal. Leftwing Spanish politicians and Catalonian figures have demanded that Spanish prime minister Mariano Rajoy resign after ...
The Conservative Party Conference in Manchester has been slammed for a Boeing-sponsored “Drink Tank” while the corporation aggressively pursues Bombardier, urging the US to impose job-threatening tariffs. In a shameful Tory conference embarrassment, the Secretary of State for Health Jeremy Hunt is due to speak tonight at a drinks sponsored ...