Politics

Inflation shoots up to 2.9% in latest figures – highest since April 2012 The GMB says Theresa May and the Conservative’s economic credibility is in tatters as inflation shoots up to 2.9% - the highest level in five years – while living standards are in reverse. The union is calling on the Prime Minister’s minority Government to end the public sector pay pinch which artificially keeps public servants pay well below inflation. Public sector workers were already facing an average...

  As it emerged that Prime Minister Theresa May was keeping Jeremy Hunt as Health Secretary in her post-election cabinet reshuffle his name was unfortunately mispronounced TWICE in one day by TV reporters. The unpopular Health Secretary who has presided over cuts and closures in around 40% of mental health trusts was subjected to the same "Freudian slip" twice, as on live TV the letter ‘C’ was added to his surname, once on the BBC:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDbSfa7jI8A   and again live on...

Yesterday a relaxed looking Jeremy Corbyn went on the Andrew Marr show to tell the nation he is ready to take on the Tories, if another election is called, and to win. He told Andrew Marr it is ‘quite possible’ that there will be another vote either this year or in 2018. Corbyn said he is also going to create his own Queen's Speech, based on the Labour manifesto, to be considered by parliament. As the Conservative Party appear to...

With the dust starting to settle on a dramatic General Election, the attention of those within the Conservative party has turned to addressing where it all went wrong. Fingers were immediately pointed at Theresa May for running a campaign focused on her leadership which did little more than expose the cracks within it. How, after all, is it possible to reverse expectations of a hundred-seat majority into a hung parliament and minority Government propped up by the Unionists? We talked to Conservative Councillor...

Boris Johnson urged Tory MPs to unite behind Theresa May and mocked Jeremy Corbyn. The Foreign Secretary posted his rallying cry to a WhatsApp conversation which was promptly leaked to the media. Many would say the Tories are in free fall and PM May's days are numbered, and a minority deal with the DUP still hasn't been finalised. Jeremy Corbyn is hopefully Labour may even be able to form a government, if the Conservatives fail to bring the DUP on board....

The Labour party has garnered almost a million members following its General Election success. Jeremy Corbyn's party has picked up a further 150,000 members since Thursday bringing total membership numbers to 800,000. The Conservative Party membership figures were just under 150,000 in December 2016. Speaking on the Andrew Marr show this morning Mr Corbyn said the election signified a rejection of the “politics of fear” and said "we are ready any time” to govern. “We have a chaotic situation with a government...

The Labour Party has defied odds of 66/1 to win Kensington. The seat was the last to declare and went to Labour by just 25 votes after the count was paused because of teller fatigue. Historically Kensington is a Conservative stronghold, highlighted by Lady Victoria Borwick winning over 52 per cent of the vote back in 2015. It was also  Michael Portillo's seat when he won the 1999 by-election, and is also the constituency in which The Daily Mail is based. People...

A DUP billboard running an anti-Conservative pledge has backfired spectacularly after the party teamed up with the Tories to give them the majority they need to form a government. The advertisement features a woman giving her allegiance to Northern Ireland's DUP because she "wants an MP who answers to us - not to the Tories". But it will undoubtedly come back to bite the party in the arse. Theresa May announced today that she would be forming a government with...

The Midlands constituency of Newcastle-under-Lyme was won by a margin of 30 votes after students were turned away because they weren't on the register. Yesterday news broke that admin errors could deny voters the chance to cast ballots in the marginal seat, but the students were urged to go back after the cock-up to place their vote. And it's a good job they did. The seat ended up been won by a slender 30 vote majority by Labour candidate Paul Farrelly who...