Emeritus Professor Mary Mellor debunks the myths behind austerity... Austerity - the culling of public services in response to the spike in public spending following the 2007-8 financial crisis - caused widespread hardship. It reflected two myths: that the market is the sole source of funding for public spending and ...
Many Conservative MPs have vowed to sink their own government if the country was heading for a ruinous no-deal Brexit, which would result in a general election.
Research revealed the digital trail and forgeries behind stories designed to appeal to conspiracy theory fans, right wingers and Brexit supporters.
Evidence has also emerged of far right activist Steve Bannon advising Boris Johnson despite Johnson's previous denials of a relationship.
The Labour Party has retaken the lead in the polls and is now up 4 points at 26 per cent of voting intentions as the post-European Parliament election boost for the Brexit Party fades.
Carrie Symonds, 31, was heard arguing with the Tory leadership battle favourite at her third floor flat in a Victorian townhouse in Camberwell, south east London, in the early hours of Friday
Conservative Party politician Mark Field appears to leap from his seat and grab a climate protestor round the neck in this shocking video clip many are calling to be referred to the police. The Member of Parliament for Cities of London and Westminster and Minister of State at the Foreign ...
They have been found everywhere from Bermuda to Cornwall
“They are destroying people’s and families lives. "The Windrush generation and their relatives deserve better and need Windrush period to be widened. They need protection and not punishment."
Iran “made a very big mistake” in shooting down a US drone, Trump has said. Tehran’s Revolutionary Guard claimed the attack, using a surface-to-air missile, had sent “a clear message” to the US that it was “ready for war”. Mr Trump made the comment after quoting praise he had received on a TV ...
I doubt refugees in Calais know it’s #WorldRefugeeDay, but they have still marked the occasion - Border Force officials tell us that 163 people have arrived on the coast of Kent this month, the largest number in any one month so far. And just like every time we hear a ...
The Conservative’s waved goodbye to Rory Stewart last night, and with it, any hope of realism being part of the Brexit negotiations. The remaining candidates now occupy ground known colloquially as Cloud Cuckoo Land, a state of absurdly unrealistic ideals where people are prone to unsettling visions of grandeur. Jeremy ...
“Is Labour’s Brexit dilemma being misunderstood?”, Professor John Curtice wrote ahead of the crucial 2017 by-elections in Copeland and Stoke. The feeling at the time was that areas such as Stoke epitomised what the typical Labour voter wanted. Some 69 per cent of the party’s stronghold seat voted to Leave ...
British opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn will back a move on Wednesday for the Labour Party to change its Brexit policy and support a second referendum in all circumstances, The Times reported, citing a senior Labour source. A paper by Corbyn's head of policy, Andrew Fisher, recommends that Labour support a ...
Hope Hicks, once a close aide and communications director for President Donald Trump, becomes on Wednesday the first member of his inner circle to testify to the congressional panel leading a probe into possible obstruction of justice by Trump, reports Reuters in Washington. Democrats who control the House of Representatives ...
a “declaration of war against the NGOs who are saving lives at sea”
Europe sought to increase the flow of money into businesses that tackle climate change on Tuesday with the publication of European Commission guidelines on what qualifies an investment as environmentally friendly. The European Union has agreed to substantial reductions of carbon emissions by 2030 and its executive wants the bloc ...
The majority of Conservative members would countenance the destruction of their own party if it meant Brexit was delivered. A new poll has revealed that exiting the European Union has become a priority for members, subverting traditional loyalties and reshaping political priorities. The majority (54 per cent) said they would ...
Michel Platini, the former head of European football association UEFA, was detained for questioning by French police on Tuesday over the awarding of the 2022 World Cup soccer tournament to Qatar, a judicial source told Reuters. Platini's lawyer William Bourdon was not immediately available for comment. The detention of the ...
Lord Alf Dubs was one of 10,000 children rescued from the Nazis by the Kindertransport. Today he will call for Theresa May to match pre-war Britain’s humanity by allowing 10,000 refugee children to come to the UK. Lord Dubs will be joined by council chiefs prepared to take more unaccompanied ...
Rory Stewart stole the first TV debate between Conservative leadership contestants last night with straight-talking views on Brexit. The MP for Penrith and The Border received a warm response for hitting back at suggestions that a no deal should be kept on the negotiating table, pointing out that parliament is ...
It’s a matter of faith among Brexit supporters that failing to obey the consultative referendum on EU membership is an assault on democracy. MPs who actively campaign to stay in the EU are betraying that democracy. Almost every day a Brexiteer or sympathetic news outlet rages against the ‘anti-democratic’ Remain ...
In 2014 Scotland took to the polls in what was expected to be an era-defining verdict on its independence. Voting convincingly to remain as part of the United Kingdom on a turnout not seen since the introduction of universal suffrage the result was expected to put the issue to bed, ...
