Politics

CRITICISM HAS RAINED down on Tory Transport Secretary Chris Grayling MP, who has announced the route of a new Lower Thames crossing. The Government will be going ahead with “Option C”: a new tunnel going under Green Belt land and crossing ...

THE UK UNEMPLOYMENT rate has remained virtually unchanged over the last quarter for which figures are available. The official figure stood at 1.56 million at the end of February – down just 45,000 over the previous three months. To have ...

THE LABOUR PARTY has warned that the Government’s Brexit deal must meet its six tests to win support from Labour MPs. The Party’s Shadow Brexit Secretary, Keir Starmer, promised to reveal what the six tests are on Monday. Starmer was ...

MEMBERS OF Tower Hamlets Momentum joined thousands of others to march in support of the NHS on Saturday, 4th March. Police estimates put the size of the demonstration at 250,000 – one of the largest demonstrations in London this century. ...

THERESA MAY took her Brexit rhetoric to the world stage today. In the manner of a stand-up comedian doing a warm up tour, she began the week with a speech at Lancaster House, an offshoot of the Foreign Office – where ...

LABOUR’S TRISTRAM HUNT has resigned as an MP to become the new Director of the V&A museum. There will have to be a by-election in his Stoke Central constituency and already political commentators in the mainstream media are frothing at ...

LEN McCLUSKEY, General Secretary of the Unite trade union, has given his full support to a government campaign to raise awareness of the minimum wage – but he has warned that sanctions on employers who are found out breaking the ...

THE LABOUR PARTY has launched a public consultation over its “industrial strategy” – in other words, its policy on how to run the economy, which will form the basis of its next manifesto and campaigning up to the 2020 General ...

CLIVE LEWIS MP, Labour’s Shadow Business Secretary, has called for the creation of more useful jobs for ordinary people – while condemning business leaders who continue to pay themselves stratospheric salaries. Lewis was speaking out after The High Pay Centre ...

LABOUR SHADOW Secretary of State for Women and Equalities, Sarah Champion MP, has called for the Government to tackle the underlying long term causes of the pay gap. She was speaking after the Resolution Foundation revealed that young women entering ...