Richard Tice has hit out at the BBC over an error in an article reporting that GB News breached Ofcom rules. The UK media regulator found GB News broke impartiality rules in an interview between presenter Martin Daubney and the Reform UK leader. In an article on the BBC’s website, Mr Daubney was incorrectly referred […]
AT least 119,000 working days were lost to industrial disputes in August, official figures have revealed. The majority of the strikes were in the health and social work sector, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said. Junior doctors and hospital consultants in England have staged a series of strikes in a long-running dispute over pay […]
Sir David, a Tory MP for nearly 40 years, was stabbed to death during a constituency surgery in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, in October 2021. The plaque was unveiled by Sir David’s wife, Julia Amess, at a ceremony attended by her mother Faith Arnold, daughter Katherine, Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle and Home Secretary Suella Braverman. Don’t […]
Former Culture Secretary Baroness Nicky Morgan has blasted tech firms that profit from websites that “do nothing but exploit the distress of victims” by spreading revenge porn. She called on big tech platforms to “do the right thing” and make the internet safer for women and girls by tackling the growth of sites that share […]
Lee Anderson’s interview with Suella Braverman did not break strict impartiality rules, media watchdog Ofcom has concluded – prompting the outspoken Tory Party deputy chairman to insist he was “as impartial as they come”. Mr Anderson’s chat with the Home Secretary prompted many on social media to voice their concerns about the appropriateness of her […]
Britain is “better off outside the European Union”, one of the co-founders of Facebook has said, urging PM Rishi Sunak to make the most of the UK’s hard-won Brexit freedoms. Dustin Moskovitz, who is now the CEO and majority owner of software firm Asana, worth an estimated £3.4billion, tipped the UK to become a world […]
After meeting with leaders in Israel, Saudi Arabia and Egypt this week, Rishi Sunak has said they had agreed “we need to do everything possible” to stop the spread of the war, but for some this is not enough. Writing on X (formally Twitter) today the Prime Minister said: “Britain stands together to reject terror, […]
Frances Fitzgerald said that hesitation towards introducing an EU-wide consent-based definition of rape, based on a legal argument that it does not fall under the banner of sexual exploitation, was “not acceptable”. Ms Fitzgerald and Swedish socialist MEP Evin Incir are leading the process to introduce EU-wide laws tackling domestic violence and violence against women. […]
Laws abolishing “no fault” evictions, which allow landlords to remove tenants without a reason, will be debated by MPs tomorrow after the Government chose to press ahead with the change despite opposition from some backbenchers. It follows claims that tenants in privately-rented accommodation are scared to ask for repairs or to challenge rent increases because […]
Rishi Sunak has caved in trying to scrap EU rules blocking house building after suffering a bloody nose at the by-election ballot box this week. The Prime Minister, who has been engaged in a diplomatic frenzy in the Middle East, had been hoping to reassure his party at home with some vote-attracting action. Labour overturned […]