Politics

Almost 100 taken to court by local authorities for social care debt during past two years according to GMB study An investigation by GMB, the union for carers, has revealed more than 21,000 people in the South East are trapped in debt for their social care. The Freedom of Information requests, submitted to every authority in the region  submitted to every authority in the region  with responsibility for social care, also shows almost 100 people have been taken to court...

One of the major financial backers of the Brexit campaign, Arron Banks, is said to have held meetings with the Russian Ambassador on three occasions, in the run up to the EU referendum vote. Additionally he flew out to Moscow to look at potential business plans in Russia. These revelations have come to light in The Sunday Times and The Observer via a series of leaked e-mails. 40,000 emails are said to have been obtained by journalist Isabel Oakeshott. Banks had...

Nigel Farage has lashed out at the Brexit process and thinks it could make the UK worse off, if the negotiations do not improve, laying the blame squarely at Theresa May’s doorstep. It comes after a tough couple of days for the May, where rebellions over Brexit from both David Davis and Boris Johnson undermined her and even risked her premiership. Farage told the Today programme: "We have the got wrong leader. If we had a leader who actually believed...

With three weeks to go until crunch Brexit talks in Brussels, and the Conservative Government accused of spending more time negotiating with itself than the EU, the freight industry warned that Britain was heading towards a road block scenario – quite literally. Theresa May’s disunited Brexit team were accused of “playing chicken with crucial parts of the British economy.” The UK’s leading logistics trade body warned that it had lost confidence in the Government’s ability to deliver a ‘frictionless’ Brexit...

Theresa May had just battled through possibly the hardest 24 hours of her premiership, only for her plans to be snubbed by the EU. May had dealt with a major rebellion, from within her own party, and somehow managed to put together a Brexit plan to take to the EU, only for it to be turned down. The PM hoped that a temporary customs arrangement would be accepted by the EU, but Michel Barnier, the EU’s chief negotiator, said it...

Boris Johnson has warned that there will be a Brexit meltdown in Britain with exit talks approaching a "moment of truth". The Foreign Secretary has recently called for "guts" in negotiations with the EU and has dismissed concerns over the Irish Border in public. But recordings from a private dinner seem to paint a different picture. BuzzFeed News revealed today that the Brexiteer said: “You've got to face the fact there may now be a meltdown. OK? I don't want...

David Davis is favourite to leave Theresa May's cabinet next. Odds on the Brexit Minister resigning plummeted from from 8/1 to 2/1 today. With cabinet tensions over customs plans reported to be boiling over, Davis looks to be in line to go next according to the latest betting data. May has also been cut into 5/1 from 6/1 to hold her hands up and step down before anyone else in the government, while Chris Grayling has come in from 6/1 to...

New figures have revealed that nearly four million adults in the UK have been forced to use food banks as poverty grips Britain. The research, which comes hot heels of revelations leaked yesterday that Britain has nine out of the ten poorest regions in Northern Europe, found there to be "shocking" levels of deprivation across the country, with experts warning that social security policy changes under the Tory government were leading to “destitution by design”. The exclusive poll commissioned by The Independent...

With Theresa May looking more vulnerable than ever, she cut a sorry figure at Prime Minister’s Questions today. “Just like our shambolic privatised railways, this government’s incompetence threatens our economy, businesses, jobs and our communities,” said the Labour Leader, referencing the Northern Rail franchise shambles. “So, my question to the prime minister is this,” added Jeremy Corbyn, “Which will last longer, the Northern rail franchise or her premiership?” Accused of having wasted more energy negotiating with her own fiercely divided...