New general election ‘one of two outcomes’ as DUP votes with Labour on budget bill
The DUP did more than just abstain in one of the votes this evening on the Tories’ budget, as they had threatened – they voted with the Labour Party in a […]
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Labour could call confidence vote as DUP abstain – on Budget votes
The DUP has said it is abstaining on every finance bill vote tonight in order to fire a warning shot across the Tories’ bows that they are close to abandoning […]
McVey didn’t misrepresent only Mind on Monday. She went full Trump with her charity quotes
On Monday, Esther McVey reeled off a list of charities and their comments, which she treated as praise for the DWP’s plans for Universal Credit (UC): Her comments were a […]
Four Labour MPs who didn’t support Labour’s tax rise for the richest 5% last week
In the votes on Philip Hammond’s budget last week, the Establishment media chose to focus on twenty ‘moderate’ MPs whose decision to vote against a planned rise in tax thresholds […]
Excl: Hammond ‘misspoke’ with 650,000 new homes #Budget2018 promise (video)
Chancellor Philip Hammond made a point of ‘hamming it up’ for the Tory gallery during his budget speech this afternoon, pausing frequently to allow clearly pre-planned cheers and cries of […]
Labour’s 10 Universal Credit demands ahead of Hammond’s #Budget2018
A statement by the Labour Party has outlined ten ’emergency demands’ the party is making of the Tories on Universal Credit (UC) ahead of Chancellor Philip Hammond’s budget speech this afternoon. […]
New videos cut ground from under Hammond’s #Budget18 speech before he opens his mouth
Comment A new video by EL4C – made by the same film-maker behind the recent Labour party political broadcast that rattled the Establishment so much with its powerful message that the […]
MPs to attend ‘Ragged Trousered Philanthropists’ to highlight “systemic flaws” in economy
Liverpool Labour MP Dan Carden is set to host a performance of Robert Tressell’s classic of working-class literature The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists in Parliament. The performance will be timed with […]