Boris Johnson’s plan to cut income tax for those earning more than £50,000 would cost around £9bn and mainly benefit the top 10% of earners, a respected economic think-tank has said. The Institute for Fiscal Studies has looked into the Tory leadership frontrunner’s headline-grabbing pledge, which has been criticised by opposition parties and fellow contenders […]

BERLIN — European officials on Monday appeared cool toward U.S. talk of building a global coalition against Iran, with the German foreign minister warning that “maximum pressure” without diplomacy increases the risks of a war and several others stressing that their priority is to de-escalate tensions in the Middle East. The split over Iran comes […]

Boris Johnson has again refused to answer questions over a row with his girlfriend Carrie Symonds that led to police being called to their home. Early on Friday, police were called to the PM hopeful's home after neighbours heard a loud altercation between him and Ms Symonds. He has also refused to answer questions about […]

Scotland’s First Minister Ms Sturgeon launched a blistering attack against Brexit and Whitehall, accusing Theresa May’s Government of leaving constitutional conventions “in shreds”. Delivering a vitriolic speech at the Law Society of Scotland conference on two decades of devolution, Ms Sturgeon said: “20 years on from the establishment of our Parliament, we face the most […]

Since Jeannette Rankin became the first woman elected to Congress in 1916, the numbers game for women in elected office has been marked by largely glacial progress. But a new report lays out the extent to which women and people of color have gained ground in elections around the country over the last two years. […]

SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Mayor Pete Buttigieg faced a tense crowd at a town-hall event in South Bend on Sunday, fielding questions about a shooting by a city police officer last week as the audience booed, applauded and shouted over him. Mr. Buttigieg, seated on a stage next to the police chief, responded calmly to […]

SOUTH BEND, Indiana (Reuters) – Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg on Sunday faced growing fallout over a fatal police shooting in South Bend, an incident that has exposed simmering racial tensions in the Indiana city where he is mayor and which is complicating his presidential ambitions. Buttigieg answered questions at a frequently raucous and angry […]

The poll, conducted by France’s Ifop last week, showed Mr Macron’s ratings remain at 30 percent this month amid rising tensions in the French capital. Only 30 percent of French citizens were in favour of the French President, while 67 percent of them disapproved of him, the poll found. His popularity remained the same since last […]

The Shadow Chancellor said he would install a person able to “meet the requirements of what will be a radical Labour Government”, a newly re-surfaced September 2018 interview has revealed. Mr McDonnell told left-wing media organisation Novara Media: “When we move forward what we will want to have is someone in the Bank of England […]

Boris Johnson is one of the two final candidates still in the race to place Theresa May as Conservative Party leader – and prime minister. Yesterday he began his campaign among the grassroots Conservative Party members speaking out about what he hopes to achieve if elected to replace Mrs May. However, on Friday, he made […]