Politics

Theresa May is clinging to power because she's the best of a bad bunch, it would seem. According to the latest odds Boris Johnson remains the favourite to replace the Prime Minister, leading the market in terms of bets placed accounting for 21.3 per cent of bets. Ruth Davidson, despite being 16/1, comes next in the market in terms of bets placed, accounting for 9.8 per cent of bets. Brexit Secretary David Davis is 5/1 and Home Secretary Amber Rudd is priced at 8/1, with...

Jeremy Corbyn will be rubbing his hands after a new report by the International Monetary Fund backed Labour's tax strategy and discredited the Conservatives' approach. Higher income tax rates for rich would reduce inequality without impacting economic growth. The research revealed higher income tax rates for the rich would help reduce inequality without having an adverse impact on growth. The highly influential half-yearly fiscal monitor ridicules the Tories' rationale for the reductions in tax for the highest earners in recent decades. In...

Britain now has a higher tax burden than Spain after the share of GDP taken in tax rocketed. The Tories have long claimed to be the party of low taxes but that claim is unlikely to stand up for much longer. With a month to go until the budget a graph leaked by Guido Fawkes shows the tax burden is now higher than it was under Gordon Brown in 2009. If the Office for Budget Responsibility figures are correct it also shows tax...

Donald Trump has threatened to revoke NBC's license after they published a story claiming the President wanted to increase the country's nuclear arsenal by TEN TIMES. The exclusive feature was unveiled today by the major broadcaster after three of the nation’s highest ranking national security leaders blew the whistle on his plans. Trump’s comments, the officials said, came in response to a briefing slide he was shown that charted the steady reduction of US nuclear weapons since the late 1960s, NBC...

A police sergeant has admitted that there has been NO officer available in Devon and Cornwall to attend to incidents. This news will terrifying the people who live in these two counties and the millions of tourists who flock to this part of the world every year. Mark Cooper, the police sergeant in question, said that budget cuts meant that the force in the West Country was really struggling to cope. Years of austerity has meant that these counties have...

A report has discovered that the Grime4Corbyn campaign led to an unexpected surge in the youth vote for the Labour party. Over half of grime music fans voted for Labour, after Theresa May called the snap election. One in four voted labour simply due to the grassroots music campaign. Stormzy was very vocal, and still is, in favour of the Labour leader. The MCs huge following obviously trust his political opinion and also backed Corbyn. This was the first ever...

Like any man of a certain age, from the North, I hold Liam Gallagher in high esteem. He was the man we all wanted to be, but our mum's wouldn't let us. But I never thought Liam would make the most sense over Brexit than pretty much anyone about at the moment. He was speaking to in NME's free magazine last week when he made the comment. Lucky for his fans that his new album, As You Were, is earning...

Theresa May's first major live appearance since a shambolic Conservative Party Conference speech in which she was served a P45 by a comedian was a chance to make the comeback the beleaguered Prime Minister urgently needed. Instead it was a shocking balls up. Three times when pressed by LBC presenter Iain Dale, the PM refused to say how she would vote tomorrow if there was another referendum on leaving the EU. Yet three times when asked,  May refused  guarantee that 3.2...

In a live interview on LBC radio streamed across social media, Prime Minister Theresa May just refused THREE times to say if she would vote for a Brexit if there was another EU Referendum. The Prime Minister was originally a supporter of the Remain Campaign, all be it a rather shy one who kept out of the public eye during the EU Referendum campaign. (Though she did deliver this very persuasive speech to business leaders outlining why she was convinced...