Politics

Staff regularly fork out to feed pupils who don’t get enough to eat at home according to new survey Almost one in 10 school staff brings food in from home to feed kids who would otherwise go hungry, a shocking study has found. They surveyed thousands of classroom based school support staff up and down the country - 8 per cent of whom felt they have to spend their own money on food for hungry children. Staff report children coming to...

Would be Conservative Party leader Jacob Rees-Mogg has found himself in the centre of a racism storm, over comments he made at the Tory Party conference. Mr Rees-Mogg made the controversial comments at a pro-Brexit rally in Birmingham last night. He said: All the countries who are least interested in their people call themselves ‘people's’, don’t they? “So the People’s Republic of China? Oh, that’s communist. “And the People’s Republic of Jam Jar, or something like that, of Libya, was what it...

A barrier outside the Conservative Party Conference has been making the rounds on social media today ahead of the Conservative Party Conference. Delegates convened yesterday for the first day of the annual meeting in Birmingham with several big issues on the agenda. But despite international issues such as Brexit dominating most of the headlines it was opportunities at home that grabbed most attention on social media. A tweet by Channel 4 correspondent Ciaran Jenkins went viral after the reporter spotted...

Administrators that run an anti-EU group on Facebook were left red faced after a poll created to gauge the nation's appetite for leaving the union returned a strong Remain consensus.  The poll, posted on "Nigel Farage - Leave Means Leave", garnered almost a million votes since it was posted on 22nd September. It asked members of the anti-EU group how they would vote in a second referendum "knowing what you know", but returned a shocking outcome.  Some 63 per cent...

Patrick Kielty’s family are sadly well aware of the price of instability in Northern Ireland.

If Michael Gove is serious about taking back control he must put England’s water back in public hands, says GMB Union Shock findings show that almost three quarters of England’s water industry is currently owned from overseas. At least 71% of shares in England’s nine privatised water companies are owned by organisations from overseas including the super-rich, banks, hedge funds, foreign governments and businesses based in tax havens. The revelations showed the need to end the scandal of water privatisation...

In an unusual move head teachers have protested against cuts from school budgets. They large group gathered in Parliament Square before converging on Downing Street, where a delegation delivered a letter to Phillip Hammond over what they say are "unsustainable" funding cuts. Figures from the Institute for Fiscal Studies which show that funding per pupil fell by 8% between 2010 and 2018. Compared to last year, England's schools have 137,000 more pupils but 5,400 fewer teachers, and 2,800 fewer teaching...

Boris Johnson has used his Telegraph article to attack, not for the first time, the PM and her Brexit plan. He called May’s Chequers plan “"a moral and intellectual humiliation for this country" that will "cheat the electorate" if implemented. Writing in the Daily Telegraph, Johnson, over 4,500 words, said: "This is the moment to change the course of the negotiations and do justice to the ambitions and potential of Brexit. "There has been a collective failure of government, and...

A Tory councillor is facing calls to resign after tweeting he 'bought two of the staff' at a slavery museum - and said abortion clinics in Liverpool were a form of 'crime prevention.' Controversial Bob Frost, a Conservative councillor for North Deal, Kent, was lambasted for his series of unsavoury tweets, and branded racist by his local rival. Cllr Frost has been accused of racism and insensitivity for making disparaging remarks over the weekend - while the Labour Party Conference...