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 ...
From austerity, to Brexit, to economic collapse. That is the story of how the Conservatives have crippled the country over consecutive parliamentary terms and now the details have been exposed in full in a damning new study. According to a comprehensive research paper by University of Warwick economics professor Thiemo Fetzer Tory austerity ...
Over recent weeks, a number of prominent public figures have publicly launched verbal attacks on the religion of Islam, causing controversy, discontentment and debate across Europe. The most high-profile of these attacks came from prominent Dutch politician Geert Wilders, who in June of this year announced that he would be ...
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 ...
Last night in parliament, irony died, and perhaps with it the chance of any Brexit deal being accepted by enough of Theresa May’s threadbare majority. In a bizarre turn of events, the Prime Minister, weakened by nine resignations in eight days orchestrated by shadowy Tory 'government within a government' the ...
Nigel Farage tweeted a doctored photo of a pro-refugee campaigner who he labelled "sick" after being misled. The British MEP distributed the picture to his 1.2 million followers and garnered thousands of interactions before he removed it from his feed. It showed a smiling woman at a march holding a sign reading: ...
Labour are now odds on to triumph at the next general election, with 2018 also the frontrunner to be the year that Britain next goes to the polls. The Tories were plunged into chaos this week following the resignations of David Davis and Boris Johnson. The resignations come on the ...
The Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union (DExEU) has exited the cabinet with all attempts to appear united over Brexit in disarray. As reports emerge of Tory plots to oust Theresa May gathering pace, an opinion poll this weekend revealed that the majority of the British public would ...
Donations to the Conservative party were three times the size of any other party at the start of 2018, new figures have revealed. The Tories received £4.7 million in the first three months of the year, compared with £1.4 million of donations to Labour and £564,000 to the Liberal Democrats. Leading ...