If you missed the news on Friday, or haven’t watched television at all this week, the newly minted presidential candidate Michael R. Bloomberg made a splashy and expensive entrance into the 2020 race, dropping more than $30 million for one week’s worth of television ads across the country. It’s the most expensive week for a […]
The latest round of talks to try and restore devolved government in Northern Ireland will start days after the general election. Northern Ireland Secretary Julian Smith said the discussions have been scheduled for 16 December – four days after voters go to the polls – “whatever the situation” at Westminster. If there is no breakthrough […]
Throughout the weeks in the lead-up to the party’s manifesto launch last week, Jeremy Corbyn had insisted its policies would mean only businesses and those earning more than £80,000 would pay tax. But the Labour Party scrapping the marriage tax allowance led many experts to highlight how many others would pay a lot more, and […]
Under Labour’s billion pound pledge Theresa May would be entitled to a £21,910 compensation. The former Prime Minister falls into a Labour compensation category for women who have, in Jeremy Corbyn’s words, “lost a lot of money”. This bonus would be seen under Labour’s £58 billion plan to reimburse more than three mullion women left […]
The 10 constituencies top the Tories’ hit-list, with the tightest – Dudley North in the West Midlands – won by Labour by just 22 votes in 2017. Added together, the overall majority amounts to just 10,355 votes out of a total UK electorate of just under 46 million. If the Tories were to win 5,186 extra votes […]
Labour is putting a radical overhaul of social care at the centre of a plan to restore OAPs’ “dignity and respect”. Jeremy Corbyn will tomorrow announce seven bold pledges to improve pensioners’ lives. He said: “The Tories have let down a generation of older people.” Mr Corbyn will make the revolutionary offer to millions of […]
WASHINGTON — The military dog who chased a terrorist to his death in October has recovered from her wounds and has since gone on “very important raids,” President Trump said on Monday as he stood near the dog during a last-minute appearance in the Rose Garden. “I actually think Conan knew exactly what was going […]
The Supreme Court on Monday returned a challenge to Alaska’s limits on campaign contributions to a lower court, suggesting that the limits were too low. The court also turned away appeals from defendants in a libel suit over climate change and from Adnan Syed, whose murder conviction was examined by the podcast “Serial.” And the […]
Boris Johnson has defended his general election promise of 50,000 more nurses following Labour claims it is “deceitful”. The prime minister unveiled the pledge at the launch of the Conservatives’ election manifesto on Sunday. But Labour insist it includes 19,000 nurses who the government hopes to dissuade from leaving the NHS. They also claimed 12,000 […]
SHANE Ross said that despite reports from Fine Gael that they were prepared to go to “all-out war” over the Transport Minister’s new speeding penalty plans, he has not been contacted by any of those who claim to be against it. Rural Fine Gael ministers are plotting to derail plans for graduated speed penalties which […]