"It is becoming clear that many on the government benches want to use Brexit to rip up standards, rights to work and deregulate the economy." "For many on the benches opposite it is the chance to make Britain a tax haven for the super rich. The choice is clear: a ...
Labour MP Frank Field told the House of Commons a harrowing story all too typical around the country - everyone should watch this: "We need a root and branch reform of PIP (Personal Independence Payments - the Conservatives replacement of Disability Living Allowance). One of the people who came to 'Feeding Birkenhead' foodbank ...
Reports of a Tory plot to pull the UK out of the EU Working Time Directive could see 7 million workers in the UK lose rights to paid holidays, GMB has warned today. Brexit hardliners are today expected to demand Theresa May ditches safeguards post-Brexit which were designed by the EU to protect ...
Last night on Question Time this heated argument erupted between a landlord – buying and doing up council housing and renting it out – and another audience member who accused him of adding to the problem of Margaret Thatcher’s right to buy your council home legacy. – A legacy which ...
A woman who faced being separated from her newborn baby and British husband after giving birth in September has now been told she can stay in the UK. Heavily-pregnant Wanwan Qiao, 27, faced being deported to China earlier this year without her baby boy, Oliver, because officials said she was ...
The United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted along party lines - three Republicans vs two Democrats to end Net Neutrality and the principle of a free internet that everyone can access equally. - A principle that heralded an era of innovation, freedom of speech and new forms of communication ...
Donald Trump's vote for the New York City mayoral race had to be binned because he got his birthday wrong. The President was not in the Big Apple when voters went the polls, so he voted by absentee ballot. But things didn't go too swimmingly for the man who once ...
Latest study predicts sea rises of between 3.1ft and 8ft this century Heavily populated US Atlantic and Gulf coasts could face up to 11ft sea rise Homes of 153 million people in at risk areas around the world threatened If carbon emissions "immediately and aggressively” cut, rise could be limited ...
After a tentative agreement was finally achieved in the first phase of Brexit negotiations, Theresa May was not expecting a major defeat on her Brexit plans in the House of Commons. Eleven Conservative rebels voted with the opposition for Amendment 7 - an amendment by former Conservative Attorney General Dominic ...