Politics

The DVLA will be auctioning off COR87N (Corbyn) at its first sale of 2019, which takes place in Chesterfield on Wednesday

A video of a Leave-voting expat who bought his Spanish holiday home after the referendum has been making the rounds on social media after he realised an end to free movement would apply to him too. Dave, who bought a holiday home in Spain after voting to leave, says he would vote to remain if there was a second referendum. Explaining the reasons behind his change of heart, he said freedom of movement in Europe for "proper Europeans" was among...

It has been some time in coming but eventually the Conservative Party has accepted that there is a link between the roll-out of Universal Credit and the increase usage of food banks, by those in desperate need of basic food and living supplies. Amber Rudd accepted that huge increase in food bank usage has, in some part, been caused by UC. Until today senior Tories have flatly denied that this was the case. The number of emergency food parcels handed...

Theresa May wrote to Jeremy Corbyn last night and rejected the Labour leader's call for the UK to stay in a permanent customs union with the EU. She has effectively ruled out Labour’s ideas for a compromise Brexit plan. The PM stressed her objections to keeping the UK in some form of customs union, as this would prevent the UK making its own trade deals. This decision comes as business groups are warning that with under than 50 days to...

The ONS (Office for National Statistics) reported that the growth in 2018 was 1.4% down from 1.8% in 2017. Even more worryingly this is the lowest rate since 2012. According to the ONS, quarterly growth also slowed, falling to 0.2% in the three months to December - down from 0.6% in the three months to September. A decline in car production and factory output were some of the main factors that caused the slower growth. Head of GDP at the...

Conservative MP Christopher Chope who recently scuppered legislation against 'upskirting' - filming up women's skirts - has now blocked a bill to safeguard children from female genital mutilation (FGM). This bill was also a private members bill, and yet again Chope used parliamentary practice to object to a second reading of the bill in the House of Commons today.  The 71 year-old MP for Christchurch was rounded on for his latest "inhumane" intervention. Anti-FGM campaigner Nimco Ali said the Tory...

The government is preparing for "riots on the streets" in a No Deal Brexit , the former head of the UK civil service has declared. Lord Kerslake also said the UK is not ready to leave the European Union and pleaded for Article 50 to be delayed. He told the BBC: "It's unnecessary. "The government could stop this now. "I think they could say we think, as many of the cabinet have already said privately, that no deal Brexit is simply not a realistic...

The Bank of England seems to be losing faith in Britain’s economic strength and has slashed its outlook for the country yesterday as it opted to leave interest rates on hold. The bank expects growth this year to be just 1.2% - the slowest since 2009 when the economy was in recession. Bank of England Governor Mark Carney said: "The fog of Brexit is causing short term volatility in the economic data, and more fundamentally, it is creating a series...

The Bank of England has downgraded its growth forecast for 2019 growth to 1.2%, which would be the smallest rise since 2009. Sterling tumbled on the news and was trading 0.6% down versus the US dollar at $1.285. Against the euro, the pound was down 0.3% at €1.134. The PM flew to Brussels today to push for concessions from EU leaders on the divorce deal agreed with them last year, which has been rejected by Parliament. Both Mr Tusk and...