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Johnson & Gove should be locked up over Brexit lies, says Alan Sugar
Outspoken businessman and Apprentice host, Alan Sugar, blasted Boris Johnson and Michael Gove over their comments leading up to the Brexit vote, in 2016. He said the pair should be put in jail for lying and deceiving the public, especially regarding the £350m more to spend on NHS a week, post-Brexit. Sugar even claimed the referendum result should be classed as void, as the public were “totally misled.” He told the House of Lords: "No such process exists for claims...
Suspected car thief who crashed into group of pedestrians outside London mosque appeared in court
Martin Stokes, 24, is accused of hit and run crash in Cricklewood
Huge public support for anti-austerity policies in budget, poll finds
After PM announced the end of austerity, poll shows even Conservative voters think it’s time to give public sector workers a pay rise The British public overwhelmingly support measures to end austerity in next week’s Budget, exclusive polling by Survation for GMB reveals. The results also show a large majority of people (68%) backed a real terms pay rise for millions of public sector workers. Those polled also wanted the Chancellor to announce the following measures: Increased public investment in...
Universal Credit causing major hardship, says report
More people are worse off under Universal Credit, according to a report published by a cross-party committee of MPs. Following evidence given by organisations including Mind and anti-poverty charity The Trussell Trust, the Public Accounts Committee has published their latest report which adds to the growing concern surrounding Universal Credit. Responding to the report, Director of External Relations at Mind, Sophie Corlett said:“Today’s hard-hitting report from the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) adds to mounting concerns about Universal Credit. The damning...
Fragile seashores were “cradle of evolution” for first fish
Fish originated in shallow ocean waters - such as lagoons - some 480 to 360 million years ago before diversifying
Sir Philip Green named as person involved #MeToo scandal during House of Lords speech
Sir Philip Green, owner of Top Shop, was named by Labour peer Peter Hain, who said he was using parliamentary privilege in the public interest to out the businessmen, after an injunction banned a national paper from naming him. Earlier in the week, the Telegraph ran an article accusing an unnamed and prominent businessman of racial & sexual abuse of staff. Hain told the House of Lords: “Having been contacted by somebody intimately involved in the case of a powerful...
Six different types of tiger surviving in the wild – but three have already been wiped out
Efforts to save the tiger from extinction have been boosted after ecologists concluded that there are SIX different types of the big cat still surviving in the wild
University Union president sparks controversy for promising to vandalise mural of fallen WWI soldiers because it depicts ‘white men’
The president of Southampton University's Students' Union has caused outrage by threatening to vandalise a painting of students who were unable to complete their degrees as they went to fight in WW1
Tiny songbird with an unusually long bill discovered on remote island
The striking brown and yellow bird is just four inches long including a half an inch beak and tips the scales at a quarter of an ounce - less than two teaspoons of sugar