Jeremy Corbyn has been warned more Labour MPs could walk out the door after seven quit in a historic clash over Brexit and anti-Semitism. Labour’s leader is under mounting pressure after Chuka Umunna, Luciana Berger, Mike Gapes, Angela Smith, Gavin Shuker, Chris Leslie and Ann Coffey announced they had left and branded themselves "The Independent […]
Politics is a lot like football. Both involve people working in a team. One week you can be top of the league, the next week, you might slip a place. But I’ve never for one minute wanted to give up my devotion for my team. I’ve seen at first-hand what Labour Governments can achieve in […]
It’s the HQ of Britain’s newest political movement. You might have expected the Independent Group’s office to be a glittering palace of Remain – a testament to its fresh, "evidence-based" take on politics. You might not expect to find this EU-loving powerhouse above a Wetherspoons – whose founder is a thumping Brexiteer. And you definitely […]
Beleaguered Theresa May and warring Conservatives can’t believe their luck as the big winners from seven Labour MPs splitting from the party over Jeremy Corbyn, Europe and anti-Semitism. I’d add personal disappointment in some cases, ex Ministers and Shadow Ministers on the Right of the party disgruntled they’re no longer big shots in a Left-wing […]
(Reuters) – Former top FBI official Andrew McCabe decried the “relentless attack” he said U.S. President Donald Trump has launched against the agency, according to released excerpts of an interview with NPR’s Morning Edition, to be aired early Monday. “I think the FBI has been under a relentless attack in the last two years,” said […]
Social media giants like Facebook could face criminal sanctions under plans being considered by the Culture Secretary. Jeremy Wright said he would look at "all possible options for penalties" in the Government’s forthcoming White Paper on online harms, as pressure mounted on internet companies to take action to safeguard vulnerable people. It comes as a […]
Former Massachusetts Governor Bill Weld, the first Republican to challenge President Donald Trump for their party’s presidential nomination in 2020, said on Sunday that six more years of Trump’s “antics” in the White House would be bad for America. Weld said the national emergency that Trump declared on Friday to obtain funding for a wall […]
Tory Brexiteers are plotting to demand Theresa May’s job as the price to push through her EU deal. Jacob Rees-Mogg’s rebel European Research Group want her to quit as PM after local elections on May 2. In return they will vote for her deal in Parliament so she can hit her March 29 deadline for […]
The decision by Amazon this week to abandon its planned headquarters in New York City tapped into one of the major themes of left-wing Democrats: that giant corporations — and in some cases the billionaires who run them — must be held to account for wage inequality, corporate greed and middle-class stagnation. And some contenders […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Senate Finance Committee has launched an inquiry into meetings in 2015 between top Obama administration officials, a Russian central banker and Maria Butina, who has pleaded guilty to conspiring to work as a Russian agent to influence American foreign policy. The bipartisan inquiry, announced jointly by the panel’s Chairman Charles […]