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Keir Starmer today refused to say that taxes will not rise again despite Rachel Reeves making the pledge to business. In bad-tempered clashes at PMQs, the premier insisted he was ‘not going to write the next five years of Budgets right here at this despatch box’. Tory leader Kemi Badenoch swiped that the burden would […]
Starmer dismisses online petition calling for general election, saying it’s driven by people who never backed Labour anyway This is what Keir Starmer told ITV’s Good Morning Britain when asked about the online petition signed by 2 million people calling for an election on the grounds that “the current Labour government have gone back on […]
A former PC tweeting a joke about identifying as a fish and a boy calling another a ‘leprechaun’ are further examples of so-called ‘hate incidents’ investigated by police. Non-crime hate incidents (NCHIs) are meant to be reserved for cases that are ‘clearly motivated by intentional hostility’ and where there is a genuine risk of significant […]
Trump trade drives pound down to four-month low against the dollar Donald Trump’s election victory last week is continuing to shift the markets. The pound has dropped to its lowest level against the US dollar since early July this morning, down half a cent to $1.2653. On election day, sterling was worth $1.30, but it […]
It was a budget the chancellor said would “match the greatest economic moments in Labour history”, and for the occasion Rachel Reeves chose to wear a garment to match the moment: a pussybow blouse. The UK’s first female chancellor knows more than most how the way female politicians dress can be picked over and weaponised. […]
This is the shocking moment a Labour MP punched a male constituent and hit him repeatedly while he lay on the ground. Mike Amesbury had yesterday claimed he was ‘threatened’ before the attack at 2.15am on Saturday morning in his constituency of Runcorn and Helsby, Cheshire. But CCTV footage exclusively obtained by the Mail shows […]
Two weeks ahead of a potentially era-defining US election, and with the world’s recent inflation crisis barely behind it, ministers and central bankers gathering in the nation’s capital face intensifying calls to get their fiscal houses in order while they still can. Source link
Starmer under pressure to accept case for slavery reparations, as Commonwealth minister claims UK will eventually agree Keir Starmer has been told by Commonwealth leaders he must come to the table to discuss reparations for the “ill effects” of slavery, PA Media reports. Commonwealth nations are looking at an agreement that could begin conversations on […]