Home Office gets number of Europeans staying after Brexit ‘woefully’ wrong
The Home Office has been accused of “woefully” underestimating the number of Europeans who would take up the opportunity to remain in the UK after Brexit. A new analysis by the Centre for Migration Control (CMC) claims officials “got their numbers…
Question Time audience member explodes at Starmer and Reeves – ‘Picking our pockets’
A furious Question Time audience member erupted at the panel members during discussions about Sir Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves resigning. The BBC programme was discussing whether the Prime Minister and Chancellor should resign if they break tax pledges in the Autumn Budget. Amid this conversation,…
Shock poll exposes ‘frightening’ increase in sense of national division and decline in UK
A new study has put the spotlight on the “frightening” divisions and tensions running through the country as pride in Britain plummets. The share of Britons who say there are tensions between immigrants and people born in the UK has surged from 74% in…
State pensioners falling victim to new rule have to repay £600 to HMRC ‘in just 12 months’
BBC Radio 4 Money Box journalist Dan Whitworth has said the HMRC is preparing to claw back £600 from some state pensioners ‘in just one year’ through winter fuel payment recoveries. During an appearance on BBC Morning Live, he clarified that those earning above £35,000…
Labour civil war over prisons crisis as David Lammy branded ‘coward’ by own ministers
A brewing Labour civil war over David Lammy’s disastrous handling of the prisons crisis has this morning been dismissed as “tittle tattle”. Fury is rising within Government over the Justice Secretary’s bungled responses to the furore over fugitive migrant sex offender Brahim Kaddour-Cherif….
Rachel Reeves could ‘kill off’ pensions with warning of ‘catastrophe’ to come
Former Pensions Minister Baroness Ros Altmann has warned Rachel Reeves’s inheritance tax plans could “kill off” some pensions. She urged the government to rethink proposals to charge IHT on unused pension funds, slamming the idea as “unworkable”. The life peer, who warned the…
The Labour MP who could replace Rachel Reeves – and they could make things even worse
Keir Starmer doesn’t dare to sack Rachel Reeves – even though she could bring the whole government down. And that may be a good thing. Because hard as it is to believe, if the Chancellor goes then her replacement, perhaps Pensions Minister Torsten Bell, could…
Sadiq Khan splurged £2million of taxpayers’ cash on ‘divisive race and gender scheme’
Sadiq spent more than £2m on a race and gender scheme. (Image: Getty) SADIQ KHAN spent more than £2million of taxpayers’ money on a ‘Workforce Integration Network’ promoting race and gender initiatives, while warning City Hall employees that redundancies may be needed…
Fury as Keir Starmer lets convicts walk free while three prisons sit near half empty
Several prisons in the UK are nearly half empty despite the ongoing capacity crisis that saw Labour release nearly 40,000 prisoners early. Conservative shadow justice minister Kieran Mullan has said “it’s an insult to victims and puts the public at increased…
Pensioners warn Nigel Farage: Scrap the triple lock and Reform UK loses votes
Colin Delaney warned Farage to protect the Triple Lock. (Image: Jonathan Buckmaster) Pensioners have warned Nigel Farage that he risks losing their votes if he dares to touch the pension triple lock, urging Reform to protect the policy. It comes after Richard Tice, the…