Politics

Labour MP Jess Phillips received a rapturous response in parliament after she lamented the proposed £30,000 salary test for immigrants. The government published a heavily-delayed immigration White Paper last month setting out requirements for workers hoping to move to the UK. In what Sajid Javid described as the "biggest shakeup to the UK immigration system in a generation", workers from across the world would be subject to the £30,000 minimum salary threshold in order to prove they are "skilled" in their trade. The...

Investment in the UK car sector has dropped by almost £2 billion in three years as Brexit fears put firms on "red alert", the industry's trade body said. In 2015, car manufacturers invested £2.5 billion in the UK. Since then it has fallen ever year and in 2018 was just £589 million. The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) say the fall-off in inward investment is down to Brexit uncertainty, which has "done enormous damage" according to SMMT chief Mike Hawes....

A major new report has found refusals of Freedom of Information requests are at record levels. According to the Institute for Government (IfG) think tank government departments refused to give any information in response to almost half (45 per cent) of FOI requests in the first quarter of 2018. Analysis of the data shows the first three quarters of 2018 had the highest proportion of requests withheld in part or in full – more than half – since the introduction...

The Tab Hull editor Christian Calgie, 21, wrote a comment piece for the website and hit out at the behaviour of Young Conservatives

Gerard Batten has claimed just 100 lorries cross the Republic of Ireland–United Kingdom border a day and that Guinness accounts for half of them in an astonishing Twitter rant. The UKIP leader was responding to a James O'Brien segment on LBC radio discussing why Brexiters hate the Irish backstop so much. O'Brien said: "How can it be that the people saying the solution is easy - 'oh we just need some cameras' - are the same people who say we couldn't possibly...

Boris Johnson and Dominic Raab were both spectacularly shut down on live television last night. The former Foreign Secretary was dubbed "deluded" by Sky News reporter Beth Rigby after he insisted Prime Minister Theresa May is now in a position to “go to Brussels and get the freedom clause that the UK needs.” The incredulous Rigby interjected: “Just as she rides off on her unicorn to Brussels, the reality check landed in my phone, this is from ’s spokesperson: ‘The backstop is...

Historian Rutger Bregman visited Davos and did not hold back on his thoughts about the super rich. He called out 'stupid philanthropy schemes' Bregman said that the real issue that needs tackling to make a fairer playing field is tax avoidance. He said: 'We can invite Bono once more but come on we've got to be talking about taxes ... all the rest is bullshit in my opinion,' he says. Bregaman said he feels like he’s ‘at a firefighters conference...

In a historic night in which MPs tabled motions on Brexit, they voted for an amendment jointly tabled by a Conservative and a Labour MP to prevent a no deal Brexit. Dame Caroline Spelman (Conservative) and Jack Dromey's (Labour) amendment was non-binding but was won by  318 to 310. The amendment was to prevent a "no-deal" Brexit with a motion that Parliament "rejects the United Kingdom leaving the European Union without a Withdrawal Agreement and a Framework for the Future...

MPs voted against Labour MP Yvette Cooper’s amendment which attempted to stop the possibility of a no deal Brexit happening. The motion was voted against by 298 to 321 votes.  The Labour MP’s amendment had the support of the Labour leadership and some Conservative MPs as it tried to stop the UK crashing out of the EU in an eventuality that the majority of MPs are convinced would be incredibly damaging for the UK economy by giving Parliament time to...