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No Deal Brexit now an odds-on reality

Dominic Raab returns to Brussels today with the odds against him sealing a Brexit deal before the 29th March 2019 deadline. Bookies are now 8/11 for a Hard Brexit and the odds on a second referendum on EU membership are shortening drastically too. It’s now 2/1 from 7/2 for Brits to have a second chance to cast their vote on the country’s future relationship with Europe before the end of 2019, while it’s evens with the leading online bookmaker for Raab...

Britain is living on the poverty line, and there will be no lifeline under this government

Citizens Advice is helping someone with bailiff-related problems every three minutes as many in Britain finds itself descending into poverty with no lifeline in sight. UK households have fallen behind on essential bills such as council tax and electricity by as much as £18.9 billion, according to the independent charity, with total debts of almost £7.5 billion in tax credit overpayments, £2.84 billion in council tax and £2.2 billion in water bills. The damning report shows that household debt has...

Shocking G4S failings at Britain’s first privatised prison revealed as minister refuses to resign

Suicides, drugs and violence with impunity, vulnerable prisoners locked up 23 hours a day and corridors littered with cockroaches, blood and vomit all featured in a shocking prisons inspectorate report that had HMP Birmingham taken off private security firm G4S within hours. With prison assaults, drugs taking and self-harm at record levels nationally, the government will have lots of questions to answer about the unprecedented crisis and how contracts are awarded to the private sector are properly managed. “HMP Birmingham...

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