Labour will unveil plans today to reverse Tory cuts to 3,000 bus routes which have “devastated” communities in England and Wales. And new funding of £1.3bn a year will not only reinstate many bus services, but provide cash for new bus routes. The bus ‘revival’ will be funded by revenue from Vehicle Excise Duty, which […]
The longest-serving Republican in the Iowa legislature announced that he would become a Democrat, warning that his party of many decades would soon pay “a heavy price” for its support of President Trump. The lawmaker, Representative Andy McKean, served a combined 24 years in the Iowa House and Senate between 1979 and 2003 and then […]
Rachel Johnson and Gavin Esler have been unveiled as some of Change UK’s candidates for the upcoming European elections. They were among 70 people from a mix of backgrounds who gathered in Bristol on Tuesday to present themselves as the “Remain alliance”. Leader Heidi Allen said more than 3,500 people had offered to stand in […]
Mr Kershaw claimed the scenario would be the “worst case” and that the UK’s departure from the EU could instead unite the remaining 27 members. The historian told German news website T-Online: “In the worst case, Brexit may become the beginning of the end of the EU. But it could also be that the rest […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. House Democrats’ views vary on how to proceed after last week’s release of a redacted version of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Monday. In a letter to fellow Democratic lawmakers, Pelosi said it is “important to know that the facts regarding holding the president […]
Donald Trump has made an enormous error in a tweet mourning those killed by what appear to have been a series of terror attacks in Sri Lanka. The US President inflated the death toll by around a million times its original figure in the latest offensive blunder to come from the White House. Latest reports […]
The Tory candidate for London mayor has been slammed after he appeared to dismiss homelessness and the NHS funding crisis as "all hype". Shaun Bailey was branded "tone deaf" and criticised by Labour's shadow equalities minister over the comments on his Twitter account. Mr Bailey made the comments in a video he posted that showed […]
It's a tough schedule but Jeremy Corbyn’s not complaining. While Theresa May was off strolling in Snowdonia, the Labour leader was pounding the campaign trail up north, where the effects of years of cuts and deprivation are plain to see. Before lunchtime on Monday, he had done 11 separate media interviews, fired a bow and […]
Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister isn’t sounding like he’s going to call an early election any time soon. In an interview with 680 CJOB, the premier once again said he is focused on a potential flood this spring. The premier said that even when the flood threat subsides, the opposition parties will be given fair notice […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said on Friday he was “sickened” by the dishonesty of U.S. President Donald Trump and people around him as portrayed in a report on Russia’s attempts to influence the 2016 election. Romney, now a U.S. senator from Utah and an off-and-on Trump critic, was responding to […]