Politics

Comedian James Acaster has been credited with saying the "smartest thing anyone has ever said on Brexit" after his teabag metaphor went viral on social media. Appearing on Mock the Week the Kettering funnyman compared Britain's exit from the single market to taking a teabag out of a cup of peppermint tea rather than leaving it in. He said although the bag appears to be getting weaker if you leave it in the cup on the whole gets stronger. Whereas if...

Theresa May has been ridiculed after she argued a People's Vote would "overturn the will of the British people". J.K. Rowling led the social media onslaught saying May's comments in response to John McDonnell's assertion that Labour will inevitably back a second Brexit referendum "make literally no sense". "Who does she think would be voting? The Chinese?", she said. The shadow chancellor claimed yesterday that Labour will back a People's Vote if the party is unable to force a general election in comments that...

In a city of 33 bridges London is internationally renowned for the many architectural constructs that gracefully line the River Thames. But one divide the city has long struggled to bridge is that between the most well off and those enduring significant hardship in the capital. London is increasingly becoming a tale of two cities. According to the most recent Social Attitudes Survey, eight in ten people think that the divide between social classes is wide or very wide, whilst...

Three quarters of UK automotive businesses fear a ‘no-deal’ Brexit will threaten their future viability, according to a new member survey announced by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) at its 102nd annual dinner in London this evening. The results highlight the critical need for a Brexit withdrawal deal and transition to prevent the industry falling off the cliff-edge on March 29 when the UK leaves its largest and closest trading partner, the EU. 74.1% of companies with UK...

One wrote: "I'm sorry Newsnight, but I wouldn't trust Marcus Fysh to order me a pizza."

Jeremy Corbyn is expected to back a People's Vote or second referendum if Theresa May is unable to get a meaningful vote next month. According to senior sources the Labour leader is close to agreeing that he would formally make his party the champion of another referendum or People’s Vote shortly after the loss of the meaningful vote by May - on the basis that if there is no consensus in parliament on what comes next, the question has to go...

Minister for Small Business, Consumers and Corporate Responsibility Kelly Tolhurst MP contacted Sweet Pea & Olive owner Linda Driver to offer her help and support at her high street shop on Small Business Saturday this weekend.

A Conservative MP yesterday made one of the best arguments for a People’s Vote yet, without even knowing he did it. Royston Smith, MP for Southampton Itchen who campaigned to leave the EU, took to social media to bemoan Theresa May's Brexit deal which seems to have united people on both sides of the Brexit divide in opposition of it. But as Liberal Democrat MEP Catherine Bearder pointed out, instead of venting his anger he seems to have presented one of the best arguments...

The Government has accepted the LPC's recommendations for future minimum wage rates. The rates below will apply from 1 April 2019. Responding to today’s Low Pay Commission report on wages, Young Women’s Trust chief executive Dr Carole Easton OBE said:“The Government should go further than adopting the Low Pay Commission’s recommendations and extend the ‘national living wage’ to all workers. Allowing employers to pay young people lower wages for no other reason than their age, as the Government is doing,...