Budget cuts will make the next term for new councillors increasingly tough, new research has revealed, with spending by boroughs falling by a fifth over seven years. London’s authorities saw a 19 per cent fall in their budgeted expenditure (per head) between 2010/11 and 2017/18 (excluding education, public health and policing). ...
Q: When is it OK for Conservative councillors to post racist jokes about “brown” people being “lazy” “dogs”? A: When reinstating them helps Tories win a local council. LOL As certain disgruntled Labour Party figures join Conservatives and much of the media in portraying a Labour council victory (Labour up ...
"Being a Remainer and voting Labour is like being a vegetarian and ordering steak", was the meme making the rounds on social media before yesterday's local elections. And so it proved to be as the first results trickled in this morning. With UKIP all but obliterated across the country Labour ...
Nigel Farage is calling for a new referendum on the abolition of the House of Lords after the Government suffered set-backs on the Brexit process. Writing in the Telegraph, Mr Farage blasted the Lords for its intervention and suggested the House had "signed its own death warrant". He said: "By ...
The father of Game of Thrones star Rose Leslie has been suspended by the Tory party over non-payment of council tax. But Councillor Sebastian Leslie, who was revealed in December to be thousands of pounds in arrears, insists he is only defying the system to highlight a legal campaign. Until ...
A shift towards Liberal and Labour votes could leave the Conservatives facing an election wipe-out in the local elections today. According to political traders the Liberal Democrats could seize key seats in the poll, including a stronghold in Richmond. Labour currently hold control over 20 out of 32 boroughs in the capital, ...
After a week of repeated apologies to the victims of the Windrush scandal and assurances by Prime Minister Theresa May and Home Secretary Amber Rudd that they would not be facing any more deportations, we have discovered evidence of a special chartered removal flight to Jamaica next week. We know ...
Home Secretary Amber Rudd is facing increasing calls for her resignation after it emerged that as she was telling MPs that the Home Office has no targets for removals, the Home Office were confirming what many suffering from the Windrush scandal already knew, Home Office staff were under pressure to ...
Coalition head of civil service says Theresa May's anti-immigration policies were 'reminiscent of Nazi Germany' for Tory colleagues Jeremy Corbyn blames Theresa May for "hostile environment", saying her government is "both callous and incompetent" Theresa May says decision to dispose of Windrush 'registration slips' when she was Home Secretary was taken ...