The Labour Party features once again on the front page of the Evening Standard today for all the wrong reasons as George Osborne uses divisions over Brexit policy to put the boot in. Shadow Brexit Secretary Sir Keir Starmer is reported as saying the party is split down the middle ...
The UK has nine out of the ten poorest regions in northern Europe, with suggestions that the rapid industrial decline brought about under Margaret Thatcher is chiefly responsible for creating pockets of poverty in one of the World's richest economies. West Wales, Durham and Tees Valley, South Yorkshire and Northern Ireland ...
On 7 June, the UK Supreme Court will issue a ruling on Northern Ireland's restrictive abortion laws. The Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission (NIHRC) has argued that the law criminalises 'exceptionally vulnerable women.' Abortion is illegal in Northern Ireland except where the woman's life is at risk or there is ...
Brexit has allowed concrete issues to be "swept under the carpet" while we deal with abstract notions of sovereignty, The New European editor Matt Kelly has said. Speaking on Media Masters podcast Kelly said we are facing many real problems in society that are being ignored because of the ongoing debate ...
During his trip to London in 2005 to support the newly launched high-profile campaign #MakePovertyHistory, the late, great and hugely missed Nelson Mandela said, “Poverty is man-made and can, therefore, be unmade.” Today, 50 years after another great black civil rights leader, Martin Luther King, established the Poor People’s Campaign, ...
During yesterday’s PMQs Jeremy Corbyn highlighted the amount of family doctors who are leaving the profession. Worryingly he said that these essential medical staff are “leaving the profession in despair” at the pressures of the profession. Mr Corbyn said that four thousand GPs “have retired early in the past five ...
Jacob Rees Mogg has told his fellow MPs to respect their constituents' vote on Brexit, despite his area of Bath and North East Somerset voting overwhelmingly to remain in the European Union. The outspoken MP says the Conservative Central Office has launched "an effective campaign to hold to account MPs ...
In a desperate attempt to appeal to those closer to the cradle than the grave, the Tories are trying to widen their appeal to millenials. One idea that was floated was a discount deal at high street restaurant chain Nando's. However, a spokesman for Nando’s told said: “As a brand ...
What have the Conservatives got against the UK shipbuilding industry, asks GMB? GMB, the union for shipbuilding workers, says the Conservative Government must not be allowed to downgrade the Royal Navy any more by ‘sneaking’ out of their obligation to build three Royal Navy Auxiliary vessels. The Ministry of Defence today ...