Politics

The BBC's analysis editor looks at what the number of independent candidates at the general election reveals about our political system. Source link

Rishi Sunak said there was a “danger" of a Labour government that he did not want the UK to sleepwalk into.The Conservative leader told BBC political editor Chris Mason that could lead to taxes going up, plus a lack of pension protection and migration controls.He said he understood voters' frustrations with himself and with his party. Source link

[ad_1] Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell says he won't be appearing on Russia Today any more and will encourage Labour colleagues to follow his lead.He told the BBC's Andrew Marr show the Kremlin-backed TV station had crossed a line after the Salisbury spy poisoning and gone beyond "objective journalism". [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionRichard Leonard says he is angry with the "callousness of the Tories and the complacency of the SNP" Richard Leonard has used his Scottish Labour conference speech to underline his "mission" to "fundamentally change" the economic system.The party leader told delegates in Dundee that "our economy needs less market and more planning".Mr Leonard also proposed reforms to the rental sector and

[ad_1] Marina Litvinenko, the widow of ex-Russian agent Alexander Litvinenko who died in London from radioactive polonium, says she was given assurances this wouldn't happen again. [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] Image copyright Getty Images Image caption The HMRC said the pensioners received a "coding notice in error" About 17,000 ex-mineworkers were wrongly told they owed thousands of pounds in tax due to an error.One of them was 79-year-old Michael Hinchley, from Nottinghamshire, who said he was shocked after being told in a letter he owed £26,000. Capita, the administrator for the Mineworkers' Pension Scheme, said the tax code letters