Labour’s winter fuel payment cuts set to hit 84% of disabled pensioners, poll shows.l
Exclusive: New poll reveals 84% of pensioners with a long-term health condition or disability are set to lose the lifeline. Labour‘s winter fuel payment cuts will see 84% of pensioners with a long-term health condition or disability lose out, new…
Outrage as Keir Starmer removes Shakespeare portrait from No 10.l
PM accused of ‘consigning Bard to the dustbin’ by changing the artwork in Downing Street A William Shakespeare portrait has been removed from No 10 (Image: PA) The course of true power never did run smooth – and now Sir Keir Starmer is…
Wes Streeting’s two-word response to fining patients missing NHS appointments.l
NHS figures show around eight million hospital appointments are missed annually at a cost of more than £1billion. Wes Streeting has said he is “open-minded” to fining people who miss NHS appointments. Figures from the NHS show around eight million hospital appointments are…
Serial returners send back £6.6bn of online purchases a year in UK, report finds! B
Industry bodies say over-ordering is eroding profitability as big sellers clamp down on practice Younger shoppers are more likely to over-order with the intention of returning a high proportion of the items. Photograph: Tang Ming Tung/Getty Shoppers with a habit of…
Starmer urged to open reparations talks at Commonwealth summit! B
Five Labour MPs call on PM and foreign secretary to address issue of reparatory justice for slavery and colonialism Bell Ribeiro-Addy, Labour MP for Clapham and Bristol Hill: ‘The UK has both a moral and legal duty to address the…
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Five Labour MPs call on PM and foreign secretary to address issue of reparatory justice for slavery and colonialism Bell Ribeiro-Addy, Labour MP for Clapham and Bristol Hill: ‘The UK has both a moral and legal duty to address the…
Historic UK seaside town in financial crisis after Labour-run council splurges £6.9m.H
One of Britain’s most historic seaside resorts is on the financial “edge” after Labour-run Blackpool Council’s cash reserves plunged from £7 million … to just £76,000. Labour claims victory in 2024 Blackpool South by-election The Lancashire town drew in visitors…
Rachel Reeves warned inheritance tax plans will backfire! B
Move will increase bureaucracy for bereaved families and ‘unlikely to raise additional revenues’, experts say Senior Labour figures urged Rachel Reeves to replace inheritance tax with lifetime wealth taxes Credit: ANTHONY DEVLIN/POOL/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock Rachel Reeves has been warned that her planned inheritance tax…
Labour risks breaking manifesto pledge by Budget cut to farming fund! B
Senior Tories urge Chancellor not to cut £100m from Elms which encourages greener land management The Government risks breaching its manifesto promises if it cuts a flagship farming fund at the Budget, critics have claimed. The Chancellor has been warned that…
Gang made £500k from illegal tip that filled village with ‘toxic fumes’! B
Clean-up will cost £1.2m after members of illegal waste ring are jailed for a total of 11 years Lorry-loads of waste were ‘regularly’ taken to site at Long Bennington, Lincs, where it was burnt and buried Credit: Environment Agency/SWNS A gang…