Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has called for a general election 50 times this year, according to the Daily Telegraph. But he voted against two motions to hold a snap election on October 15 last week and on Monday. He said he wanted to support the motion once the Benn bill had received royal assent. Rupert Lowe, MEP […]
The no-deal Brexit chaos feared by towns throughout Britain has been laid bare in a fresh cache of documents. Risk assessment documents revealed by 63 town halls reveal councils expect traffic chaos, water shortages and rubbish piling up in the streets within days if Britain leaves the EU without a deal. More than two-thirds of […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Senate voted on Thursday to confirm Federal Reserve Governor Michelle Bowman to a full 14-year term. Bowman’s current term had been set to expire in January. The Senate voted to confirm her to a full term by a vote of 60 to 31. A former Kansas state banking regulator, Bowman […]
On just the second day of the federal election campaign, a Conservative candidate from Winnipeg is stepping down over his social media posts. In a release sent to media late in the day Thursday, the Conservative Party of Canada said Winnipeg North candidate Cameron Ogilvie will no longer be running for the party. “Mr. Ogilvie’s […]
Boris Johnson is bracing himself for the mother of all legal battles this coming week over his controversial decision to suspend parliament in the run up to Brexit. Sky News takes a look at how we got here and what could happen next… Why has the government been taken to court? At the end of […]
Can there be a better symbol of these topsy-turvy times than the sight of Tommy Robinson leaving jail with the same half-arsed face fungus as your average radical Islamist? Finally, we can see Stephen Yaxley-Lennon's true colours. And he's got ginger pubes. Whether he looks more like a homeless Ian Beale, Jihadi Jack, Catweazel or […]
The Tories and Brexit Party have just entered into their first pact wresting control of Hartlepool council from Labour. It comes despite the Tories vehemently ruling out any election deal at a national level. Nine Independent Hartlepool councillors have defected to The Brexit Party and agreed to form a pro-Brexit coalition with three local Tories […]
Former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Julián Castro went after former Vice President Joe Biden during Thursday’s Democratic presidential debate, describing his health care plan as a betrayal of “the legacy of Barack Obama.” “I know that the problem with your plan is that it leaves 10 million people uncovered. Now, on the last […]
Party sources suggested Ms Foster might shift her red lines on Brexit and back a fresh deal which would see Northern Ireland abiding by some EU rules to remove the need for the Irish backstop. But she was quick to dismiss the reports and insisted any moves which made Northern Ireland different to the rest […]
Andrew Yang’s longshot campaign for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination generated some attention on Twitter earlier this week by promising he would do “something no presidential candidate has ever done before in history.” On Thursday night in Houston, Yang unveiled that something: His campaign will give 10 additional families $1,000 per month for a year — an […]