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By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor The BMA (British Medical Association) said that strike action next month will be an “all out strike” for the first time in the history of the National Health Service. This escalation in industrial action will mean junior doctors will not be providing any form of emergency care, for two days in a row. The move will anger the Conservative Party and worry patient safety groups. It is also a huge gamble for the junior doctors,...

By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor The old saying is keep your friends close and your enemies closer. I guess it is easier just to make everyone your enemy, then you don’t have to worry where anybody is; takes the pressure off, I suppose. It wasn’t supposed to be this way for Labour today; the Conservative party is crawling from disaster to disaster. The Tories are almost literally taking wheelchairs away from disabled people. Then coming back the next day to...

By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor It should have been David Cameron's worst PMQs since he became PM, but it wasn't to be. A spreadsheet of Labour MPs and their level of hostility to their own Leader emerged, and was used by Cameron throughout the session. Labour MP John Woodcock was labelled on the list as "hostile" to Corbyn, and from this tweet (he has since deleted)  you can see why. Parental advisory explicit lyrics. Here's the deleted tweet for those...

By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor A Government commissioned report has found that woman are still discriminated against at work. The research found that nearly 400,000 women have unfairly suffered at work, due to their gender. 75 per cent of pregnant women and new mothers experience discrimination at work and one in nine lose their job as a result they found. Even though pregnancy discrimination is illegal it has risen since 2005, when 45 per cent of women suffered from such discrimination....

By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor UKIP leader Nigel Farage has come under fire and been called “disgusting” for “cheap political point scoring,” after he used the carnage in Brussels to back his Brexit campaign. The controversial figure has been branded as “disgusting” for using the deadly Brussels attacks as a reason to quit the European Union. He was called “shameless Brexit scum” after he retweeted a message on Twitter whilst explosions were killing scores of people in the Belgian capital. Allison...

By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor Yesterday Osborne sent his deputy David Gauke to take the hits from the House of his Budget statement. Cowardly George didn’t fancy facing any dissent. Gauke failed to give an answer to how the black hole left by the scrapping of disability benefit cuts would be filled, under sustained attack from opposition MPs. There is now a £4.4bn black hole to fill. Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell was on fine form as he laid into the...

By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor Dennis Skinner demolished the Chancellor in the Commons with one of his classic one-liners. The 84-year-old  MP let nobody down with his latest attack on the Tories. He ended with the classic line: "It’s 8 budgets for Osborne already, only cats have 9 lives." Even the PM chortled. Thanks to Cameron, Skinner is still going strong in parliament. When asked why he hasn’t thrown in the towel, Skinner said: "Mainly because Cameron told me to retire." Watch...

By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor Europe was rocked again this morning after a series of explosions across the Belgian capital Brussels. There were two explosions at around 08:00 (07:00 GMT) at Zaventem airport as people queued to check in. Belgian broadcaster VRT says at least 13 people were killed and 35 were wounded at the airport Shots were heard before the explosions, and shouts in Arabic, which appear to have struck near the American Airlines and Brussels Airline check in...

By Oli Ward @oli_ward_1 Obama arrived in Havana on Sunday for the beginning of historic talks with Cuban President Raul Castro. One issue certain to be on the discussion table will be the territorial handover of Guantanamo Bay, the correctional U.S. facility on the South-East of the island. While the U.S has an indefinite lease on the territory, paying Cuba $4,000 a year in rent, thawing US-Cuban relations and Obama's final attempts to close the facility mean the handover of Guantanamo...