Politics

Theresa May was today asked about a 10-year-old orphan facing deportation. Glasgow North East MP Paul Sweeney called on the Prime Minster to guarantee asylum for a 10-year-old boy orphaned in Scotland. When he was a three-year-old toddler Giorgi Kakava and his widowed mum Sophie fled Georgia seven years ago amid threats from gangland figures in their native country. Sophie died in February before their asylum application could be processed, leaving her son orphaned. The young Celtic fan, who only...

MPs will have just 12 hours to debate 15 crucial amendments to the Brexit bill, including the customs union, the date and time of the exit and Northern Ireland. The latest amendments from the House of Lords will circle back to the Commons on 12 June, but with a working majority of just 13 Prime Minister Theresa May has given politicians just half a day to debate the changes and send the bill back to the house. Tory chief whip Julian Smith...

The number of Brits saying the vote to leave the EU was the wrong decision has reached a new high, according to the latest data. In the same week that prominent Leave campaigner Nigel Farage claimed he never “promised that Brexit would be a huge success” confidence from the British public also seems to be diminishing. Shocking analysis recently pooled the mounting evidence that suggests Brexit will make us poorer. Some 97 per cent of academics, the IMF, World Bank, HM...

Jeremy Hunt became Britain's longest-serving custodian of the NHS this weeki having surpassed Margaret Thatcher's Health Minister, Norman Fowler, and Aneurin Bevan, the man who set up the health service in the first place. With waiting times getting increasingly worse, doctors and nurses fleeing in their droves, care standards falling dramatically and the private sector increasingly gobbling up services the question on everyone's mind is; How has he survived so long? Given his record over the past five years and 274 days, one...

The Executive Committee of the Conservative Muslim Forum has just added its voice to calls last night from over 350 mosques and Muslim organisations all over the Muslim community for an independent investigation into Islamophobia in the Tory party. It will be increasingly hard for Theresa May to ignore the mounting pressure for an independent inquiry after some sickening high profile racist incidents within the party. - Especially in her current weakened position, facing conspiracies and hostile briefings from within...

A new Google Chrome plug-in has been developed that translates all mentions of Tommy Robinson to "convicted fraudster Stephen Yaxley-Lennon". Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Christopher Yaxley-Lennon, was jailed for 13 months for potentially prejudicing a court case. The hashtag #FreeTommyRobinson has been populated by sympathisers since his sentencing, but few people know the name is an alias. To avoid any confusion, HOPE not hate has released a 'Tommy Robinson' Chrome extension that translates all mentions of the former EDL leader...

Former Vote Leave chairman Nigel Lawson is applying for an official French residency card, it has been revealed. Lawson, formally Baron Lawson of Blaby, has told Connexion he’s applying for his carte de sejour, a document that secures his rights to remain in Gascony post-Brexit. The move is on the recommendation of the French government who say Britons living in France should seek to get official residency cards. As of last month fewer than 15,000 ex-oats had them, which is roughly a tenth...

Activate, the Conservative's imitation of Momentum, has folded after just eight months. The political movement was set up to engage young people in centre-right politics but has struggled to make any headway since it was launched in August last year. High membership fees, homophobic WhatsApp conversations and lavish meetings are highlight's of the organisation's short-lived existence. Many have argued that the group was doomed from the start having been set the impossible mission of becoming the vehicle for a conservative mass movement...

Donations to the Conservative party were three times the size of any other party at the start of 2018, new figures have revealed. The Tories received £4.7 million in the first three months of the year, compared with £1.4 million of donations to Labour and £564,000 to the Liberal Democrats. Leading Tory donors include Ehud Sheleg, an Israeli-born businessman who recent media reports have suggested could become the party's treasurer. The party also received a £582,358 bequest. Outside of the main...