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Labour council with £2.8m hole in its finances ‘found £300,000 to silence blogger, 62, who had accused it of corruption’ Sandwell council in the West Midlands set aside £300,000 to pursue a blogger It spent taxpayer money trying to remove blog that made corruption allegations Labour council with £2.8million budget deficit refused to say how … Read more
Sir Keir gets the all clear! Labour leader Starmer faces no further action over car crash that left cyclist in hospital The Labour leader was involved in a crash with a Deliveroo cyclist on October 25 A witness to the crash in North London said he was performing a U-turn The cyclist was taken to … Read more
Pregnant women will again be allowed to take someone with them to hospital appointments and have them by their side during labour, the NHS has said. Under coronavirus regulations brought in earlier this year mothers-to-be were required to go to appointments alone and leave partners, friends or relatives outside. But health chiefs this week told … Read more
Labour MP Chris Bryant makes grovelling apology to Speaker Lindsay Hoyle for ‘unacceptable’ conduct after witnesses claimed he mimed ‘f*** off’ at the Commons chair during PMQs Chris Bryant apologised for ‘altercation’ with Commons Speaker Lindsay Hoyle Extraordinary spat broke out between the pair at PMQs in the chamber last week Mr Bryant said he … Read more
Labour MP Chris Bryant faces calls to quit Commons’ standards watchdog ‘for telling Speaker to “f*** off”‘ Tory backbencher Julie Marson says she saw Chris Bryant mouth the words Labour MP Mr Bryant is the chairman of the Commons’ standards committee ‘His behaviour last week leaves a very big question mark,’ Ms Marson said Mr … Read more
A senior Labour MP has sparked outrage after slamming the Queen’s honours system as ‘offensive’ because awards reference the British Empire – even though she has an OBE herself. Kate Green claimed there was no justification for ‘branding’ the gongs in colonial terms as ‘it’s offensive’ and could be ‘hurtful to people’ – and has called … Read more
Liverpool mayor Joe Anderson today announced he would step aside from politics after being arrested over bribery and witness intimidation offences as part of a probe into fraudulent building contracts. The city leader, 62, was sensationally arrested on Friday and suspended from the Labour Party, prompting immediate calls for him to resign as mayor. Derek … Read more
Senior Labour MP Chris Bryant has denied telling House of Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle to ‘f*** off’ in an extraordinary row over social distancing rules yesterday. Mr Bryant, who is the MP for Rhondda in Wales and Chair of the Commons Select Committee on Standards, is thought to have made the remark after being rebuked … Read more
Senior Labour MP Chris Bryant has denied telling House of Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle to ‘f*** off’ in an extraordinary row over social distancing rules yesterday. Mr Bryant, who is the MP for Rhondda in Wales and Chair of the Commons Select Committee on Standards, is thought to have made the remark after being rebuked … Read more
As with most members of the legal profession, Sir Keir Starmer would crawl through an open sewer to hear the sound of his own voice. No topic is too obscure, too arcane, on which he would happily hold court. Weighty matters of Human Rights jurisprudence, for example, or the finer points of the Equality Act. … Read more