Author: Miles Donavan

The Trades Union Congress has warned that withdrawing from the ECHR would also amount to an attack on workers rights Although the Conservative Party may be hoping that its draconian approach to human rights and push further to the right will prove popular with voters, polling suggests otherwise. While Tory leader Kemi Badenoch announced this week that her party would take the UK out of the European Convention on Human Rights if it wins the next election, more voters prefer the UK to remain a member of the ECHR than those who wish to leave it, a new poll has…

‘We do not appreciate complete fiction like this.’ Sarah Pochin MP is facing backlash after claiming that she helped a boxing club in Runcorn to secure funding. Following a visit to Runcorn Amateur Boxing Club (ABC), she posted a video taking credit for helping them get funding. In the video, she said: “My office has managed to help them get funding to keep them going for another 12 months because they do great work for young people in Runcorn.” The Reform MP for Runcorn and Helsby said she had worked closely with Dean from the boxing club to secure the…

Plotters are said to be rallying behind Robert Jenrick. Amid continuing rumours of an impending coup to topple Kemi Badenoch following dire poll ratings and fears that the Tory party is headed for wipeout, allies of the Tory leader have set a deadline for her to turn things around and say she will quit if there’s no progress by then. Two senior allies of Badenoch say she will resign if the polls fail to improve and the May election results next year are bad for the Tories, the Times reports. Badenoch has failed to make an impact after the Tories…

Reform’s calls for Sky Sports to sack Neville failed Football legend Gary Neville has slammed angry middle-aged white men for fuelling division in the UK. Following the Manchester Synagogue attack last Thursday, Neville posted a video calling the division being created in the UK “absolutely disgusting”. Neville said: “When I was driving to Salford City last night, going down Littleton Road, seeing probably 50 or 60 Union Jack flags. And on the way back I went down the parallel road, Bury New Road, which has got the Jewish community right at its heart, and they’re out on the streets, defiant,…

“It is completely dead. We are completely dead. But hey the white wine is chilled.” The Tory conference has been mocked after pictures on social media showed rows of empty seats for keynote speeches, with Kemi Badenoch forced to deny low attendance at some events being an issue. Among those affected was the Tory shadow chancellor Mel Stride, whose keynote speech outlined sweeping cuts to welfare spending. One social media user shared a picture of rows of empty seats at Stride’s speech, writing on X: “Not exactly a packed hall for Shadow Chancellor Mel Stride’s big speech.” Dr Ellie King…

“It’s changing, it’s changing rapidly. But that still exists. That is a problem. That’s one of the problems I faced.” Mothin Ali was elected as one of the two deputy leaders of the Green Party of England and Wales earlier this year. At the Greens’ autumn conference in Bournemouth this past weekend, Left Foot Forward spoke to him about the tone of the conference, the party’s electoral prospects and how it can shake a reputation for being a party of the white middle classes. “The atmosphere here is just phenomenal”, Ali said of the conference, adding: “It seems like we’ve…

From scrapping green energy measures to creating a version of Trump’s deportation force, the Tories have announced some bad policies Things are going from bad to worse for the Tories. Not only are they in third in voting intention polls, they’ve also only drawn between 2,800 and 3,500 party members (around 1000 less than they anticipated last year) to their annual conference in Manchester this year. To rooms full of empty seats, they’ve made some bad policy announcements. Here are some of the worst contenders. 1. Scrapping green energy measures Before their conference had even got underway, we learned that…

Rosindell’s comments will be a fresh blow to Badenoch… In another sign of how the Tories and Reform UK are two sides of the same coin and what will be another blow to party leader Kemi Badenoch, a Tory shadow minister has admitted that he would serve in a Cabinet alongside Nigel Farage. Speaking to GB News at the Tory party conference in Manchester, Andrew Rosindell heaped praise on the Reform leader, dubbing him a “good man” and patriot. He said: “Look, I’ve known him a long time. He used to be a member of the Conservative Party. He’s a…

‘Putting it bluntly, Robert is wrong’ Hardline Tory MP Robert Jenrick has been criticised over his comments claiming he “didn’t see another white face” during a 90-minute visit to a Birmingham neighbourhood. In March, Jenrick said in a leaked audio recording that Handsworth in Birmingham was “one of the worst integrated places I’ve ever been to”, suggesting that this was because he hadn’t seen “another white face” during his visit.  In the recording, he went on to say: “That’s not the kind of country I want to live in. I want to live in a country where people are properly…

More than 70,000 people complained to the regulator about the comment After over six months of investigation, Ofcom found that GB News breached the broadcasting code when a presenter used a homophobic slur. During an episode of Headliners on 22 January, presenter Josh Howie used a slur linking the LGBTQ+ community to paedophilia.  He made the comment while discussing a US bishop’s sermon urging Donald Trump to “have mercy” on marginalised communities. Howie said that when the bishop “talks about the ‘full inclusion of LGBTQ+ persons” that “includes paedos, if you’re doing the full inclusion there’.” More than 70,000 people…