Steve Baker was forced to formally apologise to the House this morning for entertaining a conspiracy theory put forward by Jacob Rees-Mogg. The Brexit minister said he was sorry for not challenging a damaging claim that Treasury officials are attempting to influence Brexit policy. Mr Baker said on Thursday the ...
The number of British households that consider themselves millionaires has rose by nearly a third in two years as the wealth of the poorest households diminished. A total of 3.6 million households in Britain held wealth of more than £1 million by June 2016, up 29 per cent in two ...
Mike Ashley completed his winter heist of Newcastle United's transfer funds last night, bringing in just three loan signings after a buy-out saga dominated most of the transfer window. The club's infamous owner was under a lot of pressure to spend big in this window with Newcastle lying perilously above ...
@BenGelblum With Britain's police budgets set to lose £700m a year, amid rising crime, and yet more cuts planned for border forces, parliament today heard of the tragic consequences of less money to fight a growing drug-fuelled gang crime epidemic. Knife crime is not being driven by minors and teenagers. ...
A van driver on trial for ploughing into a crowd of Muslims outside Finsbury Park mosque leaving one man dead in a bid to kill as many of them as he could had earlier hoped to kill senior Labour party figures including Jeremy Corbyn, the court heard. Darren Osborne, 48, ...
New official figures include loss of sight, brain damage, loss of consciousness, asphyxia, amputation and even death The number of serious injuries suffered by education workers after violent assaults has shot up by 24% in the past five years, new figures obtained by the GMB show. In 2016/16, 477 assaults ...
Major cities running out of water is becoming the new normal according to The Climate Council. From 1st February residents in Cape Town will be allowed to use no mare than 13.2 gallons of drinking water a day in an effort to avoid "Day Zero." If "Day Zero" does arrive, many ...
Former England captain David Beckham has told a packed press conference that launching a new football team in Miami is a “dream come true.” The 42-year-old former Manchester United, Real Madrid and LA Galaxy legend has just announced his new career as a Major League Soccer team owner after he ...
German car manufacturers have been testing the impact of diesel fumes on monkeys by getting them to inhale them in lab conditions. Health impact research done by EUGT, a body funded by Volkswagen, Daimler and BMW, has today been denounced by the German government as "abominable" after reports emerged that ...