Politics

MOHAMMAD JAMEL, a senior economist at the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML), has said that the housing market seems to be “moving sideways”. He was speaking after the CML released figures showing that mortgages worth £18.4 billion had been advanced ...

THERE’S NO SUCH thing as a free lunch – or, in this General Election, a free breakfast. The funding for the free school breakfast which Theresa May offered the nation will only cover a 25% uptake. Oh dear. The policy ...

QUESTIONS ARE being asked about why the USA has been kept so closely informed about the Manchester suicide bombing. It began on the night, when US officials were the first to announce that the explosion in the Manchester Arena had ...

There are surprisingly few statements about the Manchester attack being made in Tower Hamlets. Here we print a statement from the East London Mosque and then such comments from prominent party political leaders as we have been able to find. ...

LABOUR’S official candidate for Bethnal Green & Bow, Rushanara Ali, seems to be suffering from “May’s disease” – a distaste for appearing on TV alongside her main rival. This is Ms Ali’s third General Election as a candidate, but knowing ...

Mohammed Rabbani, International Director of CAGE, said: (charged under Section 7 of the Terrorism Act 2000): “This should be a moment of pride and celebration for Muslims. There are some members of our community that are not just going to complain, ...

IT’S OFFICIAL: UK prices are rising by 2.7% per year – smashing the Bank of England’s attempts to keep the rate below 2%. That’s off target by a whopping 33% and a staggering 0.4% up on last month’s annual figure. ...

EMPLOYERS ARE predicting that pay rises this year will come in at around 1%. With inflation at 2.3% and rising, most of us are in for a pay cut in real terms. The employers’ predicted level of increase has fallen ...

LABOUR HAS promised to spend an extra £37 billion on the NHS if it forms a government on 9th June. The Tories have promised no extra funding and are relying on their record: oh dear. Labour says that £10 billion ...

FIRST IT WAS “tough on immigration”. Now it’s “workers’ rights”. Tory boss Theresa May is angling for working class votes across the Midlands and the North of England as she attempts to win a mandate for five more years of ...