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Theresa May faces questions from MPs – as three members of her own party resign. Anna Soubry, Sarah Wollaston and Heidi Allen have written a joint letter to confirm their departure. The move comes after eight Labour MPs resigned from their party over its handling of Brexit and anti-Semitism, to form a new group.
For the first time since his Presidency began two years ago, Donald Trump faces his first real check on power. For whilst he held and increased his majority in the Senate, he lost the House of Representatives.
The full Channel 4 News investigation into the man who bankrolled Brexit – and his African diamond mine empire.
For the first time, we can see what kind of messages Vote Leave and others were targeting at key voters in a referendum campaign dominated by false statements and half-truths.
In part two of our investigation into Arron Banks’ mining interests in Southern Africa, Channel 4 News details the transfer of thousands of pounds to a Lesotho cabinet minister and the subsequent issuing of a mining licence.
The world’s two disrupters-in-chief started the day trying to out-disrupt each other – President Putin’s opening gambit, arriving an hour late, leaving President Trump twiddling his famously small thumbs. But at their joint press conference it was all talk of co-operation and understanding, President Trump criticising not Russian interference in the US elections, but the…
Jeremy Corbyn is calling for a War Powers Act to require the government to get parliamentary approval before military interventions. But would it actually achieve the accountability Labour want?
Gary Gibbon
Theresa May is pushing back against the relatively new convention that governments should always ask Parliament before military action. Jeremy Corbyn wants to go further and make that convention a law.
America’s Federal Communications Commission recently revealed plans to overturn net neutrality rules that were brought in under Obama. But there have been protests from many of the biggest web firms, and outcry from thousands of consumers.
As the FBI investigates claims that Russian meddling helped Donald Trump become president, FactCheck looks at America’s own track record of interfering with democratic elections.
It’s ten years since the financial crisis. How many people have been prosecuted for their part?
The pub chain has launched a “manifesto” for Brexit on half a million beer mats. FactCheck takes a look.
We’ve FactChecked this to death – suffice to say that Britain does not in fact spend anything like £350m a week on EU membership fees.
The best paid FTSE 100 executive received more than 1,700 times the average UK wage last year, an analysis by FactCheck shows. Sir Martin Sorrell, who runs the advertising and marketing giant WPP, earned more than £48m, including perks and pension. Overall, the highest earning executives in each of the FTSE 100 firms were paid an average of…
Helia Ebrahimi
The BNP Paribas announcement turned out to be the starting gun to the global financial crisis.