The Chancer of the Exchequer has some brass neck to pat himself on the back when economic growth’s slashed by a quarter this year. Official forecasts it’ll expand by less than 2% in each of the next five years is a poor record, Brexit or no Brexit. And Hammond has some cheek to shout wages […]
Last night The Prime Minister was humiliated and the country was thrown into a political crisis after MPs rejected her new Brexit deal. The House of Commons voted 391-242 against Theresa May’s plan – just 56 days after it suffered the biggest defeat in history. Understandably, people are feeling a range of emotions right now, […]
Boris Johnson has said police spending on child sexual abuse investigations was "spaffed up a wall". The Former Foreign Secretary said the money spent investigating historic cases of child abuse would be better spent elsewhere. His comments came just hours after Cardinal George Pell was jailed for six years in Australia for abusing two 13-year-old […]
California Governor Gavin Newsom will impose a moratorium on the state’s death penalty on Wednesday, granting reprieves to all 737 inmates on death row and closing the state’s execution chamber, an administration source said. Newsom, who on Tuesday night hinted at a “major policy announcement,” plans to sign an executive order setting the changes in place on Wednesday […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The top Republican on the U.S. House Armed Services Committee said on Tuesday he opposed President Donald Trump’s plan to use $7 billion from the military budget to build a wall on the border with Mexico. Representative Mac Thornberry said he backs the wall, but not with Pentagon funds, calling Trump’s overall […]
WASHINGTON — If President Trump allows states to convert Medicaid into a block grant with a limit on health care spending for low-income people, he will face a firestorm of opposition in Congress, House Democrats told the nation’s top health official on Tuesday. The official, Alex M. Azar II, the secretary of health and human […]
So she lost. But, as predicted, the margin was a little smaller than the first meaningful vote back in January. And so the prime minister and her team may well now conclude there is merit in, believe it or not, trying again. The president of the European Commission, Jean Claude Juncker, insisted 24 hours ago […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Senator Richard Blumenthal, one of several U.S. lawmakers drafting online privacy legislation, said on Tuesday that he wanted to see California’s privacy law, which takes effect next year, to be the basis for a federal bill. Blumenthal, a Democrat, spoke at a hearing at which Google senior privacy counsel Will DeVries came […]
When MPs filed through the division lobbies to deliver their verdict on Theresa May ‘s latest Brexit plan it was the climax of the most dramatic 24 hours yet for Brexit. A last-ditch, cross-Channel dash to France for crisis talks, a late-night press conference, a tense showdown with Tory MPs, and a devastating legal opinion […]
Last night, as Theresa May sent word that she’s secured more Brexit concessions from Strasbourg, the UK’s anti-EU party had an announcement to make. UKIP has polled at almost 10% for much of the decade and won the 2014 European Elections. Their core purpose – their very reason to exist – is to ensure Britain […]