Politics

Former Mayor of London Boris Johnson has engaged in a battle of words with his predecessor over the visit of Donald Trump to the UK - calling the Labour politician a "puffed up pompous popinjay". Sadiq Khan said President Trump's decision to cancel his planned trip to the UK shows he "got the message" from Londoners who "find his policies and actions the polar opposite of our city's values". Speaking shortly after Trump's announcement that he wouldn't be opening the new...

The Government of Botswana has today made public a press release condemning Donald Trump's alleged terming of African nations as "shithole countries". According to reports Trump expressed frustration behind closed doors with people coming to the US from places such as Africa and Haiti. He said: "Why do we want all these people from 'shithole countries' coming here?" A statement released by the government in Botswana has moved to ridicule the comments, calling them "highly irresponsible, reprehensible and racist". It reads: "The Government of...

An EU diplomat has told the UK to "stop dicking around" following news that a second referendum may be on the cards. Nigel Farage yesterday sparked rumours that the UK may go back to the polls over the decision to leave the EU. The former UKIP leader said: "I’m reaching the point of thinking that we should have a second referendum on EU membership" on Channel 5's the Wright Stuff. But although a second vote could lead to the UK...

Donald Trump today tweeted that he has cancelled a trip to the UK because he is unhappy with the "sale" of the US embassy in Mayfair. The President was expected to cut the ribbon at the new state-of-the-art development in Nine Elms, but blamed the Obama Administration for overseeing the sale of the embassy for peanuts only to build a new one in an "off location". However, commentators have since pointed out that the announcement is littered with fake news. The...

A new report published today by Cambridge Econometrics on behalf of the Mayor of London has revealed that a hard Brexit would increase inequality between London and the rest of the UK. It says that the effects of leaving the Single Market and the Customs Union would be “noticeably more severe for the rest of the UK than for London, which implies that the rest of the UK will be much worse off than London following Brexit.” Commenting, Ben Bradshaw...

In business questions to the Leader of the House, Shadow leader of the house Valerie Vaz spelled out to the House of Commons exactly why the Government could not wriggle out of responsibility for the current dire crisis facing the NHS across Britain. The Labour MP for Walsall South explained why she held the Jeremy Hunt the Secretary of State for Health accountable for a constituent’s death: "There seems to be a fatal flaw in the Government’s arguments. They say...

Nigel Farage has called for a second referendum on EU membership following a huge public backlash since the referendum. The former UKIP leader, who was a key architect of the first referendum, made the extraordinary admission in an interview on the Wright Stuff show. He said: "My mind is actually changing on this. "What is for certain is that the Cleggs and the Blairs will never ever give up. "They will go on whinging and whining and moaning all the...

Brian May has slammed Theresa May saying she is "driven by vanity and thirst for power". In a "battle of the Mays" the Queen guitarist accused the Prime Minister of being vain before taking aim at the UK's decision to leave the European Union, which he described as “the dumbest thing Britain has ever done in my lifetime”. Speaking to German newspaper Welt am Sonntag, the legendary musician called Brexit a “tragedy” and “disaster". He said: "She (Theresa May) is, like Cameron before...

Tim Farron has admitted that he lied to the public during the 2017 general election campaign, when he was asked if he believed gay sex was sinful. His answer to the question was “we are all sinners” to avoid his real feelings on the issue. Now Mr Farron has admitted to a Christian radio station that he felt pressured into dodging the question He told the radio show: "The bottom line is of course I did. And there are things...