Politics
Outrage as Tory backs Farage knighthood after claim he was offered it for Brexit Party election pact
The Conservative party has strenuously denied offering the Brexit Party leader an honour in return for standing candidates down during the election.
UK is becoming 51st state of the US under Tories, MP claims
Kenny MacAskill claimed ‘the only way’ for Scots to avoid this was by becoming an independent state in the European Union.
Labour leadership race heats up as party in-fighting continues
David Lammy has given the clearest indication yet that he is mulling entering the contest to replace Jeremy Corbyn as leader
Former Labour leader Ed Miliband to spearhead inquest into election defeat
The review will include interviewing all 59 MPs who lost their seats during the crumbling of Labour’s so-called “red wall” of constituencies in the North, the Midlands and Wales.
Tory grandees plot boundary shake-up to win 100-seat majority at next election
Senior party figures want Boris Johnson to bring forward plans to reduce the number of MPs from 650 to 600 - which could hand him a 104 seat majority.
Government risking repeating Brexit mistakes on Irish unity, senator says
Fianna Fail and Fine Gael have stated they do not believe it is the right time for any border poll on reunification.
Ex-speaker John Bercow should be given peerage, says successor Sir Lindsay Hoyle
The newly-installed Speaker said a seat in the House of Lords ‘should be offered’ to the controversial figure.
Rory Stewart’s micro manifesto for London
The independent candidate talks to The London Economic about his bid to become mayor of a city of 700 villages.
Momentum founder ‘advising’ Labour leadership hopeful Rebecca Long-Bailey
It is also claimed the MP over-egged the origins of her inspiration to get into politics.