Politics

Today’s official figures from the Office of National Statistics (ONS) show that the annual rate of inflation has nearly doubled – up from 0.6% in August to a full 1.0% in September. This increase in the Consumer Prices Index (CPI) ...

Jeremy Corbyn laid into the Tory Government today (politely, of course!) for doing nothing to alleviate the housing crisis. Speaking during Prime Minister’s Questions (PMQ), Corbyn pointed out that the Prime Minister had voted against a Labour amendment stating that ...

UK taxpayers are to fund the erection of a “keep the refugees out” wall in Calais, Home Office Minister Robert Godwill has confirmed. Building will begin any day. The wall, which will be 4 metres high, will seal the last ...

Ask the nearest UK school pupil about slavery and the chances are that they will tell you it was abolished in the UK in the 19th century. However, a new report from the Salvation Army has shown that slavery may ...

A member of the Labour Party has lashed out at his ex-wife, leaving her with wounds to her chest and hand. He walked free from court only because the ex-wife would not press charges because she did not want their ...

East London MP Diane Abbott MP led the condemnations of the Government’s Childhood Obesity Strategy, published today, dismissing it as a missed opportunity. The Strategy is one of the first pieces of Government domestic policy published by new Prime Minister ...

Questions were being asked about Owen Smith’s consistency as a Facebook post by Areeq Chowdhury detailed a meeting between the East London accountant and the rebel Labour MP who is trying to remove Jeremy Corbyn as Leader of the Labour ...

The five Labour Party members who began a legal action against the Labour Party over their election procedures have decided not to appeal to the Supreme Court. They have issued a statement confirming that the costs of further legal action ...

David “Baron” Blunkett is up to something – and he’s up to it with Brenda “Baroness” Dean. It could be not so much another outing for the Barron Knights as a case of the Barren Fights – but it could ...

Last week the Court of Appeal backed Labour’s NEC’s right to set voting conditions which can be seen to favour one of the two candidates – a move which has saddened the local Momentum group. The five had originally launched ...