Scottish Independence: Support stalls in polls as Nicola Sturgeon’s woes continue

Fresh blow for embattled Nicola Sturgeon as ANOTHER poll shows her Scots independence drive is stalling with 51% wanting to stay in the UK A series of polls have found majority of Scots support staying in United Kingdom Major setback for Nicola Sturgeon as she pushes for a re-run of 2014 referendum Large proportion do … Read more

Heathrow passenger numbers slump while Rolls-Royce announces £4billion loss

Heathrow passenger numbers slump to lowest level since 1966 while Rolls-Royce announces £4billion loss after aviation industry suffers ‘severe’ Covid hit Heathrow’s passenger numbers have fallen to the lowest level since the 1960s Engine-maker Rolls-Royce has plummeted to a mammoth £4 billion annual loss Just 461,000 people travelled through Heathrow Airport in February Recent queue … Read more

England’s Covid infection rate is now LOWER than Scotland’s for the first time since April

England now has a lower coronavirus infection rate than Scotland for the first time since April and cases have dropped by a third in a week, official figures revealed today, sparking fresh calls for Boris Johnson to ease restrictions earlier. Department of Health statistics showed England’s weekly rate was 61 cases per 100,000 people by … Read more

Keir Starmer battles to get Labour leadership back on track with assault on 1% NHS pay plan

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer  will turn all his firepower on the Government over its controversial 1 per cent pay rise offer for nurses today as he bids to get his leadership back on track.   The Labour leader is to launch the party’s campaign for May’s local and mayoral elections by demanding key workers are … Read more

ANOTHER poll shows Nicola Sturgeon’s independence drive is stalling

Fresh blow for embattled Nicola Sturgeon as ANOTHER poll shows her Scots independence drive is stalling with 51% wanting to stay in the UK  A series of polls have found majority of Scots support staying in United Kingdom Major setback for Nicola Sturgeon as she pushes for a re-run of 2014 referendum Large proportion do … Read more

State school in east London gets more Oxbridge offers than ETON

State school in east London gets more Oxbridge offers than ETON… as deputy head of the top private school writes to parents to defend its performance Brampton Manor, in Newham, announced 55 pupils received Oxbridge offers By comparison, Eton College, which Boris Johnson attended, secured 48 offers Eton sent a letter to parents explaining its … Read more

Boris Johnson hints on 1% NHS pay rise U-turn and says nurses could be treated ‘exceptionally’

Boris Johnson hints at U-turn on 1% NHS pay rise saying nurses could be treated ‘exceptionally’ as Keir Starmer berates him at PMQs swiping that Dominic Cummings got 40% Boris Johnson berated by Keir Starmer over NHS pay at a bruising PMQs session Labour leader complained at ‘real terms cut’ after the coronavirus pandemic Mr … Read more

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: Boris Johnson demands Iran’s ‘immediate release’ of charity worker

Boris Johnson demands ‘immediate release’ of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe during phone call with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani as PM says her ‘continued confinement remains completely unacceptable’ PM Boris Johnson spoke to Iranian President Hassan Rouhani this afternoon  Mr Johnson demanded the ‘immediate release’ of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe The PM said her ‘continued confinement remains completely unacceptable’  By … Read more

Boris Johnson slammed over his ‘fantasy’ Northern Ireland bridge plan

Boris Johnson‘s plan to build a bridge or a tunnel connecting Northern Ireland and Scotland has been slammed by critics as a ‘fantasy’.  The Prime Minister has launched an official review to look at how to improve Union transport connectivity, with a fixed Irish Sea link the headline proposal.  The PM has allocated £20million to … Read more