Jeremy Corbyn today vowed to take on the drug companies after meeting a nine year-old boy denied life-saving treatment. The Labour leader pledged to stop big pharma firms from exploiting the NHS by charging sky-high fees for vital medicines. He was inspired to act after Cystic Fibrosis sufferer Luis Walker handed him a letter asking […]
The former Conservative Party leader said the need for a “centre-right party is greater than ever” after Jeremy Corbyn announced his plot to abolish private schools at the Labour Party conference. Mr Hague said the move would leave the taxpayers with a £3billion bill as he put pressure on Boris Johnson’s government to stamp out […]
Boris Johnson has suffered a crucial loss in the Supreme Court today, as justices have decided his decision to prorogue parliament this month was not lawful. Baroness Hale read out the court’s decision this morning, in which she declared the Prime Minister’s move was unlawful, and Parliament was never prorogued. MPs reacted outside the Supreme […]
This morning the Supreme Court will announce its verdict as to whether Boris Johnson’s five-week prorogation of Parliament was lawful if he misled the Queen when asking for her approval. The High Court in London ruled in favour of the Government, stating the prorogation was “purely political” and not something for the courts to rule […]
Boris Johnson has continued to dodge questions over claims he failed to declare potential conflicts of interest about his relationship with a US former model. The Prime Minister stonewalled reporters who quizzed him about model-turned-businesswoman Jennifer Arcuri, apparently given £126,000 in grants from public money during his flight to New York. And asked again about […]
Labour Party members have backed a move to “integrate” private schools into the state sector, approving the motion to be included in the party’s next general election manifesto. The vote in favour of the motion came after shadow education secretary Angela Rayner said a future Labour government would scrap the “tax loopholes” which benefit private […]
The shadow chancellor said no to becoming the successor to the veteran left-winger before highlighting a series of Labour MPs who could become the party’s first elected female leader. He told The Times: “If Jeremy got hit by the No 57 bus, or whatever it is, there’s the next generation coming through. “And the reality […]
Elizabeth Warren did not want a goodbye party. She told her aides there would be no grand send-off, no celebration of a mission accomplished. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau had been her idea from the start: a new arm of the government, uniquely empowered to police the kinds of loans and financial schemes that led […]
Simon Coveney said if Boris Johnson pulled the UK out of the EU without a withdrawal deal it would pose a risk to the 1998 Good Friday Agreement. The country’s second most powerful politician told BBC Radio: “Trade across 300 road crossings that has created a normality and a peace that is settled on the […]
WASHINGTON — For months this spring and summer, Ukraine’s newly elected president, Volodymyr Zelensky, tried to deflect pressure from President Trump and his allies to pursue investigations into former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., Mr. Biden’s son and other Trump rivals. The pressure was so relentless that Mr. Zelensky dispatched one of his closest […]