Scottish Labour reacted to Mhairi Black's attacks on Jeremy Corbyn at the SNP Conference with a scathing attack on her record in office and that of her party. "I am so disappointed with Jeremy Corbyn, so disappointed," the SNP MP for Paisley and Renfrewshire had told the SNP Conference, warning the...
The UK's youngest MP brought the house down at the SNP Conference with an emotive speech on Tory austerity and the damage it had wreaked. Mhairi Black started off mocking Prime Minister Theresa May by complaining she had a cough too, before insisting that Scotland is strong enough to survive...
Kenneth Clarke put the boot into Boris Johnson in the first House of Commons debate since fierce cabinet divisions have left the PM having to admonish Johnson for undermining her leadership on Brexit. Clarke recently insisted that Boris Johnson would have been sacked by now if the Tories had a...
The last US election played out as some pollsters had warned - like a terrible game of scissors, stone and paper. People found Bernie Sanders more believable than Donald Trump, yet the Democrat Party refused to believe in anyone but Hillary Clinton, even though many warned that she should have...
The Conservative Party Conference was still packing up when the knives were out for Theresa May. With Theresa May hanging onto power by her fingernails the plot to oust the PM is being “masterminded” by Grant Shapps. "A growing number of number of my colleagues, we realise that the solution...
Damien Green appeared on BBC’s Question Time and tried his best to defend a disastrous Conservative Party Conference so bereft of ideas that the Tory message literally falling apart on the wall behind Theresa May as she spoke made the front pages. The day after Theresa May - with only...
Wiltshire Police have revealed the findings of Operation Conifer - an immense investigation by five police forces into sexual abuse claims against former Tory PM Sir Edward Heath. After sifting through many accusations and testimonies from his alleged victims, the seasoned detectives who compiled the report agree that if the Conservative...
Oh deary dear. Deary deary deary me. So it turns out that the bit of Theresa May’s car crash Conservative Party Conference keynote speech that wasn’t marred by being handed a P45, her constant miserable coughing or the new slogan she got in to replace “strong and stable” falling off...
@BenGelblum Tomorrow an investigation into claims of sexual abuse by former Tory PM Sir Ted Heath is due to publish its report. It is expected to reveal links to 42 assaults on boys, with seven claims detectives regard serious enough that they would have questioned the former Prime Minister under caution...