Commuter who dodged £20,000 of fares is finally caught after buying cheaper tickets and using invalid railcard discount
This is the moment a rail fare dodger was finally caught by investigators after evading nearly £20,000 in ticket costs in one of Britain’s biggest ever cases of its kind. The offender had been paying for only a small part…
Labour child benefits civil war as Angela Rayner ‘demands middle class parents who earn £60,000 a year lose payout’ while Starmer ‘clashes with chief aide’ over handouts for big families
Labour‘s civil war looks to be intensifying today amid claims Angela Rayner pushed to strip child benefit from middle-class families. The Deputy PM suggested the Chancellor should ‘claw back’ the handouts from families where one adult earns over £50,000 a year. The…
The migrant tent cities springing up in the suburb where one in every 112 residents is an asylum seeker
Mini ‘tent cities’ have sprung up in a West London borough where councillors say they are struggling to cope with supporting thousands of asylum seekers. Hillingdon had supported 89 asylum seekers out of every 10,000 residents at the end of last year…
Angela Rayner ‘urges Rachel Reeves to strip child benefits for middle-class families’ – as pair’s ‘feud’ continues
Angela Rayner has encouraged Rachel Reeves to strip middle-class families of child benefits payments, it has been claimed. The Labour Deputy Prime Minister urged the treasury to ‘claw back’ the benefit from families where the top earner’s annual salary was somewhere between £50,000 and £80,000, The…
Energy bills set to DROP in Britain in a matter of weeks as Ofgem reveals latest price cap – and it all stems from an unlikely reason
Household energy bills will fall by 7 per cent from July, Ofgem confirmed today. The typical bill will drop by £129 to £1,720 per year when the regulator’s new price cap – which sets the limit on how much firms can charge…
Downing Street refuses to confirm when more pensioners will get winter fuel cash
Keir Starmer U-turned on winter fuel payment in the Commons (Image: PA) Downing Street was unable to say how many more pensioners would receive winter fuel payments or whether the reforms would be in place this winter. The Prime Minister’s official spokesman said Sir…
Angela Rayner’s biggest promise is going up in flames – it should have been so obvious
Conservative councillor Mieka Smiles has slammed Angela Rayner’s plans (Image: Getty) Well knock me down with a feather – it seems that Angela Rayner’s plot to concrete over England’s beautiful greenbelt is not quite going to plan. The Deputy PM initially came out all guns…
Liz Kendall defies Labour critics to press ahead with ‘killer’ cuts
Liz Kendal (Image: Getty) Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall vowed to defy Labour critics and press ahead with benefit cuts of £5 billion as she warned they were needed to defeat Nigel Farage and Reform at the ballot box. Around 100 Labour…
Reform UK’s Richard Tice rows back on huge £90bn tax cut promise
Richard Tice speaking at Reform’s Birmingham rally (Image: Getty) Richard Tice has backtracked on Reform’s promise of £90billion tax cuts within the first few months of the party winning a general election. Reform’s deputy leader insisted the promise in the July manifesto was meant only to…
Starmer has been PM for 320 days and he’s already made 13 humiliating U-turns
Keir Starmer has changed his mind on a range of issues (Image: Getty) Sir Keir Starmer announced today that the Government is going to increase the number of pensioners who qualify for the winter fuel payment, just months after ministers cut the number that are eligible….