Theresa May's government has threatened to go to war with the Commons Speaker to ram through a vote on Brexit . The dramatic threat was issued today by the Brexit Secretary after John Bercow BLOCKED a third vote on the Prime Minister's deal. Theresa May had hoped MPs would have one last vote tonight or […]
Theresa May is mulling her next steps this morning after her Brexit plan was spectacularly torpedoed by the House of Commons Speaker. John Bercow warned she would not be able to hold yet another vote on her deal unless she makes it "substantially" different. This means getting a new offer from the EU at a […]
With children to feed as the money runs out every month, mums say they are selling their bodies to survive the Tories’ benefit changes. MPs are today set to launch an inquiry following warnings that the Government’s controversial Universal Credit is pushing people into sex work. A mum who has turned to selling sex said: […]
Jason Kenney vehemently defended both himself and the actions of his leadership campaign’s senior team on Monday after emails obtained by some media outlets — including Global News — over the weekend suggested his team worked with an adversary in the UCP race to defeat his primary rival. “There was staff communicating on communications material […]
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Alan Krueger, a prominent Princeton University economics professor who advised U.S. Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, took his own life over the weekend, his family said in a statement on Monday. He was 58. The statement did not elaborate about the circumstances of Krueger’s death, nor did the university when […]
Below is a full list of the candidates in the riding of Fort Saskatchewan-Vegreville, an area located in rural central Alberta just east of Edmonton. Quick take The current representative for Fort Saskatchewan-Vegreville is the New Democratic Party’s Jessica Littlewood, who was first elected in the 2015 provincial election. Candidates NDP: Jessica Littlewood (Incumbent)United Conservative […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Beto O’Rourke raised more than $6.1 million within 24 hours of announcing his candidacy for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, his campaign said on Monday, highlighting his fundraising prowess in a crowded field. The former three-term Texas congressman’s haul put him at the top of a Democratic pack of more than a […]
A top mental health charity today blasted new plans to put mental health advisors in JobCentres. JobCentre staff will be able to refer claimants for treatment under the scheme by Tory Amber Rudd – with vulnerable people even assessed in the Jobcentre itself. The Work and Pensions Secretary said the scheme, to be trialled in […]
A disgraced MP has pleaded with voters not to remove her from the House of Commons as she insisted she is innocent – despite being found guilty by a court. A recall petition will open on Tuesday, in which local voters will be asked whether Fiona Onasanya should lose her seat as MP for Peterborough. […]
Good Monday morning. Here are some of the stories making news in Washington and politics today. _____________________ • Support for legal recreational marijuana has become a unifying policy in the 2020 Democratic primary. But it’s not an appeal to the stoner vote — the issue is a litmus test for candidates’ commitment to equal treatment […]