Politics

The Labour Party is making up ground in the Peterborough by-election with odds on Lisa Forbes to win plummeting from 7/1 to 5/1 today. Fifteen candidates are facing voters at the ballot box on Thursday in a contest that will have wide political ramifications. The election of a new MP came about after local people effectively sacked their former Member of Parliament, Fiona Onasanya in a recall petition. Labour won a 48 per cent share of the vote in the...

More than half of Change UK’s MPs have walked from the party following disastrous EU elections, it has been confirmed. Six of the 11 MPs have quit the party with Heidi Allen and Chukka Umunna among them. Anna Soubry, who has been elected the new party leader, said she was "deeply disappointed" by the revelations. Change UK was formed earlier this year by 11 MPs who quit Labour and the Conservatives. Sarah Wollaston, Angela Smith, Luciana Berger and Gavin Shuker...

Donald Trump has confirmed that the NHS will be on the table in a post-Brexit trade deal. Speaking at a press conference today the US President said: "When you're dealing in trade everything is on the table. So NHS or anything else, a lot more than that, but everything will be on the table, absolutely." https://twitter.com/mikegalsworthy/status/1135916902750928896 The comments come just days after US ambassador to the UK, Woody Johnson caused uproar by making similar suggestions, and Trump's comments are likely...

The US President didn’t hold back when discussing the Labour leader today. He was conducting a news conference, alongside Theresa May, when he let rip at Corbyn. He labelled him a ‘negative force’ in UK politics and said he rejected a request from Corbyn to meet. Speaking in the Foreign Office after holding talks with Mrs May, Mr Trump said: 'He (Corbyn) wanted to meet with me and I said no.' He continued: 'I really don't like critics as much...

As the US President and his entourage headed down the Mall to visit the Queen he might well have expected thousands of people there to see him. Perhaps adoring fans would wave flags to welcome his arrival? However, it didn’t turn out the way as the following tweets will show. It seems that the people of London had better things to do today and police numbers appear to have outnumbered supporters. A holiday mood as tens of thousands of Londoners...

Brexit Party leader, Nigel Farage, has defended comments made by Ann Widdecombe regarding sexual conversion. She had said that science could one day find a way to “find a solution” so gay people could become heterosexual. In an interview with ITV’s Good Morning Britain today, Farage refused to condemn Widdecombe’s views. Farage said: “In a free society tolerance needs to be a two-way street and I do think – I really do think – that devout Christians should be allowed...

Activity across UK building firms fell last month, driven by a sharp decline in commercial construction and civil engineering, according to data firm Markit. Commercial building was the weakest sector, with output falling to the greatest extent since September 2017.  Survey respondents said that clients had opted to hold back on major spending decisions in response to Brexit uncertainty. Civil engineering also fell for a fourth straight month, the longest run since the first half of 2013. Duncan Brock, group...

"Gove and Johnson, Johnson didn't even want to leave, they jumped on the back of it because they knew Cameron would have to go if he lost it."

A statue of Donald Trump tweeting on the toilet has taken the centre stage in Trafalgar Square as protests in the capital get underway. The US President arrived in the UK yesterday and was greeted by a giant penis protest on the route in as Air Force One landed at Stansted Airport. The legendary Baby Blimp also took to the skies today as protesters from around the country prepare to descend on the capital, but an effigy of Trump tweeting...