Jeremy Corbyn's expenses for last year were £8.75. Tim Loughton meanwhile claimed £193,589.
http://www.worthingherald.co.uk/news/local/sussex-mps-expenses-revealed-1-6952899
Women have been appointed as Chief Whip, Chief Secretary to the Treasury and to the Defence, Health and Education portfolios. There are more women than any other shadow or actual cabinet I can think of and more than twice as many as in Cameron's cabinet. I would have thought that those were...
Buzzer, there were still talks going on about the shadow cabinet earlier today which I am fairly certain is why he did not want to answer the question. This is the latest list I've seen:
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/sep/14/jeremy-corbyn-labour-shadow-cabinet-in-full
As you will see...
Good point about manufacturing. The Tories for the last 30 years seem wedded to finance capital to the exclusion of any idea of productive industry. Corbyn may have a few surprises up his sleeve.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/the-poor-are-paying-a-bigger-proportion-of-tax-than-the-rich-and-the-gap-is-widening-10353954.html
The poorest families in the UK are losing more of their income in tax than any other income group, official statistics have revealed, putting pressure...
Spot on. In 1972 Lord Whitelaw, then Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, had a group of republican leaders, including Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness, flown to London for secret talks in Chelsea. There were repeated contacts with PIRA and Loyalist terrorists throughout The Troubles...
It may or may not have a bearing on anything but before people get carried away with the notion that voters only vote for right-wing Labour candidates it is worth noting that Under Blair the Labour vote decreased from 13,518,167 in 1997 to 10,724,953 in 2001 and 9,552, 436 in 2005. (Labour got...