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Union bosses have turned down an eye-watering £60k a year for a four-day week job, inconveniencing thousands of commuters. This is the latest development in a striking saga that has already cost the public tens of millions of pounds. With no end in sight, commuters are forced to deal with substandard rail services being held to ransom by union leaders. Chris Grayling, the Transport Minister, this week tried to calm…
by Jack Holliss Jeremy Corbyn and Theresa May pose quite possibly the most significant threat to the future of British higher education in a generation. The two main parties both seek the same form of hard Brexit – while one is held hostage by her party the other chooses to impose his hard-line beliefs upon it. Whatever their reasons however, they both want the same thing: an end to freedom…
David Davis, the Brexit Secretary, yesterday hinted that the UK will have to pay the final Brexit bill after all, after almost a year of government insistence that it could just ignore its obligations to the EU. In a statement snuck out yesterday, the government admitted that there would be obligations which would ‘survive the UK’s withdrawal’, widely seen as a reference to the “Brexit bill” – the money left…
The Government has been accused of burying a long-awaited report into the nature, scale and origin of the funding of Islamist extremist activity in the UK today, after it published only a two-page summary which conspicuously lacked mention of Saudi Arabia. The report was commissioned almost two years ago by then-Prime Minister David Cameron, and was handed to the government last year. The three terrorist attacks on Britain in recent…
Shocking figures just released have revealed that over two million British jobs rely on investment from the EU – half of all UK jobs that rely on foreign investment. Critics have expressed concern, saying that these jobs are now needlessly at risk during Brexit negotiations, and two million families may be forced to live in uncertainty. Over half a million jobs are reliant on the Netherlands, 319,000 on France and…
Jeremy Corbyn has come under new pressure relating to his time working at PressTV, after video evidence came to light of him giving a man who likened Israel and Jews to “a disease” a free pass before thanking him. Corbyn – who had challenged the caller earlier when he said that the United States was trying to “fix the problem” in the Middle East – was curiously silent during the…
Regular readers of The Torch will know our continuing commitment to exposing the many u-turns of the Prime Minister, but may not be aware of the magnitude of the problem. We can reveal today that in the past year, Theresa May – who promised “strong and stable leadership” during the general election – has u-turned a staggering TWENTY TIMES since becoming Tory leader one year ago. The embattled Prime Minister…
Dominic Cummings, the campaign manager for the Leave campaign in the EU referendum, has posted an extraordinary string of tweets today in which he trashes the Prime Minister’s Brexit plans as “shambolic” and full of “crap ideas”. In the incredible intervention, which came in the context of news that Theresa May planned to pull the UK out of Euratom, Cummings, who was also Michael Gove’s former special adviser at the…
Theresa May will use a speech later today to call for opposition parties to “contribute and not just criticise”, in an embarrassing climbdown for the Prime Minister, who just three months ago called an election in an attempt to silence dissenting voices. With the Conservatives having lost their Parliamentary majority and looking increasingly on the rocks, with May facing private calls to resign amidst speculation she won’t be in No.…
Sir Vince Cable, the man who looks set to become the leader of the Liberal Democrats this summer, has given an interview on the Andrew Marr Show this morning, in which he said out loud what millions of Brits have been thinking. “Brexit may not happen.” Enormous Problems Cable was being asked about the future of Brexit, and said that because “the problems are so enormous, the divisions in the…