Politics

President Trump has said he is ready to apologise for retweeting anti-Muslim videos from far right group Britain First. Trump tweeted a succession of Islamaphobic videos from the Deputy Leader of Britain First in November in a move that was condemned by World leaders, including Theresa May. Although his press secretary defended the tweets at the time, the President has told Piers Morgan that he is ready to apologise in an exclusive interview to be aired this weekend. He said he was...

Baroness Tessa Jowell yesterday received a standing ovation in the House of Lords after she gave a moving speech about her battle with brain cancer. Hundreds of peers, including the Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt, gave the Labour politician a minute-long applause after she called for more cancer treatments to be available on the NHS. In May last year, Ms Jowell announced she had been diagnosed with a high-grade brain tumour known as glioblastoma. In a moving speech, she called for...

After the undercover revelations, printed in the FT, about the alleged sexual harassment at the Presidents Club annual charity dinner last night, there have been calls for Families minister, Nadhim Zahazwi, to resign, as he attended the event. The reputable finance newspaper reported men “repeatedly putting hands up their skirts” and one even said “an attendee had exposed his penis to her during the evening.” Already David Meller, a co-chair of the club, has stood down from the board of...

David Davis today backtracked on new EU rules during the Brexit transition, saying Britain will not refuse to use them. The Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union has opted for a "hit and hope" approach on new rules instead, relying on the EU taking a long time to implement them during the likely two-year period after 2019, in the hope that by the time any come in to force the transition will be over. His approach was immediately dismissed as “really...

Suspicions that the demise of Britain's public services is an act of deliberate capitalist vandalism have surfaced following a winter of discontent for the health service. Almost 15 per cent of England's A&E patients waited more than four hours to be seen last month - the joint-worst figure on record - as senior doctors warn of patients dying in corridors. Many hospitals are without even a single free bed, with one consultant saying that he could not even make any...

The Chancellor, Philip Hammond, has slapped down an expected demand from Boris Johnson for a post-Brexit cash boost for the NHS. Johnson was hoping for a £5 billion NHS "Brexit dividend." The Chancellor reminded Boris he is the Foreign Secretary, without responsibility for health spending, as he arrived for a meeting of European finance ministers in Brussels on today. Mr Hammond said: "Mr Johnson is the Foreign Secretary. "I gave the Health Secretary an extra £6bn at the recent Budget...

Nigel Farage is among the favourites to replace Henry Bolton following Sunday’s vote of no-confidence for the current UKIP leader. The former leader was back in the limelight recently after he called for a second referendum on EU membership on TV show the Wright Stuff. Some people have taken that to mean that he is eyeing up a return to the political arena, and he's well priced at bookmakers Ladbrokes who have him at 4/1 to take the reins at the beleaguered nationalist party....

Paul Oakden, the Chairan of UKIP made a statement concerning the position of the leader of UKIP - a party which has had a farcical record of replacing its leader in the wake of the retirement of Nigel Farage: "In an emergency meeting of the UKIP National Executive today, a discussion took place on recent press coverage of the party leader, Henry Bolton. "Having heard a statement from Mr Bolton, the NEC asked a number of questions pertaining to that...

This weekend much of the British Press - as well as the BBC - mindlessly repeated the hysterical analysis propagated by the Right Wing 'think tank' The Centre for Policy Studies. Here is a listing of their Board of Directors. As you can see, it contains 10 Tories. They are: Lord Saatchi - a Conservative Party Peer, put in the Lords for services to the Thatcher government. Sir Graham Brady - a Conservative Party MP. Lord Bamford - A Conservative Party donor....