Politics

Biggest November drop since 2012, with former hotspots hit hardest, says Rightmove The richest parts of the UK are feeling the brunt of the fall in property prices, according to website Rightmove. It is the biggest drop since November 2012. House prices have dipped over £5,000 on average. The biggest falls were in London, where the typical asking price fell by £10,793 (a fall of 1.7%) and in the south-east of England, where prices were down £8,647 (2.1%). “Higher-end, former...

Jeremy Corbyn's Labour party has taken a three-point lead over the Tories according to a poll for the Observer .  The Conservative Party have dropped down to 36% a drop of five points. Labour has increased three to hit 39 per cent. UKIP has gone to 8 per cent, a two point rise and the Liberal Democrats are on 7, a fall of one point. It appears the issues over the EU Brexit deal have damaged the faith in the Conservative...

Ever since details started emerging of Theresa May's Brexit deal, the enemies in her party started briefing that it was only a matter of time before she would be thrown under a bus. For two night in a row she has made a defiant statement to the press, last night insisting to journalists, many of whom had turned up expecting a resignation, that she was "not in denial" about the prospects of getting her Brexit deal through parliament. Despite a...

The economic fears and insecurities that led to Brexit are likely to be compounded when the UK leaves the union, a UN investigation has found. The UN’s Rapporteur into Extreme Poverty and Human Rights in the UK, Philip Aston, said no matter what outcome Brexit achieves, other than the Utopian one which is most unlikely to happen,  Britain will be left worse off economically. There’s going to be a fall in GDP, there’s going to be a fall in tax...

Women have been the hardest hit by government cuts to social services and welfare, a UN investigation has revealed. The UN’s Rapporteur into Extreme Poverty and Human Rights Philip Aston found reductions in social care services translate to an increased burden on primary caregivers who are disproportionately women. Releasing the interim findings of his investigation he pointed to a remarkable gender dimension of many of the Conservative reforms. He said: “If you had got a group of misogynists in a...

Drastic cuts to social support and welfare risk damaging the very fabric of British society, a UN report has today revealed. Concluding his 12-day visit to the country the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Philip Alston, said the UK Government’s policies are entrenching high levels of poverty and inflicting unnecessary misery in one of the richest countries in the world. Yet amid the country’s impending exit from the European Union the government appears to be treating...

A Youth MP from Camden said knife crime is "rooted in poverty, inequality and a lack of opportunity" in an impassioned interview on ITV news. Athian Akec delivered a rousing speech to UK Youth Parliament last week which has since been picked up by major news outlets. In the House of Commons, he said: "As knife crime claims more lives within our country, never has so much been lost by so many because of the indecision of so few". Following up on...

The 48 letters from Conservative MPs needed to trigger avote of no confidence in Theresa May’s leadership have been submitted to the1922 Committee, a single -sourced Reuters Brexit editor is reporting. Their BrexitCentral editor cites a source who he insists is always reliable. https://twitter.com/isaby/status/1063355124003848192 "Unconfirmed and from a single (always previously reliable) source - but hearing that the 48 letters are in and Downing Street are preparing for a no confidence motion in Theresa May as Conservative leader..." tweeted Reuters'...

"The British public just want us to get on with it" the Prime Minister told a hastily assembled press conference, this evening, looking exhausted and shaken. Yes, a Sky Data poll today revealed that of the three options that Theresa May yesterday said are open to the country, staying in the EU would be the mostpopular, with her Brexit deal the least popular - if the government were tohold a three-option referendum of the type favoured by Justine Greening. https://twitter.com/EdConwaySky/status/1063103459619147776...