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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 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...

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...

As winter closes in life for people on the streets becomes even worse, with an increase chance of death due to the plummeting temperature. With this is mind new research, released today, has indicated that one in 200 people in England is homeless. The report, by Shelter, has found that homelessness has increased 13 per cent this year, with over 307,000 people either in temporary accommodation or literally living out on the streets. Even more worrying is that Shelter believe...

In further signs that Theresa May has lost control of her party, new revelations have emerged that have made many question the Prime Minister’s decision not to sack hapless Development Minister Priti Patel. There were calls for many quarters for Patel to be sacked for breach of ministerial code after it emerged that she had used what appeared to be a family holiday this summer for secret meetings with 12 Israeli politicians including premier Binyamin Netanyahu. She had kept the...

MPs were told that seafood should be given special free trade status after Brexit to ensure Grimsby’s industry is not damaged.

Fossils of the oldest mammals related to mankind have been discovered for the first time on the 'Jurassic Coast' of Dorset. The two teeth are from small, rat-like creatures that lived 145 million years ago in the shadow of the dinosaurs. And one of the fossils has been named after the landlord of a pub near to where they were discovered by an undergraduate student. They are the earliest undisputed fossils of mammals belonging to the line that led to...

The British mainstream media is refusing to cover the Paradise Papers because most of the avoiders own the newspapers, James O'Brien has claimed. Speaking on LBC today O'Brien launched a scathing attack on Telegraph owners David and Frederick Barclay, Daily Mail owner Jonathan Harmsworth and The Sun and The Times owner Rupert Murdoch for gagging the damning financial data leak. The Paradise Papers investigation showed how the powerful and ultra-wealthy secretly invest vast amounts of cash in offshore tax havens, but it has been largely...

Boris Johnson has been dubbed a "f****** disgrace" by a senior Conservative MP, according to Channel 4's political correspondent Michael Crick. The Foreign Secretary has once again found himself in hot water after a colossal blunder in the Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe case. The British mum is being held in an Iranian prison following accusations by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard that she was plotting to overthrow the government. And she now may have her prison sentence extended thanks to a mistaken statement made by...