Former Labour MP Lloyd Russell-Moyle joins Greens

Chancellor is expected to increase duties bookies and casinos pay, ending months of speculation and lobbying Gambling companies don’t lose very often but nor are they usually playing a game of poker against the chancellor of the exchequer. At next week’s budget, Rachel Reeves is widely expected to announce an increase in the duties that bookies and casinos pay to the Treasury, ending months of speculation and frenzied lobbying designed to sway the government. Continue reading… Source link

Voters need to know if a party leader said racist things at school. Interviewers have a duty to keep pressing for fuller facts For one contemporary, it is the hectoring tone of today that evokes what it was like to be at school with Nigel Farage. “He would sidle up to me and growl: ‘Hitler was right’ or ‘Gas them’,” Peter Ettedgui recalls when asked about life at fee-paying Dulwich College in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Later, he adds: “I’d hear him calling other students ‘Paki’ or ‘Wog’ and urging them to ‘go home’.” For others, including some in the college’s…

Clive Lewis says he would step down to allow Mayor Andy Burnham the chance to become Labour leader. Source link