Blow For Keir Starmer As Labour Whip Vicky Foxcroft Quits Over Welfare Cuts
Vicky Foxcroft has quit as a government whip. A Labour MP has quit as a government whip over controversial plans to slash the welfare budget by £5 billion. In a major blow for Keir Starmer, Vicky Foxcroft said she could not vote for the policy and had no option but to resign. In a letter […]
Keir Starmer Facing Major Labour Rebellion Over ‘Cruel’ Welfare Cuts
An activist holds a banner against disability benefit cuts’ during a protest on June 7 in London. Keir Starmer is battling to avoid the biggest Labour rebellion since he became prime minister after the government published details of its plan to slash £5 billion from the benefit bill. Work and pensions secretary Liz Kendall insisted […]
Abortion Decriminalised In England And Wales Following Historic Commons Vote
Abortion has been decriminalised in England and Wales following a historic Commons vote. MPs voted by 379 to 137 to amend the government’s Crime and Policing Bill so that it will no longer be a criminal offence for a woman to end her pregnancy at any time. The amendment was tabled by Tonia Antoniazzi, the […]
Exclusive: Pro-Abortion Campaigners Fear Medical Staff Could Be Prosecuted Under Law Changes
Abortion rights campaigners march in London. MPs are set to vote on changing the country’s abortion law on Tuesday but campaigners are split over just what alterations are needed. Two Labour backbenchers have proposed altering the government’s Crime and Policing Bill with rival amendments to the draft legislation. Both aim to decriminalise abortion, but the […]
Labour Minister Refuses To Say That Israel Is An Ally Of The UK
Lewis Goodall and Darren Jones. A government minister has refuses to describe Israel as an “ally” of the UK. Darren Jones said “these things are never clear cut one way or the other”. The chief secretary to the Treasury’s comments came as the Foreign Office warned Britons not to travel to Israel because of its […]
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Can Trump Prevent A Massive Middle East War?
With an ongoing attack on high-profile targets in Iran that began on Thursday, Israel has presented President Donald Trump with his most significant foreign policy crisis yet. Trump now has to decide how — and whether — to prevent an all-out war across the Middle East that could spiral, endangering millions of people, drawing in […]
Air India Plane Crash: What We Know So Far As One Survivor Reported
APTOPIX India Plane Crash AHMEDABAD, India (AP) — An Air India passenger plane bound for London crashed into a medical college in Ahmedabad after takeoff Thursday, killing at least 240 people in one of India’s worst airline disasters in decades, officials said. Vidhi Chaudhary, a top state police officer in the northwestern city of Ahmedabad, […]
Opinion: Karen Millen Called A Breastfeeding Mum ‘Selfish’ – Here’s Why She’s Wrong
I’m breastfeeding my 1.5-year-old so naturally we’re probably both addicted to it and she’s going to be emotionally ruined. That’s according to Karen Millen’s logic, anyway. In a bizarre segment on Jeremy, Storm & Vanessa On 5 this week, in which for whatever reason they thought it was OK to pass judgement on a mum’s choice […]
UK Gardeners Urged To Put Garlic In Plant Water ‘Til October
Garlic bulb in garden Though slugs are rarely welcome in a gardener’s backyard, the Royal Horticultural Society have not classified them as “pests” for years now. That’s partly because less than a quarter of the species in the UK actually eat your plants, while all of the maligned molluscs provide a food source for the […]