Politics

Damning new research has revealed public sector workers are turning to payday loans to make ends meet. The study has been revealed a day after Theresa May narrowly defeated a bid to end the pay freeze in the House of Commons. Labour’s amendment was defeated by 14 votes, with 309 MPs backing it and 323 voting against, with all ten Democratic Unionist Party MPs backing the Tories. But the issue is unlikely to be laid to rest there. A shocking...

Today Theresa May survived the first test of her slim minority government, clinging on with the support of ten DUP MP’s in Parliament’s first vote on her curtailed Queen’s Speech programme which did not include any easing of cuts to emergency and public services. A Labour amendment on easing emergency and public servants cuts that was the first test of her ability to govern was defeated by 323 to 309 votes. The Labour Party amendment to the Queen’s Speech pointed out...

The first PMQs of the new Parliament, if not quite new Government, began with a Tory MP seemingly blaming Corbyn for someone urinating outside her constituency office door. Not sure you can directly blame Corbyn that somebody took a leak outside your office, but that is what she was trying to allude to. Desperate times and all that. So how do we apportion blame? Well the rejuvenated Labour leader had a few ideas today. However, he began by praising the...

The online presence of political parties and candidates has never played a bigger part in the quest for power. From Donald Trump to Jeremy Corbyn, the digital world has helped turn outsiders into leaders. Political party websites are a tool used to attract, engage with and mobilise support, and the recent General Election in the UK was no exception. The growing importance of political websites In a study titled The role of a political party website: Lessons learnt from the...

In extraordinary scenes in the House of Commons today, the Health Secretary was accused of a cover up and conflict of interest while presiding over the biggest scandal of lost patients records ever revealed in the NHS by his Labour Party counterpart in an emergency debate and responded: “transparency is not an absolute virtue.” Hundreds of thousands of confidential patient records contracted to be looked after by a company half owned by Jeremy Hunt's Department for Health and half owned...

Theresa May has been accused of finding a money tree to keep the Conservatives in power just weeks after using the issue against Labour in her general election campaign. The Conservative PM was accused of a "straight bung" after agreeing an extra £1 billion in exchange for parliamentary support from the DUP. It comes just weeks after she dismissed ambitious manifesto pledges from Labour as been dreamed up in fantasy land. Insisting there just wasn't the money. The SNP accused...

There has been a huge spike in the number of children been named Corbyn as expectant parents eschew celebrities for politicians. Following years of baby names inspired by the Beckhams and Kardashians it seems new parents are 'electing' to name their children after politicians - with Corbyn the hottest new baby-naming trend. After the Labour leader’s post-General Election popularity surge, over half of parents are now considering using the name Corbyn for their next child. The name has already soared 50 per...

The NHS has been on its knees for a number of years. Austerity and creeping privatisation have slowly eroded away our once great national health service. Now polling by the BMA (British Medical Association) has indicated that public dissatisfaction with the public health service has double in two years. Over 1,000 adults were questioned and 43 per cent of them were unhappy with the NHS compared to just 21 per cent as recently as 2015 This is the first time...

Jeremy Corbyn completely overshadowed acts such as Ed Sheeran and Thom Yorke's Radiohead as the most talked about act at Glastonbury. The Labour leader took to the Pyramid stage on Saturday afternoon with Glastonbury founder Michael Eavis CBE to rapturous reception. Chants of ‘Oh, Jeremy Corbyn’ rang around the prestigious fields, echoing previous concerts the Labour leader has spoken at. And despite some of the World's biggest bands performing at the festival, it seems Corbyn has taken the spoils for the most talked about act. Surprising...