Politics

Esther McVey recently referenced Mind in a speech about Universal Credit. The mental health charity decided to reaffirm their position on the much-criticised new benefit via Twitter. Responding to the noise on social media, Vicki Nash, Head of Policy and Campaigns said: “The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Esther McVey mentioned Mind in her Universal Credit (UC) regulations statement. We have repeatedly raised our concerns with the Department for Work and Pensions about UC and the regulations and so...

A $240-billion-a-day market has announced today that it is to switch London for Amsterdam ahead of Brexit. CME Group Inc. is moving its European market for short-term financing, the largest in the region, out of London because the exchange operator wants to guarantee continental firms can continue to use it if there is a no-deal Brexit, Bloomberg has reported. The decision is the first example of an entire major financial market leaving the UK. John Edwards, managing director of BrokerTec...

Remain would win a significant majority if the EU referendum were held again, according to a major new poll from Channel 4 and Survation. Some 54 per cent of people said they would stay in the EU if the 2016 referendum were held tomorrow – when those who refused to vote or answered “don’t know” were removed. Survation interviewed 20,000 people in the biggest ever independent Brexit opinion poll. Analysis showed that 105 council areas that voted Leave in 2016 would...

Sacha Baron Cohen resurrected Borat to canvass for Donald Trump in a hilarious midterm election spoof on the Jimmy Kimmel show. Borat engaged in conversations with Trump supporters who defended putting immigrants in cages and refuted the "fake news" reports of Trump in the video. “I don’t believe he is and I don’t see any evidence of that,” one man said to which Borat responded: “I am a racist, it is nice", Borat replied. Baron Cohen’s most recent project, Who...

With the final results pouring in the US Midterms look be a tale of two chambers. The Democrats took control of the House of Representatives for the first time since 2010, and Republicans held the Senate, results which were celebrated on both sides. At 1:27 am US time Donald Trump posted a quote from conservative economist and actor Ben Stein, who lauded the President as “the magic man". He said: “There’s only been five times in the last 105 years that an...

Britain’s deportation process has been secretly militarised as part of Theresa May’s Hostile Environment policy, new reports have revealed. According to a freedom of information request submitted by JOE the Home Office has started to use a Royal Air Force base to deport hundreds of people on specially chartered planes. The move was made to avoid protesters at civilian airports such as London Stansted. Brize Norton was used to deport hundreds of people last year, although that figure could have...

The Midterms are expected to return marginal gains that could have huge implications on US politics according to early indicators. Spread betting data shows electoral shocks across key states could be in the offing, with the Republican’s slim majority likely to be upset by marginal swings. But political experts predict the Republicans will win out in November’s elections, despite the Democrats putting up a challenge in both Arizona and Nevada. This will be thanks to further consolidation in traditional strongholds...

The Trussell Trust says it has handed out a record number of emergency supplies between April and September this year as the government’s disastrous roll-out of Universal Credit continues to wreak havoc on the most vulnerable people in the country. More than 650,000 emergency supplies were handed out to people in crisis in the six months up to October, a 13 per cent increase on same period in 2017. The charity says if the five week minimum wait for a...

Details of how Vote Leave cheated were laid out in full today as the nation comes to grips with the news that one of the campaign's leading donors is to be investigated by the National Crime Agency. Funding from Arron Banks will now be investigated as part of a possible criminal conspiracy that links donations to impermissible sources. It comes after Vote Leave was fined and reported to police by the Electoral Commission for overspending on their campaign to the tune of £675,000....