Change UK’s primary candidate in Scotland has quit the party over concerns that it could split the Remain vote in the upcoming elections. David Macdonald says he will now back the Liberal Democrats in the contest in a move Chuka Umunna has described as “disappointing” and a “let down" to...
Flying first class on business trips, never having to contribute to the tea round, and having your name on the office door are among the signs of success in the workplace, it has emerged. A poll of 2,000 office workers found one in four also believe being asked about important...
Rising inequality is putting Britain on the path to becoming one of the most unequal nations on earth, a Nobel-prize winning economist has claimed. Sir Angus Deaton is leading a landmark review of inequality in the UK amid fears that the country is at a tipping point due to a...
“A WTO No Deal Brexit is now the only way to honour the referendum result”, Alasdair Dow of the grassroots cross-party campaign group Get Britain Out wrote on Brexit Central earlier this year. The consensus among Leave advocates seems to be the same. Theresa May’s negotiated deal with the European...
Bankers have seen their pay increase by 9.3 per cent since 2009 as average wages fall by 3.1 per cent, new figures show. In the ten years since the financial crash the typical worker has been left nearly £1,000 worse off a year in real terms, the Trades Union Congress...
More than half of women admit they reveal intimate secrets to their hairdresser - that they wouldn’t dare share with anyone else, it has emerged. Research revealed many females are more than happy to spill the beans in the stylist’s chair, including everything from sensitive issues such as money worries...
A sand artist has paid graphic homage to Brexit and the Prime Minister's precarious state - with a giant sculpture of Theresa May losing her head under a falling guillotine. The controversial sculpture depicts a large globe with a horrified looking May in the centre, throwing her head under a...
Shadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer has said any Brexit deal struck between the government and Labour will not make it through the House of Commons without the pledge of a "confirmatory" referendum. Theresa May is set to continue talks with Labour today in a bid to end the political...
The UK’s super rich are preparing to leave the UK should Jeremy Corbyn enter Downing Street, a Sunday Times investigation has revealed. A record 151 billionaires were recorded on the paper’s Rich List this year, a 9.2 per cent rise on last year with a combined wealth of nearly £525...