The leader of Britain’s biggest union has turned his fire on moderate members of the Labour party and demanded they elect a new leader who will champion “organised labour”. Len McCluskey, general secretary of Unite, threatened to withdraw his union’s
Jim Murphy has announced he is to resign as leader of the Scottish Labour Party next month despite narrowly surviving a confidence vote earlier today. Speaking this afternoon, Murphy also took a swipe at the party’s union backers, accusing them
The stone slab that formed part of an ill-fated Labour gimmick in the last week of the election campaign has finally been discovered in a south London warehouse. The £30,000 slab featuring Labour’s six election pledges would have been put up
Five Libyan soldiers have been jailed after drunkenly rampaging through Cambridge city centre, raping a man and sexually assaulting four women.
The BBC will not be broadcasting Queen Elizabeth II’s 90th birthday celebrations next year after the rights were instead awarded to its commercial rival ITV. The move has surprised many as the BBC, which is Britain’s state broadcaster, is often
Islamic State fighters claim to have seized the Iraqi town of Ramadi after a wave of suicide bombers, including a ‘white Briton’, attacked the city. The terror group named the man as Aby Musa al-Britani and issued a picture of
Newly-appointed health minister Ben Gummer has come under fire from pro-abortion groups over his opposition to the practice. The Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Health said in a Guardian interview in 2008 that he is “personally and principally opposed
Militant atheists who try to silence Christian views are as bad as Tudor monarchs who executed thousands of religions dissenters, a top judge has said. Sir Michael Tugendhat, who has recently retired as a High Court judge, said that human
The BBC has been attacked after comparing Islamist hate preacher Anjem Choudary to Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Gandhi and Winston Churchill. Mark Easton, Home Editor, said that government plans to silence extremists were wrongheaded and that extreme views were needed to
Timo Soini, arch-Eurosceptic and leader of ‘The Finns’ party, has been appointed Finland’s finance minister and will now represent the country in EU financial talks. Soini counts UKIP’s Nigel Farage as one of his closest political allies. He is fiercely
There has been a surge in counter-terrorism arrests, with 338 people held across the UK in the past year, new figures reveal. The numbers mark a 33 per cent increase on the year ending April 2014, with 56 per cent
British twins who fled to Syria to join Islamic State are now believed to be on the run from the terror group and may be trying to return home. The Sun reports that Somali-born Zahra and Salma Halane, both 17,
Nigel Farage’s political career has been dramatically resurrected after UKIP’s National Executive Committee (NEC) voted to reject his resignation as party leader. Farage announced his resignation on Friday morning in the wake of his defeat in South Thanet. He had
The man now in charge of overseeing the future of the BBC has previously called the TV license fee “unsustainable” and compared it to the poll tax. John Whittingdale, the new Culture Secretary, is a long-time opponent of the state
Businessman and TV personality Alan Sugar has resigned from the Labour Party. The long-time Labour supporter, who fronts the UK’s version of The Apprentice, said he had lost faith in the party, accusing it of having “negative business policies and
The European Union could force Britain to take tens of thousands of new refugees pulled from the Mediterranean under plans being drawn up by commission president Jean-Claude Juncker. The demand will likely cause David Cameron’s first confrontation with the EU
Far-left politician George Galloway has said that “racists and zionists” will be celebrating after he lost his seat to Labour’s Naz Shah. The Respect Party leader lost the constituency of Bradford West by a margin of 11,420 votes in a
A Greenpeace ad claiming that fracking will not cut energy bills in the UK has been banned after the Advertising Standard Authority (ASA) ruled the group could not back up its claim. The group claimed: “Experts agree – it won’t
The gender-neutral salutation ‘Mx’ is to join the titles ‘Mr’, ‘Mrs’, ‘Miss’ and ‘Ms’ on official documents in the UK. Driving licences, passports, high street banks and even some government departments now accept the title, which is used by people
Five senior Labour Party figures have been criticised after speaking at an event where women were apparently banned from sitting with men. Tom Watson, Liam Byrne, Khalid Mahmood and Jack Dromey, all defending seats in the House of Commons, attended
Teachers at schools that were at the centre of last year’s ‘Trojan Horse’ scandal are receiving death threats, with dead animals being left outside school buildings. The Daily Mail reports that head teachers are blaming the renewed campaign of intimidation
Green Party leader Natalie Bennett has said her party would consider allowing polygamous marriages and civil partnerships in the UK. Speaking in a Q&A session with PinkNews readers, the Green leader responded to a question from Redfern Jon Barrett, who
The left-wing New Statesman magazine has unsurprisingly endorsed Labour for the general election, but has used its endorsement to launch a harsh attack on the party’s leader, Ed Miliband. While claiming that Labour’s programme for the election is “worthy of
Ed Miliband is “easily the most dangerous man who has ever come within touching distance of becoming our Prime Minister,” commentator Christopher Booker has said. Writing about Miliband’s record as Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change from 2008
UKIP has pledged legal protection for workers who refuse to condone sex-same marriage. In its “Christian manifesto” the party said it would introduce a conscience clause to give “reasonable accommodation” to those “expressing a religious conscience in the workplace on
