Politics

Police chiefs in England and Wales are considering taking unprecedented legal action against the government in order to block plans to deduct hundreds of millions of pounds from their budgets, the Guardian has revealed. The National Police Chiefs Council has sent a formal letter to the Treasury saying it will seek a judicial review of the government’s proposals after the Treasury recalculated the money each force needed to pay into the police pension scheme. It landed forces with a £420...

Conservative councillors were left dumbfounded after a word cloud created for the Edinburgh 2050 campaign returned “Tory Free” as one of the people’s hopes for the future. The 2050 vision campaign was launched two years ago as an initiative to help shape the future of the Scottish capital by inviting residents to share their hopes for the future. But local Tory councillors were displeased when “Tory free” came up as one of the city’s primary aspirations. The Conservative group on...

Craig Mackinlay, 52, and his two assistants are said to have spent more than double the legal limit to see off the former UKIP leader's bid to win the South Thanet seat in Kent

George Osborne has admitted government mistakes led to Brexit, saying they were wrong to “play into the debate that everything that Brussels did was a challenge and a battle and was wrong”. Talking to the BBC’s Newsnight the former Chancellor said he has a series of "regrets" about his time in office, saying Remain supporters had explained the benefits of EU membership "too late". He said the Tories had got things wrong on immigration policy which "opened up the door...

I don't know how the Government have the cheek to say austerity is over then deliver this budget with a straight face says GMB Union Chancellor Philip Hammond’s budget has been ‘more trick than treat’ after Amazon were given a free pass until 2020 at least and school children were handed a pittance. The Chancellor announced a new digital services tax which gives the likes of Amazon a free pass until at least 2020. Meanwhile the UK’s desperately under-funded education system was...

Philip Hammond’s budget, which was billed as marking an end to austerity, will actually benefit rich families 14 times more than the poor, new analysis has revealed. The Resolution Foundation crunched the numbers on the latest budget finding almost half of the income tax are set to go to the top ten per cent of households. Households in the top cohort will gain £410 from income tax and benefits changes announced yesterday, whereas those in the poorest ten per cent...

Hammond’s Brexit 50p will be worth less than yesterday’s 50p. - As Hammond delivered his budget statement the pound fell again on world markets, 0.2% on the dollar.

Today the Danske Bank whistleblower, Mr. Howard Wilkinson, was informed by Danske Bank that the secrecy agreement the Bank required him to sign in 2014 has been partially waived.  Mr. Wilkinson has been granted permission to testify before the European and Danish Parliaments, and to provide information to the U.S. Department of Justice, and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission concerning the money $230 billion money laundering scheme for which Danske Bank participated in. Stephen M Kohn from Kohn, Kohn...

Controversial rapper, and friend of Donald Trump, Kayne West has helped to design a range of clothing to persuade black Americans to turn away from the Democratic Party. The range is to support YouTube star and TV pundit Candace Owens' Blexit campaign, which has been referred to “a frequency for those who have released themselves from the political orthodoxy”. Owens told Page Six: “Blexit is a renaissance and I am blessed to say that this logo, these colours, were created by...