Politics

Brexit dithering has cost Labour some 150,000 members and £6 million, according to party insiders. The number of paid-up activists now stands at around 385,000 - down from a peak of more 500,000 in 2017 -  amid fury at Jeremy Corbyn's Brexit stance, the Sunday Times has claimed. Sinking numbers has hit Labour's coffers to the tune of around £6 million. Corbyn has been caught between a rock and a hard place over Brexit. While the majority of its members back a second...

The fortunes of the world’s richest people rose by £2 billion a day last year, while the wealth of the poorest dwindled by 11 per cent. Some 3.4 billion people were forced to survive on less than £4.27 a day each according to new Oxfam research. The 26 richest people globally now hold the same wealth as the poorest half of the population – compared with the richest 43 in 2017. According to the Public Good or Private Wealth? study...

A groundbreaking investigation into public sector pensions has revealed the 22 individuals who run UK government departments have an annual average pot of £907,273. The TaxPayers’ Alliance (TPA) has today revealed the details of some of the most generous unfunded pensions in Whitehall, with Sir Simon McDonald, head of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, currently sitting on a pension pot valued at £1,858,000. Fourteen of the top government bureaucrats will also receive a huge lump sum payout in addition to their annual...

The campaign by activist collective Led By Donkeys is meant to highlight the predictions made by top politicians in the run up to Brexit.

Brexit has been blamed as one of the deciding factors behind a factory closure in Suffolk with 430 jobs at risk, the East Anglian Daily Times has revealed. Philips Avent will move most of its operations from its factory in Glemsford to Philips’ existing innovation and manufacturing site in Drachten, the Netherlands. The site manufactures products for the non-UK market, exports that will be put in jeopardy once the country leaves the EU single market. Staff were told that Brexit was...

The UK would vote to stay in the European Union by a huge 12 percentage points if it was given another vote, according to the latest poll. The results of the study show that 56 per cent would vote to stay in the EU and 44 per cent would vote to leave, excluding those who would not vote or didn’t know. It is the highest level since the Brexit referendum in 2016. In the June 23, 2016 referendum, 17.4 million...

Caroline Lucas has said there is "no sign" the Prime Minister is willing to compromise following talks this morning. Theresa May is holding discussions with MPs after her Brexit withdrawal plan was voted down in the House of Commons on Tuesday. She has urged politicians to put  self-interest aside and "work constructively together" on Brexit, but according to Green MP Lucas it seems she is not willing to show the same resolve. Posting on Twitter, Lucas said: "Just come out of...

There were dramatic scenes in the House of Commons as tempers frayed and MPs bayed loudly, but the hardline Brexiteers of the ERG party within the Tory Party and her DUP allies who had let the Prime Minister down last night, voted loyally to keep her in power. After suffering the worst parliamentary defeat by a British Prime Minister for at least a hundred years last night, Theresa May scraped through a vote of no confidence called by Jeremy Corbyn...

The Brexit backlash in today's national newspapers was eerily predicted by comedy sketch Little Britain over 15 years ago, TLE can reveal today. Theresa May was roundly lambasted on the front pages this morning, with the Telegraph leading with "A complete humiliation" and the i describing last night's vote as a "historic humiliation". The Guardian ran with "May suffers historic defeat as Tories turn against her", while The Sun called May's Brexit deal "dead as a dodo". It harks back to an early episode of Little Britain in which the...