A YOUNG woman who was six months pregnant was forced out of rented accommodation because her landlord did not want other tenants disturbed by a crying child, the Dáil has been told. Sinn Féin TD Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire told fellow TDs that the case was brought to light by housing charity Threshold whose officials also […]
Children of working mothers were “unloved and undisciplined” and are more likely to “mug you on the street corner”, Boris Johnson once claimed. The Prime Minister whose past views have come back to haunt him on the election trail last week faced a furious backlash after an attack on single mothers was unearthed. Today another […]
Donald Trump has cancelled a press conference after calling Justin Trudeau 'two faced' at the NATO summit. When asked if he’d seen the video of the Canadian President talking about him at Buckingham Palace last night, Trump pulled no punches. “Well he’s two faced," the US president said. “And honestly with Trudeau he’s a nice […]
Is this the most important election of my lifetime as everyone keeps telling me? It’s certainly the most bizarrely timed. The last December election in the UK was held in 1923 and hearing political debates in the midst of John Lewis ads jars slightly like, don’t they know it’s Christmas? I would so much rather […]
WASHINGTON — The first time that Senator John Kennedy, Republican of Louisiana, went on a Sunday television talk show and suggested that it might have been Ukraine, rather than Russia, that interfered in the 2016 election, he drew so much criticism that he quickly apologized. But the following week, Mr. Kennedy was back on the […]
SAN DIEGO (Reuters) – U.S. Representative Duncan Hunter, a leading California conservative, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to a single federal charge of conspiring to misuse campaign funds in a corruption case that could help Democrats gain his traditionally Republican seat. The felony offense carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison, but his attorney […]
Election 2019 forecasts have been in flux recently as the end of the campaign cycle is in sight. Current polls suggest the Labour party is climbing towards the Conservatives at a snail’s pace, but one map suggests they won’t be able to close the distance before December 12. According to a map recently released by […]
Boris Johnson has been accused of plagiarism after writing a thread of tweets about “inaccuracies” in reports about the London Bridge attacker. The Secret Barrister, a blogger and author, claims their post on Usman Khan’s sentencing was lifted and used by Mr Johnson in a 16-strong series of tweets which began: “The terrible Khan case […]
Polling has suggested Dominic Raab could be at risk to tactical voting from Remain-backing voters in his Esher and Walton seat. The Foreign Secretary won the Surrey constituency with a comfortable makority of 23,000 in 2017 but the new data suggests the ardent Brexiteer who backed no deal, is likely to come under pressure from […]
Yesterday Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell revealed British pensioners on £20,000 a year would be forced to pay an extra £1,000 in tax under a Labour government, despite Jeremy Corbyn’s insistence those earning under £80,000 would not be forced to hand over extra money. Pensioners would fork out the money under changes capital gains and dividends. […]