Four years ago, I saw four young men going through the bins on the estate by my office, looking for food. I was staggered to discover that they all had jobs, but had only just started work and had to wait 5 weeks for their first pay cheques. After being ...
This week has seen the French political landscape change significantly on two fronts. Emmanuel Macron was elected the youngest President ever as head of a new party that exists outside of the dominant Parti socialiste on the left and Les Républicains on the right, an achievement that would have been considered impossible in a ...
There will be no escaping in cyberspace for rogue and criminal letting agents and landlords in London, after tough-talking Mayor Sadiq Khan launched an online initiative to "name and shame" the money-grabbing miscreants. The popular Labour mayor announced the bold move after joining an enforcement raid in Newham to root ...
Not to sound ungrateful, but inheriting a country that is awash with unaffordable housing, mega inflated education fees, toxic air and a juicy divorce case with its biggest trading partner is a pretty shoddy settlement as far as young Brits are concerned. MPs last week warned that young Brits will be ...
My old economics teacher used to say that regardless of what other big issues might be surrounding a General Election the thing that really sticks in the back of people’s minds when they head to the polling stations is whether they can put food on the table. Labour’s chances of ...
It can be quite unsettling as a Yorkshireman to be more perturbed by our political landscape than about the price of beer or the weather conditions, but with the divorce from our biggest trading partner officially underway and a snap election on the horizon to cement said proceedings my contempt ...
Bookmakers today shed light on an election devoid of opposition, pricing the Tories 1/7 to win an overall majority in June. With Labour significantly behind in the polls, the UK's opposition party is 14/1 to win the General Election, with "no majority" 13/2. The Conservatives are 1/10 to win the most ...
Theresa May has called a snap General Election. In a Downing Street announcement just now, May says it is with reluctance that she called an election. May claimed that although the 'The country is coming together, but Westminster is not.' She challenges the opposition parties to accept an early election, then ...
In a surprise statement outside Number 10 Downing Street Prime Minister Theresa May called for a snap General Election on June 8, going back on repeated promised not to. With Conservatives around 20 points ahead of Labour in opinion polls, many Tory figures have been urging the PM to go ...