Politics

SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon has said that Brexit is likely to mean Scotland will leave the Union. She was speaking at the SNP party conference and she blamed the chaotic Brexit negotiations as proof that Scotland would be better off as a stand alone country within the EU. She said: “Brexit is about turning inwards, pulling up the drawbridge, retreating from the world. Independence is about being open, outward looking, aspiring to play our full part in the world around...

Hillary Clinton launched an attack on the Tories during a speech at the University of Oxford. She was highly critical of the MEPs from the Party who she claims have not challenged Viktor Orban, Hungary’s leader. Recently the Conservative group at the European parliament voted against measures to censure Hungary over its policies to reduce judicial independence and boost control over the media. Orban eventually lost the vote by 448-197. She said: “I hope the EU and the people of...

Earlier this year the Conservatives became the laughing stock of the country after party figures show they received more money from the dead than they did from living people. But according to the latest figures, Brexit could be facing a similar dilemma. Alastair Campbell pointed out on Twitter today it has been so long since the referendum that not only has the will of the people changed but so has the people who voted in it. Some 1.3 million people...

MPs have enjoyed a 17 per cent hike in their salary over three terms of Conservative governance while the police, teachers and nurses have seen their earnings remain stagnant or drop. Figures currently making the rounds on social media show that a police starting salary has been reduced to £23,000 in 2018 from £24,000 when the Tories first came to power in 2010. Newly qualified teachers have seen a marginal increase of £500 in the last eight years, but fully...

Councillor Peter Bulman represents the Park ward of Tunbridge Wells Borough Council in the Royal Kent town, but lives a three-hour drive away in Holt, on the north Norfolk coast.

John Simpson has questioned what Britain has become following a shocking investigation that revealed there has been a soaring number of homeless deaths in the UK over the last 12 months. The journalist and author took to social media to lament “deeply shameful” statistics that show at least 449 homeless people died over the last year. That is almost double the number of people who died between 2013 and 2017. The figures produced by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ)...

The UK faces challenges that can only be solved through partnership. In its pre-Budget letter to the Chancellor, the CBI proposes ways to unlock enterprise, increase the country’s competitiveness and attract more investors, all aimed at lifting productivity and sharing prosperity. This is particularly important as the UK has the lowest level of business investment as a proportion of GDP in the G7, with the gap widening even further. To set the UK on the right path, Carolyn Fairbairn, the...

With Brexit negotiations entering a crucial stage reports of wealthy Brexiters who pay vast sums to gain access to the Prime Minster have been making the rounds on social media. Lord Ashcroft, Jacob Rees-Mogg’s business partner, and two of the biggest donors to the Brexit campaign have had Theresa May’s ear over the last year. The wealthy group of campaigners part with £50,000 apiece for the privilege of joining the PM and other senior figures from the Conservative Party at...

“If the unpaid time I spent working on this film manages to raise Ben Bradley MP’s profile on social media, then it will have been unpaid time well spent.”