During yesterday’s PMQs Theresa May announced the Government had appointed a suicide prevention minister, the first time this role had been introduced in the UK. It has now emerged that the new minister, Jackie Doyle-Price has made jokes about suicide. She had previously told a newspaper in her Thurrock constituency, ...
Serious doubts have been raised about the BBC’s impartiality during the Brexit referendum campaign. Former Business Editor Robert Peston, who spent nine years with the public broadcaster before switching to ITV in 2015, said the national broadcaster failed to deliver impartial and balanced journalism in its coverage of the referendum. ...
By Chloé Farand Chloé Farand is a reporter at Desmog UK investigating climate change denial - where this report first appeared. In a packed lecture hall a few hundred metres away from the Conservative Party Conference, climate science denier and hard-Brexiter MP Owen Paterson told the cheering crowd: “We are the mainstream ...
Yesterday Home Secretary Sajid Javid praised veteran Labour MP Dianne Abbott for being the sort of "role model" that Conservatives should be appealling to, insiting "it takes guts and determination to become the first black woman to be elected to the House of Commons," in a rousing Conservative Party Conference ...
GMB, Britain’s general union, today announced its backing for Sadiq Khan’s to continue as the Labour Party’s Mayoral candidate in the upcoming 2020 London contest. Paul Maloney, GMB Southern Regional Secretary said: “In the face of savage austerity and a Tory Government, Sadiq has worked tirelessly as Mayor to support ...
Michael Gove this morning denied that fellow hard Brexit Tories are plotting to oust their party leader. Talking to the BBC’s Today programme Mr Gove insisted that "loose talk" of a leadership challenge could "undermine" Brexit negotiations, despite reports that 50 of his colleagues met last night to discuss ditching ...
Depsite the mounting pressure on Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, his party is pulling away in the polls. A poll, by Survation, has given Labour an extra one per cent taking the party to 41 per cent, while the Tories are down to 37 per cent, a reduction of one point. ...
The Prime Minister is a dead woman walking. Her political career is stumbling along like a zombie, getting ever slower and more unsteady. Brexit negotiations are going badly and no-one is happy with the current situation. Theresa May is enduring attacks from her left and her right; her own party ...
If it’s her awkward dance moves in a Cape Town school that cause embarrassment as Theresa May kicks off her tour of Africa, it’s a welcome distraction from a more awkward dance to the tune of her party – bitterly divided on the consequences of a No Deal Brexit. Shuffling ...