Theresa May’s adviser has been tasked with investigating how the former home secretary, Amber Rudd, came to wrongly tell MPs that the government did not have targets for deporting people. Home Office bosses faced a grilling by MPs today and said the information given last month during the Windrush scandal was “regrettably confused”. Meanwhile, the…
“Be kind to your kids, they choose your nursing home”. It’s this sentiment that best sums up some new ideas being touted today aimed at bridging Britain’s yawning inter-generational wealth gap. As millennials stuggle with high housing costs, less job security and lower pay, older peopIe often hang on to substantial sums of accumulated wealth.…
Torsten Bell, director of the Resolution Foundation, and Conservative MP Neil O’Brien discuss inter-generational fairness. They were in charge of policy for Ed Miliband and George Osborne prior to the 2015 elections.
Gary Gibbon
Brexiteers say they told No. 10 this was a line in the sand some weeks ago and only held their fire until the end of the local elections. They are now in full insurgent mode telling the Prime Minister in public what she can do with her Partnership idea. I mentioned last week how the Foreign…
Gary Gibbon
The report doesn’t spell out the threat of what might go wrong if the parallel worlds and forgotten inter-dependence themes continue but you sense that they worry a mounting anger amongst younger voters and disenchantment with the political system is not a political desirable even if you can’t be sure how far and how quickly it travels.
Surgeons have dismissed as “ridiculous” the apparent suggestion by Donald Trump that guns could help deal with violent crime in London. The US President told a pro-gun rally in Texas that one hospital in the capital is like a “war-zone” because of this year’s spate of fatal stabbings. A trauma specialist from the Royal London…
The one party with not much to celebrate today is Ukip. The Tories appear to have been the main beneficiary of its collapse in many areas, and especially in the West Midlands. Dudley and Walsall, traditional Labour towns, now have as many Tory councillors as Labour ones.
Not a quake then for Labour or the Tories, but there were a few tremors. Theresa May claimed victory for her party, and so did Jeremy Corbyn for his. In fact, every party leader claimed victory, apart from the Ukip chairman, who compared his party to the “black death” – but in a good way.…
Gary Gibbon
On Theresa May’s election victory tour, Channel 4 News’ Anja Popp asked her: “Are you tempted to call a snap general election Prime Minister?” Theresa May laughed and said: “No I think we’ll just enjoy this …” before her ad-lib drifted off. One pro-Remain Conservative told me last night’s results were “a bit of a disaster for our…
The White House has been hosting National Prayer Day. But will Donald Trump require divine intervention over the latest revelations about alleged hush money paid to adult film star Stormy Daniels? The newest member of the president’s legal team, Rudy Giuliani, may have revealed rather more than Team Trump wanted.
We’re joined by Paul Ryan, a campaign finance lawyer at watchdog group Common Cause, and by conservative political commentator Scottie Nell Hughes, to discuss the latest allegations about Stormy Daniels and President Trump.
The former boss of Cambridge Analytica screeched off in his Audi when we tried to ask about the company being wound up in the wake of a joint investigation by Channel 4 News and The Observer. Authorities say the firm is still under investigation, despite closing down. The Information Commissioner, Elizabeth Denham, tells us why…
Hundreds of Jamaicans were among those to arrive on the Empire Windrush 70 years ago. But while the political controversy over the Windrush generation has raged, the Caribbean island is at the heart of another storm about the way cultural exports are treated by Britain and the rest of the world. From music to food,…
We’re joined by the photographer Fiona Compton and Don Letts, DJ, film-maker and organiser of the 50th anniversary celebrations of Trojan Records.
The Windrush scandal has brought the UK’s immigration system into the spotlight. But it’s not just those who came over to Britain decades ago who are concerned. Two young women who were born in the Caribbean but have lived here since they were children talk to us about how it feels to not be officially…