Left-wing activists have staged a protest targeting the King’s throne in the House of Lords. Campaigners climbed over barriers during a tour of Parliament before displaying a banner that said: ‘Replace the Lords.’ They are thought to be members of the newly established protest organisation Assemble. The group said some of its members were detainedContinue reading “Activists Target King’s Throne”
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Patients Who Call 999 For Heart Attacks Or Strokes Are Told To Get To A&E
Due to increased demand, people who contact 999 because they are experiencing a heart attack or stroke are being urged to travel to the hospital on their own. The West Midlands Ambulance Service, which said last week that it was under ‘severe pressure’, confirmed a change to the script used by its 999 call handlersContinue reading “Patients Who Call 999 For Heart Attacks Or Strokes Are Told To Get To A&E”
Pensioners Should Be Taxed More: Rachel Reeves, Tax Tsar
Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves’s new tax tsar previously called pensioners ‘codgers’ who had it ‘ridiculously good’. Sir Edward Troup, a former Tory Treasury special adviser, also said it was ‘ridiculous’ that pensioners received free TV licences and argued for them to be taxed more. His remarks became public earlier this month following his appointment byContinue reading “Pensioners Should Be Taxed More: Rachel Reeves, Tax Tsar”
An Innocent Man Was Wrongly Imprisoned For 17 Years
An innocent man who was wrongly jailed for 17 years for a crime he didn’t commit faces having to pay for prison ‘board and lodging’ as he blasted his ‘kidnappers’. Andrew Malkinson, now 57, on Wednesday finally won a 20-year battle to clear his name after he was in 2003 given a life sentence withContinue reading “An Innocent Man Was Wrongly Imprisoned For 17 Years”
House Of Lords Should Be Abolished, According To Most Voters
A survey discovered that most voters don’t trust the House of Lords and want it abolished in its present form. The poll found that barely a fifth of voters (21 per cent) believe the Lords acts in the public’s best interest, with 70 per cent believing it doesn’t. The study by Opinium, for the thinkContinue reading “House Of Lords Should Be Abolished, According To Most Voters “
Those Who Illegally Crossed The Channel In Small Boats Will Not Be Able To Appeal Their Deportation
Ministers are drawing up plans to stop Channel migrants from lodging legal challenges against deportation. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has already outlined how the Government plans to automatically bar migrants from claiming asylum as part of his promise to stop the boats, but additional steps are being formulated to strip back migrants’ ability to launchContinue reading “Those Who Illegally Crossed The Channel In Small Boats Will Not Be Able To Appeal Their Deportation”
Don’t Make Elderly People Choose Between Heating And Eating
MPs have been asked not to make the elderly choose between heating and eating by suspending the pensions triple lock in a Commons vote. The mechanism ensures the state pension increases by inflation earnings or 2.5 per cent, whichever is highest, but the Chancellor wants to delay the earnings link for a year because lastContinue reading “Don’t Make Elderly People Choose Between Heating And Eating”
Put The House Of Lords In The Bin!
The House of Lords should be abolished and put in the recycle bin, an MP has asserted, as tension grows on the upper chamber of the UK parliament. And just days after the Lords tossed a spanner in the works by thwarting the International Market Bill, calls are rising for the chamber to be jettisoned.Continue reading “Put The House Of Lords In The Bin!”
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