Sir Mark Rowley has defended his officers after six anti-monarchy protesters were arrested and detained for sixteen hours. The commissioner of the Metropolitan Police said it was unfortunate those arrested could not protest, but supported the actions of his officers. Sir Mark also said the Met had had growing concerns that protesters would use rape …
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Patrick Grady, the MP for Glasgow since 2015, was suspended from the Commons for two days in 2022 after inappropriately touching a party worker on a night out. Commons watchdogs described the incident as “unwelcome physical touching” with “sexual intent” and concluded that it was a breach of the parliament’s sexual misconduct policy. Despite the …
The leader of the anti-monarchy group Republic has spoken out after being arrested in London on Saturday morning. Graham Smith, who was one of 64 people arrested, has stated that the Metropolitan Police had “every intention” of arresting him before the event. He went on to say he’d been in close conversation with the Police …
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A few of us agreed to make a go of it in the early hours of Wednesday 19th April. We are less than three weeks in and so much has been achieved already: Tonight we are very pleased to announce the Party has been formally founded and we are now operating under our Constitution. The …
The chief executive of the Post Office, Nick Read, will return part of his £450,000 bonus for last year, after a rebuke from the chairman of the inquiry into the Horizon computer scandal. The Horizon inquiry is investigating how hundreds of sub-postmasters became victims of a vast miscarriage of justice. They were blamed for discrepancies …
Today, The Herald newspaper’s main writer Neil Mackay devoted four whole pages to a feature piece on the formation of our Homeland Party. While it was filled with many inaccuracies – which we won’t correct, as you should never interrupt your enemy when they are making mistakes – it is worth me making comment on …
On Saturday 6th May 2023, the UK will mark an important date in its history. We will all bear witness to the coronation of King Charles III, where both he and his Queen consort Camilla will be crowned King and Queen respectively. For some people who are in favour of the monarchy, this occasion will …
A wealthy Nigerian politician, his wife and a doctor have been jailed for nine, four and ten years respectively by a court in London. They were found guilty of trafficking a 21-year-old man from Lagos to the UK for the purpose of illegally harvesting his kidney for a transplant for their seriously ill daughter. Ike …
As people headed for the polling booths yesterday campaigners claim to have seen countless examples of voters being turned away from polling stations for not having sufficient identification. Jess Garland, the Electoral Reform Society’s director of policy and research, said: “We’re already seeing countless examples of people being denied their right to vote due to …
A South London councillor who had been suspended from the Conservative group in relation to a tweet he made on 8th October 2022 has recently been reinstated. Councillor John Bexley, who represents the West Heath ward for Bexley Council, made a tweet referencing Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who was released from prison by the Iranian Government earlier …
