A record 1.6 million people are paying the top rate of tax, first intended to tax Britain’s big earners. A quarter of all teachers and a third of police officers are now paying the tax, according to the Daily Mail. Earners
Another British government minister has resigned – making him the second to quit the government in less than a week following Baroness Warsi’s public protest over the UK’s reaction to the Israel-Hamas war. Mark Simmonds, the Member of Parliament for
Britain’s newspapers are today filled with stories about Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, who resigned from David Cameron’s cabinet this week in a purported response to the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas. According to her, Cameron’s Conservative Party will lose next
LONDON (Reuters) – Prime Minister David Cameron’s Conservatives will lose next year’s election because they have neglected ethnic minority voters, Britain’s first Muslim cabinet minister, who last week resigned over the government’s Gaza policy, warned on Sunday. Sayeeda Warsi, a
LONDON, United Kingdom – Today’s anti-Israel protests in London reportedly attracted around 150,000 according to organisers, making the rally the largest since Israel’s war against the terrorist group Hamas began over a month ago. The Independent newspaper quotes London’s Metropolitan Police in
Britain’s Conservative Party has launched an unprecedented attack on a prominent conservative activist following allegations that an organisation named ‘Conservative Grassroots’ is attempting to “pass itself off” as officially linked to the political party. Breitbart London understands that a legal
“Eton is a four letter word.” I can’t remember which massively successful Old Etonian actor said that – there are so many: Eddie Redmayne, Harry Lloyd, Tom Hiddleston, Hugh Laurie, Damian Lewis – but whichever of the gazillions it was
Over at the Guardian, John Harris writes that, despite apparently having gone quiet, UKIP still poses a significant electoral threat to the Labour Party. Analysis by Lord Ashcroft shows that UKIP is now the most popular party in two key
At midnight last night, the Department of Health finished its final six-week consultation on whether to implement plain packaging for cigarettes. In response, Simon Clark of the Freedom Organisation for the Right to Enjoy Smoking Tobacco (FOREST) personally delivered 53,196
British Prime Minister David Cameron on Friday expressed his deep concern about the situation in Iraq and welcomed US President Barack Obama’s decision to authorise air strikes against extremists. But a spokesman for Cameron’s Downing Street office said Britain, which
Yesterday’s news that London Mayor Boris Johnson is to run for Parliament in 2015 was greeted with widespread delight amongst Conservatives, including Prime Minister David Cameron. His move would seem inexplicable without reading polls that show 20 percent of UKIP
London Mayor Boris Johnson has suggested a contentious solution to the UK’s immigration problems: copy the system operating in the United States of America. He made the suggestion in the face of major problems in Calais that have seen thousands
A little while ago, I took a giant step forward and joined UKIP: the ‘people’s army’. Was I right? There are now around forty thousand of us members. But my own journey was a little different. For a small part of
Bookmakers, pollsters and increasingly Conservative commentators are coming to the conclusion that the Tories are going to be out of office in nine months’ time. Yet despite almost everything pointing to a Tory defeat at next year’s general election, the
Ministers have pledged £250m to clear a waiting list of 3.1 million people on Britain’s socialised National Health Service (NHS), the highest level for six years, according to the Daily Mail. The money will be spent on 100,000 operations over
An anti-Israel group projected the flag of Palestine onto the side of the British Houses of Parliament in London early yesterday morning. The Daily Mail reports that the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) claimed to have carried out the stunt, in
No one really understands what Baroness Sayeeda Warsi – the “Senior Minister of State” at the British Foreign Office, and “Minister for Faith & Communities” – actually does. It is no secret that this unelected woman was co-opted into the UK
David Cameron wants to put Britain first. Not by giving the British people a long awaited referendum on their future in Europe, nor by cutting taxes and protecting civil liberties, but by promising for perhaps the sixth time over the
Newly-installed British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond criticized Israel on Wednesday for defending itself against Hamas terror, in terms that neatly encapsulated western elites’ hypocrisy towards the State of Israel. Speaking to BBC Radio 4’s Today, Hammond suggested–without evidence–that Israel might have
Britain is still set to hand out £5bn in tax credits to immigrants, despite David Cameron’s crackdown on benefit tourism. Tax credits top up the salary of low paid workers, they are effectively ‘in work’ benefits and can far outstrip
Plans announced by British Prime Minister David Cameron to cut benefits to jobless immigrants may be illegal. On Tuesday the European Commission said it will examine the plans closely to see they comply with European Union law, which is superior
Labour bosses have claimed that UKIP voters will propel their party to victory at next year’s General Election, according to the Daily Telegraph. The party says that if UKIP poll over 9 percent, they will cost the Conservatives enough seats
Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron has come under fire from UKIP’s North Eastern Member of the European Parliament Jonathan Arnott after repeatedly mixing up two very distinct areas of Britain in a radio interview. Speaking to BBC Tees, the Prime
In recent weeks, British Prime Minister David Cameron has proved to be master of losing friends and alienating people, but even by his standards, news that Charlie Brooks is to run for UKIP will be a blow. The horse racing
Conservatives are refusing to give back a £160k donation from a Russian oligarch with links to the Kremlin, according to the Sun. The money was paid by the wife of Vladimir Putin’s former deputy finance minister for a special tennis
