Day: May 21, 2017

    Almost one million children from poor backgrounds will lose the right to free school meals if lunch snatcher Theresa May pushes through cuts in the Conservative manifesto, an educational think tank has warned. The Prime Minister announced last week that universal free lunches for infants will be stopped if the Tories win the June 8 General Election, with free breakfasts on offer instead. The move will cost families around £440 a year for each child affected and is thought likely to save around £650 million a year, according to the research by the Education Policy Institute (EPI). In analysis conducted for The Observer, the EPI found that those losing hot lunches would include 100,000 from families living in relative poverty and 667,000 which it defined as coming from ordin...

    Britains's Prime Minister Theresa May gestures as she gives a speech at the launch of the Scottish manifesto on May 19, 2017 in Edinburgh, Scotland. Brussels must pay its own Brexit bill of billions of pounds for Britain's share of the European Investment Bank and other joint projects, Theresa May has indicated. The Prime Minister says in an interview with The Sunday Telegraph that money paid in the past by the UK must be taken into account in the final divorce bill. She insisted that the UK has financial rights that must be respected during discussions about payments as well as obligations to the body it is leaving. The intervention is a clear rejection of hardline EU countries who have argued that the UK should not get back its proportion of EU assets. Reports from Bruss...

    Middleton in her Giles Deacon dress. Six years after being maid of honour for her older sister, Pippa Middleton is to marry James Matthews. Saturday’s ceremony was to be a little less grand in scale. While Kate and Prince William married in Westminster Abbey, the new couple were tying the knot at St Mark’s church in the village of Englefield, near Reading in Berkshire. Middleton arrived at the church shortly before midday, accompanied by her father, Michael, and wearing a bespoke Giles Deacon dress. Designed to create the impression of being seamless, the dress was teamed with a Stephen Jones veil, a Maidenhair Fern tiara, and Manolo Blahnik ivory satin shoes. There was plenty of royalty attending what was being called the society wedding of the year. The congregation incl...