Politics

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...

  Guy Verhofstadt has lashed out at Nigel Farage on Twitter over his river Thames fishing stunt, pointing out that if he cared about the British fishing fleet he would have bothered to turn up for them as a member for the fisheries committee in the European Parliament. - A role the British taxpayer paid him to fulfill, but one he avoided year after year. Farage joined fishermen in throwing Haddock into the river in protest after the UK agreed to...

An undercover investigation by Channel 4 News reveals how Cambridge Analytica secretly campaigns in elections across the world. Bosses of the company were filmed talking about using bribes, ex-spies, fake IDs and sex workers. The murky world of big data and using social media to spread political messages to millions of people, raises more questions on the ethics and safety of the on-line world. Cambridge Analytica has been accused of using the personal data of 50 million Facebook members to...

Jeremy Corbyn has come under fire from the Conservative Government and from within his own party, over his stance on Russian involvement in the nerve agent attack on Sergei Skripal, and his daughter, on 4th March. 23 Russian diplomats expelled from London following the incident. Moscow then denied all involvement, and is expelling 23 British diplomats in retaliation. The Labour leader believes it is highly likely that the Russian state was directly involved in the attack, but refused to directly...

Vladimir Putin is "overwhelmingly likely" to have ordered the nerve agent attack on Sergei Skripal according to Boris Johnson. The foreign secretary said "our quarrel is with Putin's Kremlin, and with his decision" over the nerve agent attack. Russia denies ordering the attack and has said that the accusations against Putin are "shocking and unforgivable". Russian ex-spy Sergei Skripal, 66, and his daughter Yulia Skripal, 33, remain critically ill in hospital. Speaking alongside the Polish foreign minister, Mr Johnson said...