Speculation is mounting in Westminster about which MP could be next to quit their party and join the new Independent Group. Labour’s deputy leader Tom Watson has admitted if the party does not change “we may see more” groups of MPs leaving. Several of his backbenchers, and those from the Tory side have hinted their […]

A Tory defector today said she wants to DESTROY the Conservative Party. Heidi Allen claimed if the new-look Independent Group does its job right, "there won’t be a Tory party to go back to". Letting loose after she quit in a trio of Tory resignations today, she savaged Downing Street for presiding over a "dysfunctional" […]

WASHINGTON — Just over 24 hours after announcing his presidential bid, Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont has already raised $6 million from more than 225,000 donors, his campaign said Wednesday morning. That amount far surpasses what any of his rivals have disclosed raising after their own announcements this year. [Check out the Democratic field with […]

HEALTH Simon Harris has survived a motion of no confidence by five votes. After a sometimes fiery debate, an attempt by Sinn Féin to oust him from office was defeated by 58 votes to 53. Fianna Fáil abstained under the confidence and supply arrangement. Earlier, In a robust defence of his minister’s record, Leo Varadkar […]

Simcoe-Grey MPP Jim Wilson has returned to Queen’s Park after his sudden resignation last year and a subsequent Global News investigation that revealed Wilson was the subject of sexual misconduct allegations by a male Queen’s Park Staffer. Wilson will now sit as an independent MPP after being asked to leave PC Caucus. “I want to […]

Some of the lustre has worn off the Cambridge North Dumfries contest for the federal Progressive Conservative nomination as former Cambridge mayor Doug Craig announced that he was pulling out of the race. The 72-year-old was set for a showdown with CTV News Kitchener reporter Tyler Calver and longtime Cambridge public school board trustee Cindy […]

TAOISEACH Leo Varadkar has claimed the overrun in costs for the National Children’s Hospital is as a result of experts underestimating the budget needed. During heated scenes in the Dáil, Mr Varadkar and opposition leaders accused each other of engaging in spin over the controversy. He said TDs are going around the country falsely claiming […]

RALEIGH, N.C. (Reuters) – North Carolina election officials on Tuesday were to hear a second day of evidence concerning what investigators called a Republican political operative’s scheme to tip a congressional race in his party’s favor with unlawful absentee ballots. The probe into the disputed Nov. 6 election for the state’s 9th Congressional District seat […]

TORONTO – A coalition of student groups and education-sector unions are calling on the Ontario government to reverse planned cuts to post-secondary grants. The groups say the cuts announced last month will increase student debt, limit access to higher education and hurt student voices at Ontario colleges and universities. The Canadian Federation of Students, the […]

Senator Bernie Sanders, the Vermont independent and 2016 Democratic primary runner-up whose populist policy agenda has helped push the party to the left, announced on Tuesday that he was running for president again, embarking on a bid that will test whether he can retain the anti-establishment appeal he enjoyed with many liberal voters three years […]