EU leaders have reacted positively to the letter Jeremy Corbyn has sent Theresa May with his proposals to break the Brexit deadlock and avoid a no deal catastrophe for the UK economy. Donald Tusk has suggested that they may provide a way forward that the EU would accept. Theresa May ...
Award winning comedian and News Quiz favourite Jeremy Hardy has died after battling cancer his publicist has announced. Tributes from the greats of broadcasting, comedy and social activisim have poured in this morning (see below). The Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said: "Jeremy Hardy was a dear, lifelong friend. He always gave ...
The full list of MPs who voted for and against Theresa May's deal with the European Union has been revealed. Some 432 MPs voted against the agreement in total, handing the government the biggest Commons defeat in British political history. The last time a government was defeated by more than 100 ...
The Conservative Party have been accused of giving up governing after they accepted a raft of Labour amendments to the Budget. They decided not to take the Labour changes to a vote, as they feared they could lose, as the DUP are, essentially, on strike. The DUP won't support the ...
Care workers, cleaners, cops and cashiers paid more in tax than the owner of Cadbury last year as the Conservative con that we’re all in this together unravels. Despite recording a profit of more than £185 million Cadbury owner Mondelez UK paid no corporation tax in Britain last year, meaning ...
By Chloé Farand Chloé Farand is a reporter at Desmog UK investigating climate change denial - where this report first appeared. In a packed lecture hall a few hundred metres away from the Conservative Party Conference, climate science denier and hard-Brexiter MP Owen Paterson told the cheering crowd: “We are the mainstream ...
If Michael Gove is serious about taking back control he must put England’s water back in public hands, says GMB Union Shock findings show that almost three quarters of England’s water industry is currently owned from overseas. At least 71% of shares in England’s nine privatised water companies are owned ...
When are they going to admit that Brexit is a disaster? The Conservatives seem pathologically unable to admit it. Labour appears less willing to accept the reality every day. With six months to go before the UK leaves the European Union, there is no agreement. There is no trade deal. ...
Both workers and businesses will thrive under Labour Party plans to force large firms to give workers shares in the company, a Warwick Business School professor has said. John McDonnell set out proposals to make large corporations give workers shares worth up to £500 each year as part of a ...