Politics

Boris Johnson was given a dressing down by Speaker of the House of Commons John Bercow for sexist remarks aimed at Emily Thornberry today in parliament. The Foreign Secretary used Thornberry's husband's title to address his shadow counterpart, calling her a "noble and learned lady" in a condescending spat at the Labour front bench. He said: "Say no said the noble and learned lady the Baroness whatever it is", before being helped out by his Conservative colleagues. Bercow was quick to intervene following...

The Great British public would re-elect a Tory government if Theresa May were to call a snap election today, according to the latest odds move from Betway. Betting on the outcome of the next general election has swung in favour of the Conservative Party for the first time since the UK voted for Brexit, with the odds being cut from evens to 5/6. Jeremy Corbyn, who’s now 7/4 favourite to be the next party leader to resign, is leading a...

Bungling council officials were today accused of 'taking the p' when it emerged they had mis-spelt the name of the parish of Tiptree in Essex - as TITREE. Tiptree is famed for its iconic Wilkin jam will be holding an election for a new council on May 3, for which polling cards are being distributed between today and April 3. The Tiptree parish council took to social media to slam the Tiptree borough council, and said on Twitter: "This is...

A whistleblower has come forward to claim that the campaign to leave the EU, during the Brexit vote, was illegal. Shahmir Sanni who for worked for BeLeave, accused Vote Leave of bypassing spending limits, by funnelling cash into the BeLeave campaign, as a way to get around the Electoral Commission’s funding rules. Sanni told Channel 4 News that he ‘knows that Vote Leave cheated’ and that the outcome of the ‘referendum wasn’t legitimate’. Mr Sanni claimed: ‘In effect they used...

Workers in Bathford have demanded answers from local MP Jacob Rees-Mogg after the decision was made to ship production of the UK's new blue passports to Europe. GMB, the union for De La Rue workers, is demanding Jacob Rees-Mogg stand up for workers at the firm which currently make British passports - from attack by his own Government. De La Rue which has a manufacturing site at Bathford in Rees-Mogg’s North East Somerset seat, has held the contract to manufacture British...

A web page linking Leave.EU to Cambridge Analytica has been leaked online after being deleted in the wake of the Facebook scandal. The data-mining company was exposed by whistleblower Christopher Wylie in the Observer for harvesting 50 million social media profiles of US voters which was used by Donald Trump's adviser Steve Bannon in the election. But Brexit links to the firm have largely been buried until now, with this Guardian article currently the subject of a legal complaint on behalf of...

Complaints about Nigel Farage fly tipping fish have been submitted to Westminster Council after yesterday's protest by the former Ukip leader on the Thames. Farage joined a raft of protesters campaigning for a revision of fishing quotas during the Brexit transition. The red, white and blue fishing boat sailed down the River Thames before stopping in front of Parliament and dumping the crates of dead haddock, which symbolise the stock that gets thrown back into the sea because of stringent...

Britain's post-Brexit blue passport, which has been used by politicians to symbolise the country's break from the European Union, will be made by a Franco-Dutch firm after they won the race for the £490m printing job. UK-based firm De La Rue, which makes the current burgundy version, lost the contract to make the iconic blue passport to Gemalto, which is listed on the French and Dutch stock exchanges. Speaking to BBC Radio 4’s Today programme on Thursday morning, the chief executive of De...

This depressingly predictable slide towards the financial ruin and effective bankruptcy by Northamptonshire County Council is the result of staggering incompetence from both Whitehall and in County Hall says GMB GMB has welcomed the support of Jeremy Corbyn after the Labour savaged the Prime Minister over the financial collapse of Northamptonshire County Council (NCC). At Prime Minister’s Questions today, Mr Corbyn blamed the blamed the “slash and burn” approach to local authority funding as the reason for the council going...