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Oh dear. It is polling day in Holborn and St Pancras and the Greens are staring down the face of defeat. Zack Polanski has put his leadership on the...
Robert Jenrick is back out on the mean streets of London, taking shoplifters to task while the Met appears nowhere to be seen. In a new video,...
I am genuinely shocked as to the speed of this enquiry by the Israeli spokespeople!!! Normally it takes them months if not years. I think i smell a...
Oh dear. It seems that Andy Burnham, riding high off his successful conference speech, has now scored something of an own goal. The Prime Minister,...
The Makerfield test was meant to be at the heart of Andy Burnham’s government. When Burnham was elected as an MP back in June, he said: ‘A...
‘Andy Burnham wants to scrap the triple lock. Help us fight him.’ So reads the Tory party’s new ‘protect pensioners’ survey. But it just so...
The ‘far-left and Islamist’ organisation Friends of al-Aqsa lavished praise on Red Ed Miliband on the sidelines of Labour conference today. The...
Another day at Labour conference, another chance for the brightest sparks of the left to descend on Liverpool and make claims spectacularly out of...
A Labour government aide has suggested that Britain should spend billions of pounds compensating developing countries whose citizens come to work in...
You know things are going well at a party conference when you have to order your members to clap. In Liverpool today, a diktat went out to applaud at...
Ministers are being lobbied by the chief executive of a major British business to solve the NEETs crisis – by imposing a four-day week on top...
Red Ed Miliband has wasted no time at Labour conference, gallivanting around and boasting about his pro-Palestine credentials. The Foreign Secretary...
The Labour Party loves a bogeyman: Nigel Farage, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Benjamin Netanyahu. But at conference this year, the capitalist enemy du...
Ahead of Labour conference, Andy Burnham took to the regional airwaves today for a shameless exercise in pandering to the party faithful. Kicking off...
Red Ed Miliband was today slammed by the Tories over his cosy sit-down with Iran’s foreign minister on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly....
This year’s UN General Assembly was a hotbed of dissent and disagreement. World leaders tore into their enemies from the podium, while pious...
Zack Polanski was heckled by furious residents of Holborn and St Pancras at a Jewish community hustings this evening. The former breast-enhancer was...
Lucy Powell said the quiet bit out loud this morning as she all but admitted that Labour has given up – if, indeed, it was ever really trying – on...
Muslim activists in Birmingham have set their sights on national treasure John Cleese, demanding the comedian be cancelled over so-called...
Nigel Farage has turned to former English teacher Helen Jenner to restore order in Reform’s Welsh ranks. Jenner was today crowned the party’s new...
As if MPs haven’t wasted enough time on Gaza, a select committee has found another pressing national crisis to investigate: why Britain is so crap...
As if MPs haven’t wasted enough time on Gaza, a select committee has found another pressing national crisis to investigate: why Britain is so crap...
Zack Polanski was left red-faced at City Hall this morning after Lord Khan of Tooting answered a question from the Green leader in Urdu. In a...
The general secretary of the Trades Union Congress appears to be a man of many talents – at least in his own estimation. Paul Nowak yesterday...
Ooh là là, Zack Polanski is at it again. Two days after his Urdu campaign video landed with a thud, the Green leader has returned with a sequel,...
🚨 Labour MP calls for UK ‘military action’ against IsraelTahir Ali, who represents Birmingham Hall Green and Moseley, used a parliamentary...
Reform’s leader in Wales has stood down after being arrested over the weekend on suspicion of assault and controlling or coercive behaviour. Dan...
Who is tougher on immigration: Boris Johnson or Rory Stewart? It seems to be the former Tory MP turned podcaster (that’s Stewart, not Johnson –...
After securing the Green party nomination to stand in the Holborn and St Pancras by-election, Zac Polanski’s campaign is already in full swing....
The moment MPs voted against the assisted dying bill, with 286 votes against and 270 in favourFollow live reaction: https://t.co/y3s7rZGAOs...
Very powerful speech from @AshleyDalton_MP, who has stage 4 cancer and opposes the assisted dying bill."I have been terrorised with tales of...
Tit-whisperer Zack Polanski has officially secured the Green nomination for the Holborn and St Pancras by-election. Despite an internal row over...
Nigel Farage faces yet another headache after the Met confirmed today that it will launch a criminal investigation into allegations that Reform...
Andy Burnham said the quiet part out loud today, suggesting that he values benefits more than national security. In an absolute gift to the Tories and...
“I don’t agree with the Chief Rabbi.” Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband responds to Ephraim Mirvis’ comments that it’s "a dark day for...
Today in Walthamstow we held the 46th Milad Al Nabi march – it’s a noisy annual celebration for our local Muslim community of the prophet...
Lord Khan of Tooting today stepped up his mission to profane the capital, announcing that St Paul’s Cathedral will host a series of...
Kemi Badenoch’s reshuffle promised a revitalised economic team. Now Mr S can reveal how it is being staffed. A missive from the new shadow...
Nigel Farage has just come off stage here at Reform conference, after a speech marred by disruptions. It started almost an hour late for security...
Twenty minutes before Nigel Farage was saying he hadn’t done anything wrong, he must have felt, really, like there was little wrong he could ever...
The Green party’s resident tit-whisperer, Zack Polanski – formerly Dave Paulden – looks set to take on Labour in the race to succeed Sir Keir...
The imminent threat from Russia is a NATO fiction to justify their complete capitulation to Trump's demands for more military spending.The...
One of the biggest criticisms levelled at Andy Burnham is that he simply cannot say no. Every campaign, every demand and every heartstring-tugging...
The great and principled man of the people, Sir Keir Starmer, is to stand down as an MP. Despite repeatedly insisting that he would remain on the back...
In Toryworld, big changes are afoot. Kemi Badenoch has started with the personnel: out goes Priti Patel, replaced as foreign secretary by Tom...
It’s been a tough old time for private schools. Amid endless self-aggrandising, Keir Starmer’s ministers took great pleasure in whacking VAT on...
They’re always tough, the first weeks back at work after a holiday, but the Prime Minister really has been off the ball since returning to the job...
They’re always tough, the first weeks back at work after a holiday, but the Prime Minister really has been off the ball since returning to the job...
It is no secret that Labour MPs struggle to understand how wealth is created – hardly surprising when just one member of the Cabinet has a business...
“What does this say about the people entering our country?” @NickFerrariLBC asks Education Secretary Lucy Powell why it’s necessary to give...