Politics

The Conservative party has suspended 14 members for posting Islamophobic or racist comments on internet amid accusations of "insititutional Islamophobia" in the party. Accusations of racism and Islamophobia have dogged the Tory Party in recent years amid calls for an inquiry.  Yesterday the Tory Party came under criticism for allowing an activist suspended for "vile" racist comments to stand as a councillor.  Peter Lamb is to sand as a councillor for Harlow District Council in May. He had been suspended...

The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, Amber Rudd has announced changes to the disability assessments in order to receive Personal Independent Payment (PIP) and Universal Credit (UC). From spring around 270,000 disabled pensioners will not have their personal independence payment (PIP) awards regularly reviewed. During a speech at disability charity Scope's offices today, announcements include: • A new system from 2021 to allow people to share evidence between Universal Credit (UC) and Personal Independent Payment (PIP) • A...

Theresa May has come under fire from the Police Federation after she claimed that cuts to police funding has nothing to do with the increase in knife crime.  In England there has been a 93 per cent rise in knife attacks involving young people. Theresa May vowed to tackle the causes of knife crime by addressing the issues which led “so many young people” to weapons. However, she said there was “no direct correlation between certain crimes and police numbers”....

Emmanuel Macron didn’t hold anything back in his open letter regarding Brexit. He published his words in 22 EU languages and didn’t leave anyone in doubt about his fears over the Uk's withdrawl from the European project. Macron said that Brexit was as “irresponsible lie” and the worst crisis Europe has had to deal with since the end of the Second World War. He said the Brexit was peddled by 'anger mongers and fake news' and 'offers nothing'.  Macron’s fiery...

Controversial Brexiteer Arron Banks has won a planning battle against residents he described as "bleeding her liberals" and "rich soft Tories". The Leave.EU campaigner is director of a development company which wants to build six luxury homes in Bath, Somerset. Construction began a year ago but was suddenly halted in December when the contractor went into administration. Arron Banks - Credit:SWNS Residents then objected to the buildings, claiming some were bigger than the plans stated and others were in the...

The government was forced to postpone the Financial Services Bill today after an official calculation showed its working majority has officially been cut to zero. Ministers took the decision to postpone the bill just hours before before it was due to be debated and voted on by MPs. The legislation, which is crucial to ensuring major financial institutions can continue to operate in the event of a no-deal Brexit, will now have to be re-scheduled for debate in the Commons...

Daniel Janner QC made the comments before the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse began hearing evidence from alleged victims of a paedophile sex ring.

An anti-litter group, which created the bin to encourage smokers to discard of butts properly, poses the question "Does the prospect of a hard Brexit worry you?"

Local councils are being forced to sell off libraries, playgrounds and public buildings to pay for austerity-induced cuts and redundancies, a Huff Post investigation has revealed. With local government funding increasingly strangled a major examination has revealed councils have been forced to raise a total of £9.1 billion from selling property since 2014/15. One in six councils in England used a total of £381 million to pay for cost cutting and almost a third of that – £115 million – was...