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Mum-of-four had benefits cut as she was too sick to attend meeting died cold & alone wrapped in a coat and scarf, her family claimed
A mum-of-four who had her benefits cut after she was too sick to attend a meeting died cold and alone wrapped in a coat and scarf, her family claimed yesterday. Elaine Morrall, 38, had her benefits stopped because she failed to attend a meeting about universal credit as she was in a hospital intensive care unit, they said. Elaine, who suffered from an eating disorder and mental health problems, was found dead in her housing trust home earlier this month....
Tory Minister Priti Patel resigns for breaching the Ministerial Code.
International Development Secretary Priti Patel has resigned for breaking the Ministerial Code with secret meetings with Israeli politicians that have emerged this week. Just 24 hours after the Prime Minister announced that she had accepted Priti Patel’s apology and defended her cabinet colleague, Patel had to cut short an official visit to Uganda to head back to the UK and explain further revelations that emerged last night about more undisclosed meetings with Israeli officials. Her parliamentary colleagues had accused her...
Very rare copy of the first map to name America has emerged
An extraordinarily rare copy of the first map to name America has emerged - and it is expected to sell for almost £1 MILLION. The 1507 map, by Martin Waldseemüller, is being described as a "significant cartographic discovery". It names American for the first time and is also the first map to illustrate separate South and North American continent. The map, by the most important cartographer of the early 16th century, is one of five copies in existence and was...
Revealed: Theresa May knew of Priti Patel secret meeting but she was told to hide it
The Jewish Chronicle just revealed that Number 10 WAS aware of Priti Patel’s extra meeting with an Israeli minister - but she was told to keep them quiet. As Priti Patel aborts an official visit to Uganda to return to the UK in a growing crisis over secret meetings with Israeli ministers and plans to divert foreign aid to Israeli Defence Force administered projects, this latest revelation raises serious questions about Theresa May’s actions. Theresa May refused to sack the...
Train staff tell passenger to pick up suspicious unattended bag and “hand it in”
A worried passenger was shocked when she reported a suspicious abandoned bag on a train and was told by staff to pick it up herself. Georgia Stone, 22, was on an 08.49am Greater Anglia service to London when she spotted a large unattended sports bag yesterday. She said on Twitter: "08.49 Bishops Stortford to Liverpool Street someone has left a large sports bag on the train on a seat by itself." Greater Anglia replied: "Hi. If there is no-one around...
Odds on Theresa May to resign and Jeremy Corbyn to win next election slashed
Theresa May is now 5/2 to resign before the new year amidst cabinet chaos. The Prime Minister's odds have been slashed from 25/1 after the actions of Priti Patel, Boris Johnson and Michael Fallon left the front bench in turmoil. Betway still holds 2018 as the favoured year for her resignation at even-money, but an unruly and misbehaved cabinet has seen her odds of leaving No.10 before the end of the year fall dramatically. The Conservatives have also been pushed out from...
Claims Brexit means “taking back control” exposed as myth by trade White Paper
No one in Britain voted for their jobs, public and health services, employment and environmental protections to be sold down the river to the lowest bidder, says union GMB, the UK’s general union, says claims Brexit means 'taking back control' have been exposed as a myth by the Government’s new trade white paper. Liam Fox’s paper, released on the eve of the next round of Brexit talks which begin tomorrow, exposes the Conservative’s obsession with deregulation and failed neoliberal proposals...
Politicians should take responsibility for Paradise Papers rather than point score
Politicians should take responsibility for the Paradise Papers rather than trying to score cynical political points, the boss of one of the world’s largest independent financial services organisations has said. Westminster has been engulfed in political mudslinging since the release of the damning financial data on Sunday, which implicated the queen amongst other high profile figures in significant offshore investments. But for high-profile politicians to complain and take the moral high ground when it is they who have the powers to...
Awkward: NHS boss asks Brexiteers “where’s our money?”
The National Health Service should receive the cash boost it was promised during the EU referendum, boss Simon Stevens is expected to say later. The health service was promised £350 million a week during the referendum financed by the payments we would receive back from Europe when we are divorced from the union. However the populist claims were rubbished soon after the result - with experts pointing out that we receive a rebate of £100 million back. But given that the...