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Having lost his seat in the House of Commons in the general election earlier this month, George Galloway has announced he will stand for Mayor of London in 2016. He made the announcement on Twitter […]

Amid a heavy police presence, thousands of protestors are marching against austerity measures announced in the Queen’s Speech Thousands of anti-Tory protesters are marching through Westminster to fight the ‘oppressive, draconian’ Queen’s Speech. School, college […]

Downing Street has delayed plans to replace the Human Rights Act in favour of a British bill of rights. The government will instead publish proposals for such a bill. The project to replace the Act […]

High profile former politicians along with  current MPs and public figures gathered in West London on Tuesday at a memorial service for Leon Brittan. Lord Brittan, a former Home Secretary in Margaret Thatcher’s Cabinet, died […]

Northern Ireland has rejected  £600m Tory welfare cuts plan saying that it would ‘attack most vulnerable in society’ The Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) and Sinn Fein refused to approve the welfare reform bill and […]

Demonstrators will gather at Trafalgar Square and Parliament Square as part of a wave of planned anti Tory protests since the Conservative election win. The state opening of Parliament will take place on Wednesday 27th […]

An online petition, started a week ago, was inspired by French proposals to force supermarkets to send their unsold food to charity. Already signed by more than 100,000 people the petition urges the Government to […]

The BBC is conducting an internal investigation due to complaints by viewers that the broadcaster breached its own editorial guidelines by showing pro-Israel bias in an interview with the Israeli defence minister. A “provisional finding” has found the […]