Our favourite dogs at pollings stations

It's polling day for councils around the country and the definite winner for the nation's favourite story on social media is #dogsatpollingstations! These are some of our favourite dogs at polling stations that you have plastered all over Twitter. And don't forget, if you want to to see an actual dog at a polling station, or take your dog to the polling station or indeed exercise your democratic right to vote, they are open until 10pm tonight. You can find...

Nigel Farage calls for new referendum – on the abolition of the House of Lords

Nigel Farage is calling for a new referendum on the abolition of the House of Lords after the Government suffered set-backs on the Brexit process. Writing in the Telegraph, Mr Farage blasted the Lords for its intervention and suggested the House had "signed its own death warrant". He said: "By defying Brexit, the Lords shows what a travesty British democracy has become. "Ever since the great battles which led to the Parliament Act 1911, debates about the composition and power...

Father of Game of Thrones star suspended by Tory party

The father of Game of Thrones star Rose Leslie has been suspended by the Tory party over non-payment of council tax. But Councillor Sebastian Leslie, who was revealed in December to be thousands of pounds in arrears, insists he is only defying the system to highlight a legal campaign. Until last week, the Aberdeen councillor had not attended any council meetings for four months and is now under investigation over bringing the party into disrepute. Confirming that he was now...

Tories could face a wipe-out in key London local election battlegrounds

A shift towards Liberal and Labour votes could leave the Conservatives facing an election wipe-out in the local elections today. According to political traders the Liberal Democrats could seize key seats in the poll, including a stronghold in Richmond. Labour currently hold control over 20 out of 32 boroughs in the capital, and could be set to take Wandsworth with traders giving Labour a 51 per cent chance of winning an overall majority in one of the tightest races in the London boroughs....

Home Office in fresh crisis after telling 7,000 foreign students to leave UK in error

The Home Office has been engulfed in a fresh crisis after accusations emerged that it told 7,000 foreign students to leave the UK in error. In Sajid Javid's first day in office new revelations have been leaked of a shocking blunder that could have left students homeless and detained. According to the Financial Times the Home Office may have falsely accused thousands of foreign students of faking their proficiency in English and ordered them to leave the country. A large majority...

Sajid Javid “cannot form another human shield for Theresa May”

Diane Abbott has said the newly-appointed Sajid Javid cannot form another human shield for Theresa May as suspicions rise that Amber Rudd became a fall guy for failures that took place under her role as Home Secretary. The Labour Shadow Home Secretary said the change that was brought about by Rudd's resignation last night will mean nothing unless May's "hostile environment" policy is brought to an end. She said: "The new home Secretary cannot form another human shield for Theresa May....

BREAKING NEWS: Home Secretary Amber Rudd finally resigns over Windrush fiasco lies

After over two weeks of calls for the Home Secretary to resign over an “out of control” and “institutionally racist” Home Office, news emerged tonight that Prime Minister Theresa May has finally accepted Home Secretary Amber Rudd’s resignation. Both Amber Rudd and her predecessor Theresa May have been under intense scrutiny over the fiasco that has left many in the Windrush generation of Commonwealth immigrants and their families facing wrongful deportation. A shocking mix of Home Office incompetence, harsh removal...

Calls for action as UK economic growth grinds to a halt

Polling shows the public expect a recession within the next 2 years GMB, Britain’s general union, has called on the Government to 'get it's act together' as ONS figures released this morning showed GDP struggling at just 0.1% growth in the first quarter of 2018. Recent polling by Survation on behalf of GMB shows more than half of those questioned expect the UK to slip into recession within the next two years. John McDonnell, the shadow chancellor, said: “The truth...

Windrush scandal: calls for Amber Rudd to resign as “out of control” Home Office contradicts her vow that her department had no removal targets

Home Secretary Amber Rudd is facing increasing calls for her resignation after it emerged that as she was telling MPs that the Home Office has no targets for removals, the Home Office were confirming what many suffering from the Windrush scandal already knew, Home Office staff were under pressure to remove people from the country. Amber Rudd furiously backpeddled in front of MPs, responding to urgent an urgent parliamentary question on the growing debacle of Home Office incompetence, cruelty and...

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