Labour leadership contest: Who will take over from Jeremy Corbyn? December 16, 2019 Labour is still licking its wounds from the drubbing it got in last week’s election – and leader Jeremy Corbyn has said he will stay in place to enable a “period of reflection”. Indeed, as has now become fairly standard within the Labour party, the process, and who will be selecting the shortlist, has been [...]
No, Jeremy Corbyn: Labour leader ‘weak, unpatriotic and too left-wing’, damning election report finds February 10, 2020 Labour’s “impossible” policies, a leader who was “stuck in the past” and a sense that the party is for “middle-class radicals” are among the reasons for the party’s electoral annihilation, according to a damning new report. Jeremy Corbyn was the single biggest factor in causing voters to defect, resulting in Boris Johnson gaining an 80-seat [...]
Jeremy Corbyn says his ‘door is open’ to Jewish community November 26, 2019 Jeremy Corbyn has said his “door would be open” to the Jewish community if elected in an apparent response to comments from the UK’s chief rabbi that antisemitism has “taken root” in the Labour Party. In a stunning statement, Ephraim Mirvis yesterday said Corbyn was not fit to be Prime Minister and accused the Labour [...]
Emily Thornberry grilled over Jeremy Corbyn’s nuclear stance November 11, 2019 Labour’s foreign secretary struggled to answer questions about Jeremy Corbyn’s preparedness to use military action or nuclear weapons today in the face of questions about the opposition leader’s history of pacifism. Emily Thornberry faced a barrage of questions in several interviews this morning about whether Corbyn would use nuclear weapons or indeed any military force [...]
Letters: The cost (and profit) of going green October 21, 2021 Re: Green Revolution, costs apply, October 19] The front page “ Green Revolution * Costs apply “ missed out one main point . Opportunities apply too. The City and business globally have been working on the step change required for decades. Many of these innovations are being led by UK plc. This will create and [...]
Starmer offers ‘contract with British people’ as he sets stall for future Labour government January 4, 2022 Sir Keir Starmer has said a Labour government would offer a new “contract with the British people” based around “security, prosperity and respect” in a key set piece speech today. Starmer sought to use the speech to make political gain out of recent scandals about Tory MPs taking lucrative second jobs and Boris Johnson’s staff [...]
Are house prices going to fall? Is this the end of buy-to-let? What’s going on in the housing market? April 7, 2024 The UK property market confounded expectations last year, only falling by two per cent. With rate cults looking likely, will it rally again?
Jeremy Corbyn labels Labour nationalisation plans as ‘very modest’ November 17, 2019 Jeremy Corbyn has claimed Labour’s spending and nationalisation plans are “very, very modest” in an attempt to reassure people the party is “not trying to grab hold of the economy”. Shadow chancellor John McDonnell announced on Thursday the party would part nationalise BT for £20bn and provide free full-fibre broadband across the country. Read more: [...]
Tory leadership race descends into all out war in televised debate July 17, 2022 The Conservative leadership race descended further into vicious mudslinging today as the remaining five candidates tore shreds off each other for 60 minutes in a televised debate. Frontrunners Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss had a number of bruising encounters, with the ex-chancellor accusing the foreign secretary of peddling “something for nothing economics” that are closer [...]
Best of 2023: The world according to Ralph Nader December 28, 2023 The 1960s social justice warrior Ralph Nader on his new book, why the Democrats are failing and how to run a company properly