Brits are delaying booking Channel crossings until they have more certainty over the final Brexit deal, Brittany Ferries has warned. The company, which carries as many as 2,500 passengers on each vessel to France and Spain, says concerns over future travel implications has led to a 4 to 5 per ...
The Trussell Trust says it has handed out a record number of emergency supplies between April and September this year as the government’s disastrous roll-out of Universal Credit continues to wreak havoc on the most vulnerable people in the country. More than 650,000 emergency supplies were handed out to people ...
Chuka Umunna is in line to get paid £65,000 a year to chair a new centrist think tank for just 12 hours a month. The Labour MP announced this month he will be heading up the advisory board of Progressive Centre UK, which has the “aim of connecting progressives from ...
MP Frank Field has warned that the government’s flagship welfare project is driving women into the sex trade as opposition to Universal Credit continues to mount. In a nod to I, Daniel Blake he said women in his Birkenhead constituency are taking to the red light district for the ...
English and Welsh households are paying £53 each a year to service the debts of private water companies that were accumulated after they doled out ridiculously high dividends to shareholders, a London School of Economics report has revealed. Payments on £1.2 billion worth of debt have landed directly on the ...
The Conservatives are at risk of being overrun by a ‘blue Momentum-style’ takeover at local Conservative branches – with former Ukipers leading the march. An increase in membership has been reported by 42 out of 75 local associations, with many noting a change since the Chequers deal was agreed by ...
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Heroic doctors who worked in West Africa during the crisis in 2014 - 2015 gathered to protest the 'border police' policies which NHS workers are expected to carry out
In 2015 ahead of the Labour leadership election Jeremy Corbyn was a 200-1 outsider on the Betfair Exchange to win the contest. Without enough nominations to make the ballot the Islington North MP was written off by most of the media. His shock win sent shockwaves across the political spectrum that ...