Politics

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 ...

THE LABOUR candidate who recently called her Independent challenger “confused” is now confusing voters herself by appearing to support a Labour rebel pamphlet on “Brexit” policy. Two days ago, Labour candidate Chuka Umunna launched a pamphlet entitled Stop Hard Brexit: ...

THERESA MAY has responded to the news that no Tory candidates will be charged with a criminal offence as a result of the “battle bus” incident by declaring “We did nothing wrong.” She is wrong to do so: the Election ...

LABOUR’S RUSHANARA ALI has dismissed Ajmal Masroor’s challenge to her as “confusing” and told him to go and stand for election somewhere else. Rushanara Ali, the outgoing Labour MP for Bethnal Green & Bow, is Labour’s official candidate in the ...

IT WAS BAD NEWS for Theresa May this morning as figures from two sources hinted that all is not well with house prices – which could be an early sign that the economy is far from healthy. House prices are ...

THERESA MAY started out bottling it – refusing to appear on TV in a debate with Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn. She was above debating, in public, with a man she (and most of the media) is trying to rubbish – ...

UKIP WAS trounced in last week’s local elections – but their influence on UK politics continues. First, it was UKIP pressure for an “in/out” referendum on the EU that got the UK into its current Brexit predicament. However, the UKIP ...

JIM FITZPATRICK has pledged to help a local campaign which is trying to stop government funding of Tower Hamlets schools being slashed. The outgoing MP, who is Labour’s candidate for Poplar & Limehouse in the coming General Election, was speaking this ...