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Labour MP Jo Cox was shot and killed in a mindless attack in West Yorkshire yesterday. Jo Cox, a 41-year-old mother of two, was shot three times and stabbed just before 1pm in Birstall in her Batley & Spen constituency. West Yorkshire Police have arrested a 52-year-old man, named locally as Thomas Mair. Jo was pronounced dead around an hour later, leaving her husband Brendan and two young children, aged 3 and 5. Mrs Cox’s husband, Brendan, made these comments...

By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor A shocking statistic has emerged that has found one in three migrants have been the target of verbal abuse while living in the UK, an average of twelve times each. Among migrants aged 16-24 the amount of abuse faced rises to 41 per cent. The abuse occurs despite most migrants being highly educated and highly skilled - 69% of migrants surveyed were in employment or education - and almost a third speak three or more languages. The...

By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor When your own dad denies your claims you know you are in trouble, and Brexiteer Michael Gove has just been caught in that net. The Guardian have reported that Gove’s own dad has denied claims his son came out with about his business interest in the fishing industry. It will be embarrassing for Michael Gove, who has made the claim on more than one occasion. Gove had said that his firm in Aberdeen which operated...

By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor This was the last PMQs before the referendum, what will the world be like on June 24th regardless of the result? Will there be pitched battles on the Thames, with rivals crashing their warships into each other? Nope, they were doing that outside of Parliament today just as PMQs kicked off. Farage’s barge of swashbuckling Brexiteers were floating their flotilla down the Thames. In retaliation Bob Geldof’s Remain rafts hired a huge vessel and various...

By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor Yes this isn't a "satire" article, this is happening right now on then Thames, the Brexit campaign sent a flotilla down the Thames and in retaliation Bob Geldof hired a huge barge and a small fleet of little "remain" boats to slip in and out of the Brexit boats. The motley crews floated past Parliament as PMQs kicked off in the Commons. Bob Geldof pulled up alongside HMS Farage and shouts, "FARAGE, YOU'RE A FRAUD!...

By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor In shocking news the Home Office have refused to release the number of women who have been raped or sexually assaulted inside Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre. According to The Independent the information won’t be shared with the public as it harms the “commercial interests” of the private organisations that run the controversial detention centre. It raises the question again of private contractors given highly sensitive roles looking after some of the most vulnerable people...

IN: Chuka Umunna (Labour MP for Streatham) Carolyn Fairburn (Director-General of the CBI) Rohan Silva (Tech entrepreneur) OUT: Daniel Hannan (Conservative MEP) Munira Mirza (Former Deputy Mayor for Health and Education) Jenny Jones (Green Party peer) On 7th June, the Royal Geographical Society in South Kensington staged a debate held by the Evening Standard and London First asking the big question for Londoners ahead of the 23rd June referendum- Is London better off In or Out of the European Union?...

Facebook will be ‘all video in five years says EMEA Vice President according to the social network's European vice president Nicola Mendelsohn. Talking today at the fifth annual Fortune Most Powerful Women International Summit, in London, Mendelsohn said people are writing less and posting more videos and images. She said: “In five years’ time it will definitely be mobile, it will probably be all video and it will certainly be more immersive – 360 will feel very common.” There has...

The Leave campaign has taken a big lead in the polls ahead of the EU referendum on 23rd June. Guardian/ICM polls report a six-point lead, with Leave now enjoying a 53 per cent - 47 per cent advantage once “don’t knows” are excluded. According to Prof John Curtice of Strathclyde University, the running average “poll of polls” would stand at 52 per cent for leave and 48 per cent for remain, the first time leave has been in such a...