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We spoke to three people who were right in the midst of last night’s terrifying events Liam Connell, Alex Shellum and Richard Angell.
The think-tank, the Institute for Fiscal Studies, has said both the Conservatives and the Labour Party aren’t being honest about the economic consequences of their manifesto proposals. It didn’t look at the manifestos of the Lib Dems, Ukip and other parties. The IFS warned that the Tories’ pledges to boost NHS spending may well be…
Labour would raise public spending and taxes, while the Conservatives are offering more austerity.
Gary Gibbon
President Trump didn’t deliver the endorsement of Article 5 of the NATO founding treaty which some hoped he would. He gave the leaders a public dressing down for not paying their way in NATO and even suggested that continuing terrorism should be on their consciences if they don’t cough up.
The prospect of impeachment has reared its head twice before in living memory – during the Presidencies of Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton. But in neither case did the process end in their enforced removal from office. So what are the chances that Donald Trump’s term could end in impeachment?
Jeremy Corbyn has launched Labour’s manifesto with pledges to make the richest pay more tax. Mr Corbyn said it would fund billions of pounds in new spending on education, health and social care, scrap university tuition fees and renationalise the railways, Royal Mail, and public utilities. Some critics called it a return to the 70s,…
How can you increase borrowing but promise to lower the national debt at the same time?
Gary Gibbon
You do wonder if the team started with a number on one side and then worked back. The £48.6 billion tax and spend proposals equate to 40% of GDP. That puts this overall offer on the outer perimeters of British political experience but not beyond them. That 40% figure has generally not been breached apart…
Gary Gibbon
Am in Manchester following Jeremy Corbyn. He’s packed 1,000 supporters into a hall for his campaign launch. The backdrop is his battle bus, driven into the venue on a near empty tank due to health and safety rules.
Joining me here in the studio is John Nicolson from the SNP, Baroness Olly Grender of the Lib Dems, and Richard Burgon, the Labour shadow justice secretary. We’re also joined by the Conservative Housing Minister Gavin Barwell, but he’s refusing to debate anybody else so we’ll talk to him separately.
It’s been dubbed the most epic fail in concert history: rich young millennials forking out up to $12,000 to hang out with super models and music stars on a luxury island in the Bahamas – only to find none of it was there.
MPs are recommending an ‘escalating system of sanctions’ against social media giants like Facebook and Twitter who fail to tackle illegal content like hate speech and sexual images of children. The Home Affairs Select Committee said there was nowhere near enough being done to tackle abuse and extremism – claiming the biggest firms were “big…
An online poll by ITV’s This Morning show has been circulating on social media, showing a massive lead for Jeremy Corbyn. It puts the Labour leader on a staggering 68%, with Theresa May trailing behind at just 19%. It’s been retweeted hundreds of times, with Corbyn supporters saying it shows that Britain is ‘waking up’ and…
South Sudan is, of course, the world’s newest nation state, but it’s also quite a rich country. Oil-rich at the time of independence, it was exporting 360,000 barrels of crude every day. It has had billions in aid, not least from the Obama administration, but globally as well. And yet according to the UN, it’s…
The Conservative Party has been fined a record £70,000 and its former treasurer reported to the police following a report by the Electoral Commission into its election expenses.