Among the other Workers Party candidates, who will be expected to cover the £500 deposit for standing in a general election out of their own pocket, are former UKIP MEP Amjad Bashir, who defected to the Conservatives in 2015 and two former British ambassadors, Peter Ford and Craig Murray. Source link
Siân Berry’s exit from the London Assembly means mayoral candidate Zoë Garbett will take her place. Source link
A scheme aimed at tackling overcrowding in jails in England and Wales is being extended. Source link
The defence secretary has blamed a “malign actor” for the MoD payroll leak linked to a private contractor. But despite education China could be involved, Grant Shapps does not name a country, but old MPs he could not rule statement involvement. He also told the Commons it was important it was “put right and that...
Mothin Ali says he is “sorry for any upset” after calling his victory a “win for the people of Gaza”. Source link
Rishi Sunak said he was limited in what he could say over who was to blame for a “malign act” on the Ministry of Defence website. He said China has “fundamentally different values to ours” but would not name it is as the suspect over a cyber attack. But he named Russia, Iran, North Korea...
The shadow chancellor said abolishing National Insurance was a “tax bombshell aimed at British pensioners”. Rachel Reeves recalled a 40-year old warning from the late former Conservative chancellor Nigel Lawson, later Lord Lawson, not to abolish the tax as the policy had “little practical merit” and would “create many losers”. Speaking in a speech in...
Labour’s Andy Burnham says the scheme is making the housing crisis “worse every year”. Source link
Challenged over his suggestion there could be a hung Parliament, Mr Sunak said: “The independent analysis shows that whilst of course this was a disappointing weekend for us, that the result of the next general election isn’t a foregone conclusion and indeed actually is closer than, or the situation is closer than, many people are...
Many Conservative MPs (and indeed Labour ones too) believe that a poster their party ran in the 2015 election, when the polls were pointing to a hung parliament, showing the then Labour leader, Ed Miliband, in the pocket of the former SNP leader, Alex Salmond, played a key role in delivering the Conservatives a surprise...