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    It was all meant to be so straightforward. Head to Cornwall, lock the media in a large cupboard, walk around a factory, eat some chips, then stand in front of some TV cameras saying the words strong and stable leadership" over and over and over and over again. And it would have been straightforward, but for the minor setback that our Prime Minister cannot eat a chip without displaying utter contempt for everything a chip is and everything a chip stands for. theresa-may-cornwall-2.jpg In Theresa May’s defence, not everyone is so aggressively photographed in the act of chip consumption. It may be that all of us, without even realising, eat our chips while simultaneously staring at them in complete disgust. Perhaps we are all, at the moment of biting into a chip, so taken by ...

    Theresa May has warned Jean-Claude Juncker that she will prove to be a bloody difficult woman during Brexit negotiations after he accused her of being deluded. The Prime Minister said that the process will be tough as she said that voters have to choose whether she or Jeremy Corbyn will be sitting around the negotiating table. She said: Look I think what we've seen recently is that at times these negotiations are going to be tough. Now during the Conservative Party leadership campaign I was described by one of my colleagues as a bloody difficult woman. And I said at the time the next person to find that out will be Jean-Claude Juncker. She made the comments after a German newspaper reported that after a Downing Street dinner on Wednesday Mr Juncker accused Mrs May of being...

    British Prime Minister Theresa May addresses supporters at an election campaign rally on May 1, 2017 in Mawdesley Village Hall near Ormskirk, England. After campaigning on the doorsteps of… The future of Britain’s power supply has been jeopardised by Brexit and the government must act urgently to ensure nuclear power stations stay open, MPs have warned. The influential business, energy and industrial strategy committee said that any gap between the UK leaving a European atomic power treaty and entering into secure alternative deals would “severely inhibit nuclear trade and research and threaten power supplies”. The cross-party group of MPs said it shared the nuclear industry’s concern that it would take more than two years to hammer out a new deal for regulating nuclear po...

    Airports are funny places where time can stand still, you find it acceptable to drink in the morning and get a bargain on that perfume you've wanted for ages. But there are also strict rules people need to adhere to in airports if they don't want to get, well, arrested or if they don't want to worry other holidaymakers. Security has been made tighter in recent years and sometimes it feels like you can't even look in the direction of guards in case they suspect you of doing something wrong (clearly you're just feeling guilty about the huge bag of sweets you bought for the plane). Staff at Newcastle airport were not impressed this week after two men got on the luggage carousel at check-in and allegedly "pretended to be suitcases" getting as far as the departure lounge. This ...

    Labour is being urged to form a pact with the Green Party to ensure the Tories do not win in a landslide come 8 June. Senior Labour figures, including former shadow cabinet minister Clive Lewis, musician Billy Bragg and ex-policy chief Jon Cruddas asked their party to stand aside in two seats where it has no realistic hope of winning, hoping the Greens would return the favour. The news comes after the Green Party pulled out of crucial election seats in Ealing and Brighton Kemptown to help Labour MP Rupa Huq beat the Conservatives. The two Labour seats at stake are in Brighton Pavilion, held by Green Party co-leader Caroline Lucas, and the Isle of Wight, where Tory MP Andrew Turner is standing down after reportedly railing against homosexuality to a group of A-level student...