France has warned David Cameron he cannot pick and choose which European rules apply in Britain. As the Prime Minister prepares for a Brussels summit tomorrow, French economy minister Emmanuel Macron said the UK would not be allowed to create an ‘a la carte’ European Union. Mr Cameron has spent the last few weeks meeting … More You can’t have an a la carte Europe, French minister tells Cameron
Tony Blair was a ‘great’ leader like Winston Churchill and Margaret Thatcher, former Cabinet minister Alan Milburn said today. In a major speech this morning, Mr Milburn said Labour had driven voters into the arms of the Conservatives by moving to the left. He said: ‘On issue after issue, Labour tried to defy the laws … More Labour should recognise Blair as a political ‘great’ like CHURCHILL
Boris Johnson has warned David Cameron and George Osborne not to cut benefits for low paid workers until their pay is increased. The London Mayor said it was ‘scandalous’ that private companies were paying their workers so poorly that the government needed to top up their wages with tax credits. Ministers hope that a move … More Boris warns Cameron and Osborne against ‘hacking back’ tax credits
Yvonne Davies, 46, was attacked with a hammer and knife in her home by Andrew Davies, 45. Mr Davies, a postman, had dropped off their young daughter at school on January 16 before returning home and carrying out the frenzied assault. The inquest heard that he had discovered evidence that suggested his wife had been … More NHS boss killed by cuckolded husband who had dossier on her ‘affairs’
The mother who went on the run with her young son will not be jailed thanks to the ‘mercy’ of the boy’s father, a judge said yesterday. Rebecca Minnock was a ‘scourge’ on the court system who now ‘owed her liberty’ to her ex-partner, the High Court Judge Stephen Wildblood said. The hunt for the … More Mother who went on the run with son, three, no longer faces jail
Since that horrific day in September 2000, I have become convinced that the British justice system fails constantly in its duty to the victims of crime and their families. For me, my heartbroken 87-year-old mother, my sister, our children, our grand- children, and for millions like us, nothing is more important than justice reform. Whether … More Gove is right, British justice HAS lost the plot says RICK CRESSMAN
‘Being a bit nosey, I asked them where they were travelling,’ cab radio operator Awas Ali told the Mail this week. ‘I told him it was a bit funny if you’re travelling in the morning to come back a few hours later. That’s what their mothers told them, told everyone – deceiving, as incredible as … More The mothers who took their children to hell
Mrs Clooney is A Celebrity By Marriage, having wed George Clooney, an actor I have yet to see on the stage. Mrs Clooney attracted rubbernecking from both the press gallery and those ardent egalitarians who represent us in the Legislature. Mrs Bruce, perhaps less accustomed to gawping, turned pink but Mrs Clooney lapped it up, … More Dave, Amal and a shorter skirt than my shirt tails at PM’s Questions!
An experienced gardener who died of multiple organ failure might have brushed past a toxic plant while working on a £4million estate days before his death, an inquest heard. He had worked at the sprawling estate – owned by retired venture capitalist Christopher Ogilvie Thompson and his wife, Katherine – for more than two years, … More Gardener who worked on estate died after ‘brushing past’ toxic plant
Labour’s definition of child poverty was attacked last night as ‘dodgy’ by influential party veteran Frank Field. But yesterday, Mr Field told his followers on Twitter that it was ‘wrong to enshrine dodgy poverty definition’ in law. David Cameron plans to ditch the controversial target within weeks and repeal the legally binding target to ‘eradicate’ … More Labour’s measure of child poverty was dodgy says ex-chief Frank Field
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