Lies... there have been loads of them. And not all on the side of a bus. Banning bendy bananas... renaming Bombay Mix to make the snack politically correct... rolling out a one-size-fits-all “euro condom” - a certain section of the British press have shamelessly misrepresented the EU to invent the kind ...
Donald Tusk has said there is a "special place in hell" for "those who promoted Brexit without even a sketch of a plan of how to carry it out safely". The European Council President was speaking after talks Irish premier Leo Varadkar in Brussels in which he emphasised that there were 50 ...
Labour MP Richard Burgon has won £30,000 damages from The Sun newspaper over a ridiculous story the newspaper ran with a Nazi “slur” about the Shadow Justice Secretary. MP Richard Burgon who has been outspoken against antisemitism said he would be using the payout to fund an internship for a ...
Gerard Batten has claimed just 100 lorries cross the Republic of Ireland–United Kingdom border a day and that Guinness accounts for half of them in an astonishing Twitter rant. The UKIP leader was responding to a James O'Brien segment on LBC radio discussing why Brexiters hate the Irish backstop so much. O'Brien ...
The hostile atmosphere over Brexit could be exploited by far-right extremists, claims the UK's most senior counter-terrorism officer Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu said 18 terror plots were foiled in Britain since 2017, four of them far-right. Mr Basu told the BBC: "We saw a spike in hate crime after the ...
The latest polling data has put the Conservatives and Labour neck and neck in the race for 10 Downing Street. ICM Research puts Labour one point ahead of the Tories with 40 per cent of the vote. Corbyn's party has increased their share by two points while Theresa May's Conservatives ...
Theresa May reiterated once again that she will “respect the result of the referendum” this week as she took questions from Jeremy Corbyn at PMQs. The Prime Minister reverted back to her default position amidst mounting pressure from politicians to hold a second referendum. According to the latest polls the ...
HOPE not hate has been exposing the coordinated attempt by far-right activists to hijack the Brexit debate to spread hate and division. MPs such as Anna Soubry and journalists such as Kay Burley from Sky News as well as Guardian columnist Owen Jones have been targeted for harassment, intimidation and abuse ...
Following the success of the Brexit referendum, MPs today voted in a new bill to allow a mystery candidate to stand in the next General Election