Philip Hammond put aside more money for Brexit than the NHS in the 2017 Budget in a reversal of the promises outlined during the referendum campaign. The Chancellor said £3 billion would be spent on Brexit planning, while just £2.8 billion will go to the NHS. In a deeply ironic twist ...
Watch PMQs carefully and see if you can spot what has been dubbed Theresa May’s “kill team” or “K-team.” The Sunday Telegraph recently exposed a "precision bombing exercise" choreographed by new Chief Whip Julian Smith to "shout Corbyn down and put him off his stride". Due to worries about Jeremy ...
The Conservative party narrowly voted against Labour's bid to retain EU human rights measures in UK law post-Brexit last night by 311 votes to 301. Just one Conservative MP, Ken Clarke, defied the Government whip and voted for the motion to retain the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, put forward by Jeremy ...
“Don’t worry; I can pour it myself, thanks.” Billy Bragg whispers politely to the waitress attempting to top up his glass. We are in a hotel in Newcastle about to talk about his new album Bridges Not Walls, politics, patriotism, socialism, Brexit, his stint in the army, and everything in ...
Last night's BBC documentary on the Labour election campaign had a very telling moment that appears to have been filmed in MP Stephen Kinnock's campaign in the run up to the June 8 General Election. A campaigner for Labour's MP for the Welsh constituency of Aberavon makes clear how if ...
Canary Wharf is sitting on a Brexit time bomb as the city's financial sector prepares to move away. The former docklands were transformed into one of the world's most important financial districts in the 1980s as part of a private sector-backed government initiative to transform the brownfield land that had ...
After the #StopFundingHate social media campaign persuaded Paperchase that the Daily Mail isn't in keeping with its values, the stationary chain apologised for a marketing campaign with the Mail and vowed not to work with it again. The campaign came after a series of pieces in the Mail singling out ...
Breaking: Labour MP Lisa Nandy just revealed in parliament the embarrassing inconsistencies between Prime Minister Theresa May and Home Secretary Amber Rudd over documents being hidden from the inquiry into allegations of child abuse by MP Cyril Smith. "The Home Secretary told me that some papers would be withheld from ...
An Afghan Police lieutenant has been called a hero after he prevented mass casualties by bear hugging a suicide bomber. Lt. Sayed Basam Pacha died after he heroically threw his arms around a terrorist in the country's capital Kabul. Although he was unable to stop the suicide jacket exploding he did prevent the ...