Steve Barclay, Suella Braverman and Michelle Donelan lashed out at the “slow creep of wokeism” in public bodies. Mr Barclay ordered health officials to ditch an NHS training manual that told staff to declare their pronouns to patients. The Health…
Read MoreAdams County Democrats pick environmentalist to serve in state House
An Adams County Democratic vacancy committee has selected Manny Rutinel, a lawyer and environmentalist, to represent a western slice of the county in the state House of Representatives. Rutinel defeated Lucy Molina Monday night by a vote of 23 to…
Read More‘Absurd’ EU regulation on bendy bananas to finally be ditched
An “absurd” EU regulation on bendy bananas will be scrapped, the Environment Secretary has announced. In her keynote speech at the Conservative Party conference, Therese Coffey said it is not for the Government to decide “the shape of bananas you…
Read MoreBrexit destroying the EU as Macron and Scholz caught up in childish spat
Former spin doctor on Boris wanting to punch Macron A Brexiteer says the EU is at risk of collapsing amid Emmanuel Macron’s increasingly fractious relationship with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz. Ben Habib, a former Brexit Party MEP, was speaking after…
Read MoreHunt urged to slash business tax as threat of Truss-backed Tory rebellion grows
Jeremy Hunt has been urged to slash business tax amid a growing Tory-rebellion backed by former prime minister Liz Truss. The Chancellor will use his speech at the Conservative Party conference in Manchester on Monday (October 2) to promise the…
Read MoreHunt warned scrapping inheritance tax will force struggling Brits to plug gap
Scrapping inheritance tax will help the wealthiest but the burden on people with “more modest” estates will rise as the Government has to plug the gap in its finances somehow, an expert has claimed. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is rumoured…
Read MoreRebels threaten to block Hunt’s tax rises in new five-point election ultimatum
BBC Breakfast: Jeremy Hunt challenged over tax bill concerns Rishi Sunak and his Chancellor Jeremy Hunt have been warned that Tory MPs are willing to risk collapsing his Government if he tries to raise taxes again. The threat came from…
Read MoreJacob Rees-Mogg says he came up with tax plan too radical for even Liz Truss
Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg has revealed that during Liz Truss’s short-lived premiership, he came up with a tax-cutting plan so radical that even the Thatcher-loving Tory leader blocked it. Speaking at a packed conference fringe event in Manchester, Sir Jacob says…
Read MoreTheresa May sparks war of words with Rishi Sunak over Net Zero
Theresa May heated up Tory hostilities last night, launching a rare attack on Rishi Sunak over his plans to backtrack on key Net Zero targets. Speaking to fringe in Manchester’s conference, she took an obvious sideswipe at the Prime Minister,…
Read MoreZelensky criticised for banning political rivals attending UK party conferences
Moment when Zelensky and wife meets President Joe Biden President Zelensky is facing calls to end a ban on political rivals from attending the UK party conferences in their efforts to help with the war effort. The ban has been…
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