Politics

By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor A Labour MP has discussed a comment from a colleague that would shock any right minded individual. Dawn, who is a black woman, said on BBC Five Live's Piennar's Politics that another MP assumed she was a cleaner. Butler didn't name the bigot but said it happened in the Members'-only lift in the Palace of Westminster. She said: "It was a Members’ lift that Members of Parliament use specially in cases (where) we have get...

By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor A Freedom of Information request has found that 85% of calls to the Government’s benefit cheat hotline were not pursued due to lack of evidence. Over a million calls have been dealt with since 2010, leading to accusations that the Tories have cynically attempted to turn the poor against themselves; with some claiming friends, family and neighbours are cheating the system. However, 887,468 of the 1,041,219 reports of fraud were closed and deemed to have...

By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor Shockingly the amount of people sleeping rough on the streets of England rose at an “unprecedented” rate in 2015. According to a Government report on any evening in autumn 2015 there were 3,569 people without shelter. This is a 30% rise compared to the same count the year before, and also signals the largest annual rise since there reporting methodology began six years. Rough sleepers are defined as anyone found, either sleeping or about to...

By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor During Question Time an unnamed doctor branded Jeremy Hunt a "lair" over his claims that the upcoming strike will cause serious harm to patients. The doctor personally said he would ensure people would be safe in his hospital during the industrial action. He also added that the claims by a Conservative peer, Lord Julian Fellowes that there are 11k more deaths over the weekend, is wrong. The angry junior doctor said: "The stats are wrong. 11,000...

By Dean Hochlaf New Zealand MP, Winston Peters has thrown his voice into the great EU referendum debate, by suggesting Britain leaves the EU, and “heal a rift” with the nations of the Commonwealth that emerged when Britain joined the EEC. He has even gone as far as suggesting a Commonwealth free trade area, which has been enthusiastically picked up by the UKIP Commonwealth spokesman. The concept of a Commonwealth free trade area pops up every now and then as...

By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor SNP MP Mhairi Black has attacked the government again, this time on pension reform, as ever she didn't hold back and showed she might be young in age, but is wise well beyond her years. She said: "I have yet to hear of a general or a defense minister say: “we can’t bomb that country because we’ve exceeded our budget, we can’t find the money”. "When we want to bomb Syria we can find it. When...

By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor Jeremy Corbyn says that David Cameron would be jealous of the jacket he is wearing as he jokes about sorting out his tie while preparing for an interview. Watch clip here

By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor We have come across a hilarious video parody of Cameron vs Corbyn PMQs rap battle. TLE labelled the two JAY-SEE and Eazy E-U after yesterday's "yo momma" off. The video was made by Simon Gibson, for more from him follow@simonwgibson See video (below) like all good rap battles it contains explicit lyrics.

Boris Johnson's decision to support the 'Out' party in the referendum on Europe has resulted in a public swing of two per cent towards staying ‘In’ the EU, new research has revealed. Data from betting exchange Matchbook has revealed that Britain is in favour of remaining in the EU, with punters believing the ‘IN’ campaign has a near 72 per cent likelihood of winning. David Cameron’s ‘better deal ‘ shifted the UK public’s desire to stay IN the EU by nearly ten...