LABOUR’s Anas Sarwar gestured at Humza Yousaf and shouted “bring it on” amid a furious Holyrood rammy over North Sea windfall tax plans. The two party leaders were involved in a fiery clash over each other’s energy strategy at First Minister’s Questions, with the SNP leader claiming Sir Keir Starmer’s plans would leave 100,000 jobs … Read more
WESTMINSTER “descended into chaos” as MPs engaged in furious rows over the Commons’ speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle’s decision to upend convention. In an unprecedented move which saw the Speaker face calls to resign allowed Sir Keir Starmer to avoid a major rebellion over an SNP motion calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. 3 SNP … Read more
Tory MPs have criticised Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s leadership, telling reporters that they hope he will step down from his post to avoid damaging the reputation of the Conservative Party. According to an anonymous former minister, several Conservative MPs have said that they were looking towards the local elections, set to be held in May … Read more
SCOTTISH Labour has backed calls for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza after party MSPs called for “unequivocal” support. The party’s conference held in Glasgow unanimously backed Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar’s calls for an immediate end to the Israel-Hamas conflict. 1 The Scottish Labour backed his motion for a ceasefire at the party conferenceCredit: PA It … Read more
CHANGE, change, change. Anybody got any change? Anas Sarwar was dishing it out like confetti yesterday, giving the word an ear-bending 61 mentions in his Scottish Labour conference speech. 3 Anas Sarwar MSP, Leader of the Scottish Labour Party addresses party annual conferenceCredit: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty ImAGES) 3 Anas Sarwar and Labour leader Sir Keir … Read more
The Conservatives will lose the vote of rural strongholds in an upcoming general election, a new poll has predicted. According to the survey, since 2019, Conservative support in rural constituencies has fallen by 25 points. It shows just 34 per cent of the electorate in the 100 most rural constituencies in England said they would … Read more
Last year, global temperatures increased to roughly 1.2 degrees Celsius – almost reaching the internationally agreed-upon global warming limit that currently stands at 1.5 degrees Celsius. Climate experts have warned that if the global temperature were to surpass 1.5 degrees Celsius, the world would see worsening weather extremes and irreversible effects of climate change. Since … Read more
Sir Keir Starmer is facing rising criticism from figures on the left of the Labour Party over plans to drop his £28 billion green investment pledge. The Labour leader is expected to confirm today that the scheme is being scaled back, blaming economic uncertainty caused by the Conservative government. The commitment is the latest casualty … Read more
Labour has dropped several of its most radical reforms, in an attempt to ‘bombproof’ its election manifesto from Tory attacks. The opposition party, currently holding a substantial polling advantage, backed out of its £28bn a year commitment to green investment last week. It then emerged that despite Keir Starmer’s previous promises to completely abolish the … Read more
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is in a soup after trade minister Dominic Johnson revealed that he gave VIP access to Sunak’s father-in-law’s Indian IT firm Infosys. The Indian company Infosys is owned by Rishi Sunak’s father-in-law Narayan Murty and his wife Akshata Murty has partial ownership in it. The allegations have surfaced as the … Read more
