With exactly one year until the potential Brexit cliff edge, the Express and Indy invoke national iconography in slightly differing ways …
Bercow blasts ‘sexist’ Boris
Speaker John Bercow blasts Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson for being 'sexist' in attacking Shadow Foreign Secretary, Emily Thornberry pic.twitter.com/u3toLsNvhs
— Richard Morris (@imrichardmorris) March 27, 2018
Most-liked Facebook comment on Corbyn anti-semitism statement: “I don’t know what the problem is”
With the row over anti-semitism in the Labour Party reaching fever pitch, Jeremy Corbyn has offered his most clear recognition yet “that antisemitism has occurred in pockets within the Labour Party”:
Labour is an anti-racist party and I utterly condemn antisemitism, which is why as leader of the Labour Party I want to…
Posted by Jeremy Corbyn on Sunday, March 25, 2018
One of the central charges by those calling for tougher action on the issue is the point-blank refusal of some party members to even recognise that there is a problem.
By way of illustration, here are the top two comments on his official Facebook statement, as determined by interactions from other users. With 879 likes, 66 hearts and 19 LOLs:
Nigel Farage was just reported for fly-tipping after dumping dead fish into the Thames
Nigel Farage dumped a load of dead fish into the Thames this afternoon in protest against the government’s Brexit transition deal, which will affect fishing quotas.
But the stunt may have backfired…
Someone’s responded by reporting the ex-UKIP leader to Westminster City Council for fly-tipping, a crime which carries an unlimited fine or even a prison sentence.
Revealed: Cambridge Analytica parent company director donated over £700,000 to Tories
The director of the parent company of Cambridge Analytica may have donated up to £700,000 to the Tory party over the past 15 years
Roger Gabb, a director of SCL Group and one of its founding members, donated £500,000 to the Tory Party in 2006 The Times established, but the businessman may have given even more than this.
REVEALED: UKIP could be closer to bankruptcy than previously thought
Rumours are swirling that UKIP may be facing bankruptcy over outstanding legal fees, owing £175,000 in a libel case brought against the party by three Labour MPs.
But Scrapbook can reveal – after having gained access to the party’s credit rating report – that the party may be have even greater trouble settling the bill than previously thought…
UKIP have a credit rating of just 26 out of 100, deeming them ‘high risk’, and entitling them to borrow the princely sum of… £0.
The woman who bankrupted UKIP?
With UKIP and its MEP Jane Collins on the wrong end of a libel action by three Labour MPs, speculation is rife that the resulting legal bill will push the party into bankruptcy.
After accusing opponents of ignoring sexual abuse in Rotherham, Collins is on the hook for £600,000 in costs and damages, while her party faces a £175,000 bill for – in the words of Mr Justice Warby – a “deliberate, informed and calculated decision, for reasons of party political advantage, to ensure that the case was not settled before the general election”.
So how did Jane Collins come to join UKIP in the first place? Her official party bio explains:
Red faces in True Blue Northamptonshire: pro-austerity MPs shift blame
With Northamptonshire County Council (NCC) becoming the first local authority to see its finances effectively collapse, former council leader Heather Smith told the BBC:
“We have been warning government from about 2013-14 that, with our financial position, we couldn’t cope with the levels of cuts we were facing.
But this isn’t merely a Conservative-run county council … every single MP in the East Midlands county just happens to be a Tory.
‘Christian Russia’: Brexit-backer Arron Banks questions Russia link in Salisbury attack
Brexit-backing businessman Aaron Banks – who donated millions to Leave.EU and has previously had lunch with the Russian ambassador – has been busy on Twitter in recent days questioning Russia’s involvement with the Salisbury attack …
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Salisbury attack police force had ‘impossible’ £14.3m and 250 jobs cut by the Tories
Frontline policing in Wiltshire – the force who responded to the attack in Salisbury – would be ‘impossible’ if proposed Tory cuts went ahead, Chief Constable of Wiltshire Police Michael Veale warned in 2015.