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By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor Jeremy hunt was told off like a naughty schoolboy and was then called ‘rude discourteous’ by speaker John Bercow after the Health Secretary was seen using his phone during a debate over nursing cuts. Hunt was accused of ‘impairing parliamentary decorum’ after he could be seen using his phone while Shadow Health Secretary Heidi Alexander led the debate. Bercow says to Hunt: ‘To sit there fiddling ostentatiously with an electronic device defies the established convention of the...

By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor MPs have expressed disappointment that the Foreign secretary Philip Hammond concluded that Saudi Arabia has not breached humanitarian law in Yemen. The select committee said it appears to show an “anything goes” attitude to how Saudi Arabia conducts itself. The International Development Select Committee rebukes Hammond, who made the decision even though a UN report and various charities presented evidence to the contrary. The committee, which is majority Tory, said the inquiry in to Saudi...

When even school children are going on strike, it’s a pretty shocking state of affairs. If you’re undecided, unsure of the importance of voting in local elections, please read this and figure out where your local council is likely to stand on this issue worth billions of pounds of our local assets and the education of not just this generation of school children, but future ones too. This week, my nine-year-old joined thousands of other children in #LetKidsBeKids strikes around the country, protesting the...

The last opposition to Donald Trump has melted away. First Ted Cruz and now John Kasich have given up the fight that most commentators thought was hopeless anyway. The Republican establishment has gone from plotting to outmanoeuvre him to pathetically accepting their fate. Shenanigans at the party's convention are now highly unlikely. There will be no 'Draft Paul Ryan' movement. Trump will win on the first ballot and damn the consequences. How has a man with no political experience and...

As little as 35 per cent of eligible voters could cast their ballet in today's London Mayoral election. According to figures from Sporting Index it could be the lowest voter turnout for a London Mayoral contest since 2000. The company expects Labour’s candidate, Tooting MP Sadiq Khan, to receive 46.5 per cent of the first preference vote, with rival Zac Goldsmith trailing by ten points. UKIP’s Peter Whittle (5.5 per cent) looks set to edge out the Green’s Sian Berry (5 per...

By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor There have been claims made by a well known anti-corruption campaigner that UK authorities will “always find excuses not to investigate” money laundering. Bill Browder, a former Hedge Fund chief, told MPs that the UK are actually refusing to look at evidence of “dirty” Russian money, that indicate that money is being laundered through our banking system. Browder believes that authorities don’t want “to rock the boat,” even when he filed six complaints linked to...

By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor It started with New Zealand’s police #runningmanchallenge Facebook video but it has now been followed by NYPD. The NZ police force released the video of some of their officers getting down to the “running man” dance in a slightly unorthodox recruitment drive. They then challenged other forces across the world to mimic them. The clip is part of a year-long campaign by the New Zealand police force, which wants to sign up 400 new officers...

Zac Goldsmith has looked to reconnect with ordinary London folk by delivering milk in Holland Park. The Tory candidate for Mayor of London took to the streets on a milk round to dispel myths that he's just another Old Etonian, although he only delivered to Kensington and Mayfair. Delivering milk & his Action Plan for Greater London! @ZacGoldsmith on milk round with @DominicGilham #BackZac2016 pic.twitter.com/LfPbnP1kDH — Nick de Bois (@nickdebois) May 4, 2016 He struggled to get to grips with...