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 LEADER JEREMY CORBYN has put forward his strongest criticism of the Government’s approach to Brexit yet – warning that Chancellor Philip Hammond could be leading the UK into a trade war. The UK referendum on whether to leave the ...

GERMANY HAS just announced that Angela Merkel’s “open door” policy for refugees has been overturned in practice as well as forgotten in principle: only 280,000 people sought asylum in 2016 – down by 600,000 on 2015. Merkel’s original response to ...

THE ALL-PARTY Parliamentary Group on Social Integration has called on the Government to force all immigrants to the UK to learn English before they come to the UK or to enrol in classes as soon as they arrive. The Group, the ...

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 ...

Although the number of overt racist and anti-muslim attacks has slowed down from its post-Brexit peak, prejudice and misunderstanding in the general population continues to run high – and could boil over again. Ipsos Mori has now released the results ...

Labour’s Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions has slated government handling of the economy, following news that unemployment rose by 10,000 in the quarter up to August 2016. Although the official Office for National Statistics (ONS), downplayed in ...

We’ve all heard that race hate crimes have increased since the “Brexit” vote in the referendum – and now the British Transport Police have confirmed the trend. The Transport Police recorded 119 incidents which included allegations of racist abuse on ...

Owen Smith must be running out of options. He is still standing in the Labour Party leadership contest, but more and more members, supporters and commentators are asking why. Where has it all gone wrong for him? Let’s remind ourselves ...

A number of young black men have been shot by police in the USA in recent years – leading to the emergence of “Black Lives Matter”, which styles itself as “not a moment, but a movement”. This distinction comes because ...