Jeremy Corbyn today slammed a shock plan by Iain Duncan Smith's think tank to hike the state pension age to 75. Labour's leader joined condemnation of the "discriminatory" proposal by the Centre for Social Justice – which is chaired by the Tory former welfare chief. He told an audience in Northamptonshire: " Labour won’t tell […]
Jeremy Corbyn will today accuse Boris Johnson of being “Britain’s Trump, the fake populist and phoney outsider” as he urges voters to back Labour if a snap general election is called in the autumn. The Labour leader will say a national poll will provide a “once-in-a-generation chance” for a change of direction of politics on […]
Boris Johnson has vowed he will deliver Brexit, “do or die”, by Halloween. But Ms Miller, who won a High Court case against the Government over the involvement of Parliament in Britain’s departure from the bloc, insisted on Sky’s Sophy Ridge on Sunday that the Prime Minister could not prorogue Parliament to push through a no-deal […]
Gavin Shuker says the independents and Change MPs who would not serve under Jeremy Corbyn would do anything possible not to support him. He claimed there are even some MPs from the Labour Party who “can’t bring themselves” to back their leader. Mr Shuker told The Sun: “There are Labour MPs who admit privately they […]
Manitoba’s NDP has announced a plan to increase the number of hours Winnipeg’s seven ACCESS Centres are open. ACCESS Centres offer health and social services that vary from community to community. “Health care is an important part of families’ busy lives,” says Manitoba’s NDP Leader Wab Kinew. Manitoba NDP Leader Wab Kinew makes the announcement […]
Greenland has said it’s not for sale, but that didn’t stop top White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow from adding fuel to the idea that the Trump administration wants to purchase the world’s largest island from Denmark. Speaking with “Fox News Sunday,” Kudlow, the director of the National Economic Council, said the administration is “looking […]
Former Tory minister Dominic Grieve yesterday blamed Boris Johnson for a series of death threats against him. The ex-Attorney General claimed the PM was a “demagogue” whose “tub-thumping populism” directly led extremists to threaten his life. He told BBC’s Good Morning Scotland: “I want to save the Tory Party from the likes of Mr Johnson. […]
The Labour leader wants to lead a temporary administration set up with the purpose of blocking no deal and calling a general election. But an alliance of anti-no deal alliance MPs, including senior politicians such as former attorney general Dominic Grieve, have joined the Lib Dems and refused to back Mr Corbyn’s scheme to unseat […]
WASHINGTON — Representative Joseph P. Kennedy III of Massachusetts is considering a primary challenge next year against Senator Edward J. Markey, according to a senior Democratic official. Such a race could substantially alter the state’s political landscape and has the potential to elevate a fourth member of a Democratic dynasty to the Senate. Mr. Kennedy, […]
Sometimes the self-declared greatest counterpuncher in the world lands a blow on the wrong person. That was the case on Thursday night, when President Trump fat-shamed a man who he thought was a protester being disruptive in the upper rungs of the stadium in Manchester, N.H., where the president was holding a campaign rally. Instead, […]