Labour MP David Lammy poured scorn on the Conservative Party in the House of Commons today, describing their "small U-turn" on the Windrush generation as a "day of national shame". Speaking after Amber Rudd announced that a new task force would be set up to help Commonwealth immigrants facing deportation he said ...
Plans for a Brexit Museum have been embraced by prominent Leave politicians, with calls for it to be built "big enough to include the iconic red Brexit bus". The first steps towards the creation of the so-called "Museum of Sovereignty" were announced yesterday as Eurosceptics began assembling the memorabilia, texts of ...
A leaked Home Office document has confirmed suspicions that a fall in police numbers is likely to have contributed to a rise in serious violent crime. Former Met Commissioner Ian Blair echoed sentiments of Jeremy Corbyn last week saying "if you take 20 per cent of the Met’s funding away something ...
If there is one thing British politics does not need right now it is another elitist party run by the well off, but according to an Observer revelation published today that is precisely what it may be getting thanks to a new “centrist” movement spearheaded by a former Labour benefactor. ...
The Home Office has been called on to help a five-year-old with epilepsy whose mother says cannabis oil is the only treatment that can ease his suffering. Karen Gray, 43, launched a petition for Cannabidiol (CBD) oil to be prescribed to her son Murray, who was diagnosed with Myoclonic Astatic ...
Legalising cocaine and heroin would boost the economy by reducing the number of murders, according to new research. The finding presented at the Royal Economic Society's annual conference in Brighton suggests increasing access to education may prove more effective than trying to tackle criminals by force. Legalisation could reduce violence ...
New research of the Electoral Commission spending figures show the Conservatives paid over 50p more per vote than Labour, with Theresa May's embattled party outspending Jeremy Corbyn on all fronts. Each vote cost the Tories £1.36p compared to just 80p for Labour, with the Lib Dems having to shell out a ...
Jeremy Corbyn has been coming under fire from the Conservative Party, and his own party, for his stance over Russia in the wake of the poisoning of Sergei Skripal. The Labour leader said that, although Russia is probably culpable of the attack, he wanted proof and a calm response to ...
By Dr Roger Cottrell To listen to the selective media coverage and political sound bites regarding the poisoning, on March 4, in Salisbury, of Russian defector Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia, you might for a moment start to believe that Theresa May, Boris Johnson and Amber Rudd planned to ...