The prospect of Boris Johnson running the country looks like an all too inevitable possibility following the first round of votes cast yesterday. Bookies now price Johnson at 1/5 to win the leadership race after he scooped 114 votes out of a potential 313, with Jeremy Hunt (43 votes), Michael ...
Powerful messages have been beamed onto unsafe tower blocks across the country two years on from the tragic Grenfell Tower fire. On 14th June 2017 72 people were killed after flames were able to spread quickly through a tower block in West London due to cladding made from highly flammable ...
The BBC has come under fire this week for its decision to axe free TV licenses for over-75s. Hundreds of thousands of people have signed a “Save Our Free TV Licence” petition demanding the broadcasting corporation reverses its decision, with Piers Morgan, David Davis and Matt Hancock among the high-profile ...
Humans are ingesting the equivalent of one credit card per week from water, food and the air they breathe. A new WWF study called 'Assessing Plastic Ingestion from Nature to People' reports that people consume 2,000 tiny pieces of plastic each week, on average, which is the equivalent of eating ...
The Withdrawal Agreement is not going to get through Parliament and the UK needs more time to sort out a Brexit deal, Mark Harper announced today in a rare display of realism. Alongside Rory Stewart he is one of the few Conservative leadership candidates campaigning on hard-truths in his bid ...
Car manufacturing slumped by a massive 24 per cent in April as summer shutdowns were brought forward. New figures revealed the biggest drop in car manufacturing since records began as factory shutdowns took their toll on the industry. Several brought forward or extended shutdowns that normally take place in the ...
However high the wannabe PMs’ ambitions soar, they are all ignoring the massive come-down when Brexit reality actually kicks in.
Last night a thought struck me as I walked past The Shard on my way home. Parked outside the Shangri-La Hotel – where suits cost £10,000 a night – were a posse of Bentleys – which cost in excess of £150,000 – and other such beamers which stood proudly a ...
Theresa May has formally resigned as Conservative party leader officially triggering the start of race to succeed her. She'll stay Prime Minister until her successor is chosen, probably in mid-July. Applicants to be the new PM have until 5pm on Monday to register their interest in the vacancy, with 11 ...
A new poll has put Rory Stewart ahead of Boris Johnson as the public’s choice for Prime Minister. The results have been revealed on the day Theresa May officially resigned as leader of the Conservative and Unionist Party, with the 1922 Committee inviting nominations from MPs wanting to replace her. ...
If you’ve ever wondered what goes on behind the closed gates of big corporate farming companies, you might find the truth even more shocking than you could have imagined. In a new documentary feature titled Eating Animals which is set to open this weekend, director Christopher Quinn attempts to lift ...
The black carbon has been observed causing changes to the blood vessels around the organs for the first time.
Despite political pollsters and bookmakers predicting Nigel Farage's Brexit Party a shoe-in to win its first MP in Peterborough, a surge of Labour door-knocking and activism helped the party retain the seat. The election of a new MP came about after local people effectively sacked their former Member of Parliament, ...
As voters head to the polls in the Peterborough by-election, Nigel Farage's Brexit Party may well gain its first seat in Westminster today. But the new party campaigning hard for its first MP candidate Mike Greene has lost yet another senior figure to a fresh race hate scandal. A campaign ...
Boris is in front amongst Tory leadership hopefuls
A judicial review is underway into whether the increase in the women's pension age from 60-66 years is fair
Former Arsenal footballer Mathieu Flamini joined the protest aimed at protecting the ocean from plastic pollution and highlighting the climate crisis.
MEP Nigel Farage, whose Brexit Party now has 29 MEPs and is in talks to join the far-right bloc in the European Parliament, may be suspended from his lucrative (£90,000 a year) job as an MEP. The European Parliament has issued Farage with a summons to a hearing on Wednesday ...
An HM Inspectorate of Prisons report into Feltham Young Offenders Institute has revealed a massive increase in violence and self-harm, over a quarter of children locked in their cell for the whole work day and nearly two thirds reported having been physically restrained by staff. Shadow Justice Minister Imran Hussain ...
More than half of Change UK’s MPs have walked from the party following disastrous EU elections, it has been confirmed. Six of the 11 MPs have quit the party with Heidi Allen and Chukka Umunna among them. Anna Soubry, who has been elected the new party leader, said she was ...
Donald Trump has confirmed that the NHS will be on the table in a post-Brexit trade deal. Speaking at a press conference today the US President said: "When you're dealing in trade everything is on the table. So NHS or anything else, a lot more than that, but everything will ...
"Gove and Johnson, Johnson didn't even want to leave, they jumped on the back of it because they knew Cameron would have to go if he lost it."
