Author: Miles Donavan

Tickets are priced between $500 to $30,000. Reform UK leader Nigel Farage is set to speak alongside far-right former Trump advisor Steve Bannon who has just been released from jail. The arch Brexiteer, who has been accused of not giving a toss about his constituents in Clacton since being elected in July, making repeated trips to the U.S. in order to support Donald Trump, will now be heading to New York in a few weeks, so that he can headline the New York Young Republican Club gala dinner on Wall Street on December 15th, the Mirror reports. Tickets are priced…

The findings come ahead of Labour’s first Budget in 14 years due to be delivered by Chancellor Rachel Reeves tomorrow An overwhelming majority of Britons are in favour of increasing taxes on businesses and the rich in order to improve public services, a poll has found. The poll, carried out for YouGov, asked voters how they thought money should be raised  for public services, with 82% of those asked supporting raising income taxes on the super-rich. Around 75% supported raising income tax on the rich, while 59% supported raising corporation tax. The findings come ahead of Labour’s first Budget in…

“These comments are deeply offensive and an obnoxious distortion of history.” Robert Jenrick continues to show just how far-right he is during the Tory leadership contest, this time claiming that ‘former British colonies owe us a debt of gratitude’, comments which have resulted in condemnation. Jenrick made the remarks in a column for the Daily Mail, in which he claimed that British colonies should be grateful for the legacy of empire. He wrote: “Many of our former colonies — amid the complex realities of empire — owe us a debt of gratitude for the inheritance we left them.” Jenrick made…

‘We must celebrate the wins when they come, but the case for bold ambition on areas such as fair taxation and the green transition must be made and remade throughout the course of this parliament.’  Pranesh Narayanan, research fellow at IPPR The first Labour budget in 14 years is shaping up to be a significant event. In the run-up we’ve heard a lot about ‘fiscal black holes’ and bleak inheritances. Many have been complaining about a narrative defined by gloom rather than hope. However, it is important to acknowledge the scale of the challenge facing Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves at…

‘We need to recognise that the cuts and austerity that got us into this mess will not get us out of it’ The first Labour budget in 15 years comes at a time of deep crisis for people all across the country. The Tories left behind a toxic legacy of plummeting living standards, stagnant wages and public services stretched beyond breaking point. No one can deny the scale of the mess left by consecutive Tory administrations. But we also need to recognise that the cuts and austerity that got us into this mess will not get us out of it.…

The caucus would seek to ‘advance issues that disproportionately affect women’ A group of MPs are planning to establish a women’s caucus in the UK parliament in order to ‘advance issues that disproportionately affect women’. 47 MPs have signed an Early Day Motion in the House of Commons supporting the initiative, which would mirror similar groups within the Scottish and Welsh Parliaments and in the Northern Ireland Assembly. The EDM says, “now is the time to establish a Women’s Caucus which focuses on issues affecting women across the UK and within Parliament”. The move to establish a women’s caucus follows…

Adrian Ramsay explains what the Green Party would put forward in this year’s budget Adrian Ramsay is co-leader of the Green Party of England and Wales and the MP for Waveney Valley Listen to Labour ministers answering questions about next week’s Budget and there’s one consistent soundbite – “the £40 billion black hole left by the Conservatives”. It leaves the impression that the only objective of the Budget is to fill that black hole. But the Budget needs to do so much more. We need to start to re-build our broken economy, rescue our public services from years of under-funding…

46% of Brits back a UBI New polling has found that a plurality of the British public support the introduction of a Universal Basic Income (UBI). A UBI is a scheme through which every person in the country would receive a payment from the state which is designed to help meet some or all of their basic needs and costs. Advocates for a UBI argue that it could play a major role in alleviating poverty and addressing income inequality in the country by ensuring that nobody falls below a minimum standard of living. The new poll found that 46 per…

The £2 bus fare cap is rumoured to be scrapped in the budget More than 60,000 people have signed a petition calling for the £2 cap on bus fares in England to be maintained. The petition comes as the chancellor Rachel Reeves is expected to announce the scrapping of the cap on Wednesday in her first budget since Labour entered government. Introduced under the Tories, the £2 bus cap is currently set to remain in place until 31 December 2024. However, there has been extensive reporting suggesting Reeves is likely to refuse to extend the scheme when she announces her…

‘Youth services are not a luxury; they are essential to the development of healthy, thriving communities.’ Youth support organisations have welcomed the government’s recent commitment to developing a new National Youth Strategy. Speaking in the Commons recently, culture secretary Lisa Nandy condemned the £1 billion in cuts to youth services implemented by consecutive Conservative governments over the last 14 years, calling the reduction a “national shame.” In response to a question by Melanie Onn, Labour MP for Great Grimsby and Cleethorpes about the impact of these cuts on antisocial behaviour, Nandy noted the devastating effects of the funding reductions. She…