Nigel Farage and Mark White discuss Channel crossings More than 700 migrants crossed the Channel on small boats yesterday in a new daily record for 2023. Home Office figures show 755 people were detected making the dangerous journey on Thursday. The previous high for 2023 was 686 people on July 7. It takes the total […]
PMQs: Speaker Hoyle shuts down SNP MP Angus MacNeil The SNP has formally expelled suspended MP Angus MacNeil from its party membership after a public bust-up with their Westminster Chief Whip. Mr MacNeil was sacked as an SNP MP a month ago after accusing the party’s chief parliamentary enforcer of bullying during a Commons vote. […]
New protections for Colorado tenants went into effect Monday, covering what landlords can insert into lease agreements and capping costs associated with renting an apartment here. The protections come from three laws passed by Colorado legislators earlier this year amid a session dominated — and at times fractured — by lawmakers’ search for solutions to […]
Ron DeSantis says the military is more interested in global warming and “gender ideology” initiatives than in national security. Tim Scott says the Justice Department “continues to hunt Republicans.” Vivek Ramaswamy has vowed to “shut down the deep state,” borrowing former President Donald J. Trump’s conspiratorial shorthand for a federal bureaucracy he views as hostile. […]
Nigel Farage has accused the Scottish National Party of “hypocrisy” after it emerged nearly 16 million trees have been chopped down to make way for green energy wind farms. The startling juxtaposition of deforestation for wind turbines emerged when an SNP minister admitted millions of trees had been felled by Forestry and Land Scotland since […]
BBC Money Box on overpaying mortgage or pensions Hundreds of thousands of married women who missed out on a higher state pension have been given a major boost in their fight for justice. A landmark decision by a watchdog could be used to claw back £1 billion for older pensioners who have missed out on […]
Rishi Sunak looked relaxed as he stepped out with his family on the first day of their holiday in California. The Prime Minister visited an amusement park on the Santa Monica Pier yesterday with his wife Akshata Murty, and their two young daughters, Krishna and Anoushka. The outing came on the same day Greenpeace activists […]
Britain’s economy has been labelled as a “frog slowly being cooked by ever-higher interest rates” by experts. The comments come after the Bank of England made the decision to raise interest rates to 5.25 percent, piling further pressure on mortgage holders. This is the 14th successive time the BoE has raised interest rates in its […]
Ministers are preparing for a new pandemic that could kill 840,000 people after sweeping through half the population. The worst case scenario for a deadly infection to hit the UK after spreading across the globe would also leave around 1.3 million Britons needing hospital treatment. Experts expect a respiratory disease to be the most likely […]
Beyond splitting the centre-left vote at the last General Election and handing Boris a thumping 80-seat majority, I’ve never had much cause to be grateful for the existence of the Liberal Democrats. Yesterday, however, a miracle happened. They rode to my rescue in a way that left me – and many others in my social […]