Author: Miles Donavan

“Just on Monday this week the Turkish government signed an £8bn deal for Typhoons, earlier this year the Norway government a £10bn for frigates, that’s because the budget we passed, fixing the mess they left.” Prime Minister Keir Starmer has slammed Kemi Badenoch at PMQs earlier today, reminding the Tory leader about how her party crashed the economy after she tried to claim that the government had failed to bring about economic growth. Badenoch tried to attack the Labour government over the state of the economy, claiming that inflation had doubled under the government and that the Tories had left…

Ed Davey called for an investigation into Russian meddling in UK politics after ex-Reform politician Nathan Gill was convicted for taking pro-Russia bribery Lib Dem leader Ed Davey called on the government to conduct an investigation into Russian interference in UK politics at PMQs today. Davey called for an inquiry after raising the case of Nathan Gill, ex-Reform leader in Wales, who was recently convicted of accepting bribes to make pro-Russia statements in the European Parliament.  The Lib Dem leader said that across Europe, in countries such as Poland, Germany and France, there has been evidence of “dangerous Russian interference”…

The three major companies behind the multi-billion pound asylum accommodation system have already made £383 million in profits through taxpayer-funded contracts The companies which were awarded Home Office contracts under the Tories in 2019 to deliver asylum accommodation for ten years are on track for another record-breaking year of profits. The three major companies behind the multi-billion pound asylum accommodation system have already made £383 million in profits through taxpayer-funded contracts, showing how the Tory decision to outsource to private companies has proved costly to taxpayers. The Times reports that ‘nearly half of the profits have been made by Clearsprings…

The founders of Your Party have fired off another legal threat Your Party UK Limited, steered by Jeremy Corbyn, Zarah Sultana and other Independent Alliance MPs, is preparing to launch legal action against a group of founders. In September, Zarah Sultana unilaterally launched Your Party’s membership portal, allowing supporters to sign up as members. Membership fees were paid into an account linked to MoU Operations. Three of the left-wing party’s founders, former North of Tyne mayor Jamie Driscoll, Beth Winter former Labour MP for Cynon Valley and Andrew Feinstein, an anti-apartheid activist run MoU. It is understood that over £800,000…

Danny Kruger claimed he was concerned that the UK could be led by an ‘appalling Hamas-supporting, LGBT-supporting nationalist party’ Nigel Farage is facing backlash for the second time this week, after one of his new MPs, former Tory Danny Kruger, railed against left-wing parties for supporting LGBT rights. Speaking at a membership drive at the weekend, Kruger said that Reform is up against a “kaleidoscope of left-wing parties”, including the Lib Dems, Labour, The Green Party, the SNP, Plaid Cymru and Your Party. The East Wiltshire MP said: “What I worry about is they’re going to get together after the…

‘You will lift so many kids out of poverty, in London, Liverpool, in Manchester.’ The Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham has pleaded with the government once more to scrap the two-child benefit cap, a policy which charities and anti-poverty campaigners say is pushing thousands of children into poverty. His call comes ahead of the budget next month, with reports indicating that the government is considering lifting the cap with officials exploring options of a tapered system instead. However, child poverty campaigners have called for the policy to be lifted in full. The two-child benefit cap was introduced by George…

‘I don’t want to be thrown out of Parliament again, so I will withdraw the fact that I am referring to the Member of Parliament as a racist because of her racist comments.’ Labour MP Dawn Butler was almost thrown out of the Commons for calling Reform MP Sarah Pochin a racist.  Speaking in parliament yesterday, Butler raised a point of order in which she said she was “completely offended” by comments from Pochin over the weekend. Pochin had made racist and hateful remarks during a TalkTV phone-in on Saturday, in which she said that ‘it drives me mad when…

The Act will strengthen renters’ rights, banning no-fault evictions and limiting rent increases Just over a year after it was first introduced to Parliament, one of the Labour government’s landmark pieces of legislation, the Renters’ Rights Bill, was given Royal Assent last night and is now law. This is huge news for the estimated 11 million private renters in the UK. These reforms have been a long time coming, after Theresa May first pledged to end no-fault evictions in 2019, but the Tories failed to pass the Renters Reform Bill while they were in power. The legislation has passed, but…

‘You’ve missold yourself now in effect in a post-hoc fashion. You’ve sold yourself as Danny Kruger Tory, you’re now Danny Kruger the Reform guy.’ Ex-Tory MP Danny Kruger was grilled this morning over his refusal to call a by-election after joining Reform. On Times Radio, presenter Stig Abell told Kruger that “the common sense thing to do” would be to call a by-election after he became a Reform MP last month. Abell said: “You were elected by your constituents as a Tory, you espoused Tory policies, you’re now a member of Reform. The common sense thing to do is to…

With the next state pension age increase imminent, the government must act urgently to support those who struggle to make it to 67 and beyond. This entails getting four things right. This is the last year that every person in the UK is guaranteed a state pension by age 66. The state pension age will start to increase to 67 from April 2026. And the timeline for further increases – scheduled for 2044 – is currently under review. It is right that the government keeps the state pension age under periodic review. The Pensions Act 2014 requires this at least…