Politics

Robert Halfon, the former Apprenticeships and Skills Minister, was unceremoniously sacked by prime minister Theresa May just after the June General Election. Halfon had one or two things to say about the prime minister which we won’t repeat here, but which we highly recommend you go and read. While the low profile of the position means most people don’t know who the Apprenticeships and Skills Minister is, Halfon’s sacking may be significant. He was a huge supporter of further education...

A new poll has shown that the Labour party are storming ahead in the polls, leaving the Conservatives behind, as the party is still licking its wounds from the poor election performance. Jeremy Corbyn is now pushing hard to become the next PM. The YouGov poll, the first by the pollsters since the Election result, has put Labour on 46 per cent and the Conservatives on 38 per cent. Way behind are UKIP on 4 per cent and the Lib...

GMB members are angry enough to have given a mandate for the earliest possible strike date The first ever Sellafield Firefighters’ strike will go ahead this month after talks between GMB, the union for nuclear workers, and Sellafield Ltd broke down. Discussions lasted just 30 minutes – including two adjournments. GMB members are so angry they have given a mandate for the earliest possible strike date later this month. The Sellafield Strike Committee will decide tomorrow the date for the...

The Iraq war and the fall-out afterwards has left a dark stain on Blair's time as PM. His legacy will forever be tainted by the war and the reasons for it. Now the man who led the investigation into the war has broken his silence. Sir John Chilcot has said he doesn't think Tony Blair was “straight with the nation” about his decisions in the run-up to the Iraq war. The chairman of the public inquiry into the 2003 conflict...

Tory Minister Guy Opperman was heckled today as the Tory party faced yet more splits - this time over robbing women in the 60s of their state pension. In a rowdy debate in Westminster Hall, MPs from all parties rounded on the government for leaving millions of women born in the 1950s without a state pension after laws to equalise the state pension age for men and women at the age of 65. This will rise to age 66 by...

Britain has become so strangled by government-driven cuts that it can't even fund jobs in Jobcentres. According to the Department for Work and Pensions 750 people are to be put out of work as Jobcentres across UK close in a big shake-up. A total of 68 smaller jobcentres will be merged with larger ones, and 40 others will be moved within local government buildings under efficiency savings. Four will be closed entirely. That means that The Jobcentre staff who help people look for...

More than one million households with children suffering under ‘cruel’ Government pay pinch Shocking new figures from GMB, the union for public sector workers, show almost 2.5 million children are being hit by the public sector pay cap. Analysis of the latest ONS figures show an estimated 2.4 million children live in 1.4 million households where at least one adult works in the public sector as their main job. The average full time public sector workers in the UK has...

Wildlife campaigners fear that more dolphins will be found washed up dead on British beaches - because of BREXIT. Almost 200 dolphins and porpoises have been found dead on Cornish beaches already this year with the sharpest-ever rise recorded between January and April. Most of the protection for the mammals comes from the EU but once we leave campaigners say even more will die with no replacement legislation currently proposed. A petition urging Fisheries Minister George Eustice to put laws...

A Tory MP and his two aides accused of misdeclaring expenses after breaching election campaign spending limits in the 2015 general election will face trial, a court heard today. South Thanet MP Craig Mackinlay, 50, is said to have not properly reported expenses in his local return. Mackinlay, his election agent at the time Nathan Gray, 28, and campaign specialist Marion Little, 62, were all charged under the Representation of the People Act 1983. The charges relate to allegations that...