Politics

A wave of support for Boris Johnson to be the next leader of the Conservative Party has come crashing on the bookies, with odds slashed to 9/2 from 6/1 today. Johnson is now the number one contender for Theresa May’s job, ahead of ally and current Environment Secretary Michael Gove and Home Secretary Sajid Javid, who are joint second favourites at 6/1. Staunch Brexiteer backbencher Jacob Rees-Mogg sits further back at 13/2, having been as short as 5/1 to replace...

Brexit charity Here for Good has criticised the government for failing to provide certainty on the rights of EU citizens following the launch of their second comprehensive self-help guide. Co-authored pro-bono by two leading immigration and public law firms - Wesley Gryk LLP and Bindmans LLP – the guide answers many of the questions asked by EU citizens over their future status in the UK. It criticised the government for not giving any clarity over rights in over two years...

A prank tweet to Donald Trump has gone viral after it caused outrage amongst American Republicans. The old photo shows "Wee Jimmy Krankie" sporting a Make America Great Again cap with a plea to get the school to overturn a decision to remove the hat. The tweet by Bri Spong Un says Jimmy is a "huge fan and a retweet might make the school let him wear his cap". Although Trump has yet to retweet the photo it has caused...

Boris Johnson’s trip to Afghanistan during a crucial vote on expanding Heathrow airport cost taxpayers at least £20,000, according to newly released documents from the Foreign Office. A Freedom of Information Request submitted by The Ferret revealed that the cost for three members of staff who accompanied the former Foreign Secretary totalled £19,366. But the department refused to disclose the details of flight and security costs of Mr Johnson himself, saying the information would be published in due course as...

This is because families still have the final say and presuming consent means they are much less likely to think this is what their loved ones would have wanted.

Former Carillion boss Mark Davies has been appointed as the managing director for the HS2 joint venture between Balfour Beatty and VINCI. The project is one of the world's largest construction projects with billions of pounds-worth of contracts put up for the first phase between West Midlands and London.  Davies joined Carillion in 2008 and rose to managing director of its UK Infrastructure business until the firm went bust in January 2018. The liquidation cost hundreds of jobs and was the most...

A Brexit-led spoof of the Titanic is going viral on social media. The animation, created by Josh Pappenheim, depicts the famed sinking scene and includes politicians from across the spectrum.  It leads with Boris Johnson's speech that "Brexit means Brexit, and we are going to make a Titanic success of it", before cutting to the sinking of the ship as shown in its namesake film.  David Cameron stars alongside Nigel Farage, Michael Gove and Theresa May. Jeremy Corbyn gets a...

UK unemployment fell by 65,000 to 1.36 million in three months to June - the lowest for more than 40 years. They also show a rise in productivity, but a slowdown in wage growth. The official figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) on unemployment revealed that: 5% unemployment in London is near record low (persons aged 16-64, April-June 2018), driven in particular by fewer young people and fewer women out of work. The young person (18-24 year old) unemployment...

Jeremy Corbyn has faced fresh calls to stand down following controversy over a visit to a cemetery in Tunisia in 2014.  Sajid Javid called for the Labour leader to quit after the Daily Mail claimed he was photographed holding a wreath near the graves of those responsible for the massacre of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics. The calls from the Conservative front bench come a week after former Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson compared women in burqas to "letter boxes"...