Politics

Unable to count on Conservative Party members, the electorate, her DUP allies, and now even her own MPs, Theresa May’s government is now so weakened that it’s being mocked by Tory backbenchers in the House of Commons. Philip Davies is the Conservative Party Member of Parliament for Shipley in West Yorkshire. You may have heard of him from the occasions he used his position to talk out private members’ bills on tackling domestic and sexual violence against women. - With...

David Davis has conceded that Brexit withdrawal agreement with EU will 'probably favour the union' in one key way - financially. Speaking in the House of Lords European Union Select Committee, the Brexit Secretary said: “In the infamous – or famous – words of the European Union nothing is agreed until everything is agreed. “The withdrawal agreement on balance will probably favour the union in terms of the things like money and so on. Whereas the future relationship will favour...

The shadow foreign secretary challenged Boris Johnson to recognise the Palestinian state to mark the centenary of the Balfour Declaration of 1917, when his predecessor as Foreign Secretary wrote in support of a "national home for the Jewish people" in the then British held territory of Palestine. And she promised the House of Commons that if the Conservative government would refuse to recognise the state of Palestine, the next Labour government would. Pouring scorn on Donald Trump's chaotic approach to...

Labour MP Chris Bryant has made a shocking revelation about royal family members covering up sexual abuse by a high ranking member of the clergy. The Labour MP for Rhondda told an emergency debate on sexual abuse in the House of Commons of a shocking case he was told about when he was a young vicar. A friend and colleague was suicidal after being raped by a senior churchman. Bryant told the House of Commons that "the senior cleric concerned...

Conservative Party secretaries, researchers and aides have compiled a list of 36 Tory MPs' inappropriate sexual behaviour and unwanted advances. As senior Conservative figures have been furiously briefing to downplay sexual allegations against Tory MPs, furious Westminster workers have been compiling proof that 11% of all the party's MPs have been abusing their positions to harass female and male employees. Female Westminster workers have been circulating a dirty dossier which now comprises inappropriate behaviour by 36 sitting Tory MPs including...

Secretary of State Jeremy Hunt today delivered a car crash interview on the BBC Andrew Marr programme. In the toe-curling interview, Marr pointed out that Hunt was displaying signs of split personality disorder. The third longest serving Secretary of State for Health in the history of the nation began by reeling off empty party-line soundbites when questioned about unsafe NHS hospitals, the loss of 5,000 mental health nurses, the cutting of 7,500 mental health beds, and NHS workers operating to their absolute...

Columnist Owen Jones took to Marr show this morning to discuss serious sexual allegation in today's Sunday’s papers. Jones said there are reports of “two senor cabinet Ministers being named by political researchers as serial sex pests. “The PM has been briefed on these allegations. Whips, and this is critical, are treating it as a bit of a laugh. “Yesterday Gove made a crass joke about Harvey Weinstein and sexual abuse and rape of women.” Jones demanded action needs to...

Late last week it was revealed that there was a What's app group used by females in Westminster that list certain men, including senior MPs, who need to be avoided, to reduce the risk of unwanted sexual harassment. The names of these men have not been released by any political party, as yet. However, today the Mail on Sunday reported that Mark Garner, International Trade Minister, admitted referring to his secretary as "sugar tits" and also made her purchase sex...

Real pay is now down almost 5 per cent since financial crash showing Conservatives have no clue how to ‘make work pay’ says GMB union. GMB, Britain’s general union, has condemned both the Government’s handling of the economy and the public sector pay cap after official figures published today (26 October 2017) show wages shrank by 0.4 per cent in real terms in 2017. This was the first fall in three years - busting any myths of a recovery under...