UK will recognise Guaido unless Venezuela holds new elections – foreign secretary Hunt January 26, 2019 Britain has become the latest western nation to throw its weight behind Venezuelan opposition politician Juan Guaido as pressure increases on President Nicolas Maduro. The UK will recognise Guaido as president unless new elections are called within eight days, Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said. Read more: Corbyn hosts Venezuelan diplomat in parliament as anti-Maduro protests erupt [...]
Should we have a bank holiday for Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s wedding? November 29, 2017 Should we have a bank holiday for Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s wedding? YES – Alex Deane, Conservative commentator. Bank holidays help to generate spending in recreational and leisure sectors, while at the same time harming national productivity more generally. But let’s be realistic. We love a royal wedding and we are going to celebrate [...]
Jeremy Corbyn moots 20:1 pay ratio limit for government contractors January 10, 2017 Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has dramatically shifted his proposals for an earnings cap. Speaking in Peterborough today, Corbyn offered two new rules for contractors, alongside proposals for broader reforms. Just hours after setting out his desire for "a maximum earning limit", the Labour leader said he would rather tackle pay ratios in the hopes of raising [...]
John McDonnell is going to Davos with “a warning for the global elite” January 24, 2018 John McDonnell is “going to Davos with a warning for the global elite” – that they stand in the way of change at their own risk. Labour’s shadow chancellor, who is attending the annual summit alongside Prime Minister Theresa May and US President Donald Trump, as well as the world’s richest people, will tell them [...]
Elections over, the Tories must find their next London mayor | City A.M. May 9, 2018 Politics is a relentless business. Once one election is over, preparations begin immediately for the next race. So while I genuinely hope that campaigners from all parties managed to enjoy the bank holiday weekend, I know postmortems on the local election results will already be underway, and – crucially – their future electoral success will [...]
MPs’ recess shows how little dialogue goes on normally – and we’re all the poorer for it February 16, 2018 Parliament was on one of its many breaks this week, although some news still emerged from a sleepy Westminster. Boris Johnson popped up to provide some light relief and a smidgen of Brexit policy hints, while Jeremy Corbyn was the subject of two high profile stories – an expose of his historical Soviet connections and [...]
Jeremy Corbyn’s only hope of power may be in an SNP coalition, Labour group warns January 3, 2017 Labour's only hope of power may be to form a coalition with the likes of the Scottish National Party, a leading left-wing group has warned. A report from the Fabian Society this morning has claimed that the party is on track to drop below 200 seats in the House of Commons for the first time since [...]
Editor’s Notes: Time to wake up to your own online data dump March 23, 2018 Having spent the past decade pouring my every opinion and interest on toFacebook, I find myself outraged to discover that the data generated by my self-obsessed oversharing has been used to try and sell me things. Worse, political campaigns have been using my deep data footprint to try and target me with campaign messages. This [...]
Neither a vaper nor a vegan be: Truss blasts Labour economic plans and rallies behind free enterprise January 30, 2018 Treasury secretary Liz Truss will this morning attack Labour’s economic policies, lambasting shadow chancellor John McDonnell’s vision of “a control economy”. She heralded free enterprise for driving down prices and creating jobs while “breaking down monopolies, hierarchies and outdated practices” in a speech at think tank the Policy Exchange. Britons no longer need to be [...]
Everything the left thinks it knows about inequality is wrong April 3, 2018 Listen to the Dear Leader Jeremy Corbyn and his fellow travellers, and one would think that economic inequality in the UK is going through the roof. “We cannot go on creating worse levels of inequality,” Corbyn said last year. Left-wing commentators such as Polly Toynbee and Will Hutton have in the past claimed inequality is [...]