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    A rickshaw driver has been filmed trying to charge tourists more than £200 for a journey of one mile that look less than 10 minutes. YouTube footage showed the rickshaw cyclist arguing that the fee had been agreed and his customers must pay. The mother and her son, who appeared not to speak very good English, had already handed over £100. The incident was filmed by a black cab driver, who was outraged. Two policemen are seen intervening to tell the cyclist that he was “ripping off” the tourists. The man was not doing anything illegal because there are currently no regulations for rickshaw rides, and drivers can charge customers what they like. Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London, said the incident showed the need to regulate the rickshaw industry. A spokesman for the...

    John Bercow fought back a tear as he paid his own tribute to the former Lib Dem leader John Bercow spent £172 on a journey of less than a mile, figures released by the House of Commons have revealed. The cost of the 0.7 mile journey was disclosed in receipts published following a Freedom of Information request that expose the remarkable cost to the taxpayer of the Speaker’s travel arrangements. Mr Bercow took an official car to travel to Canterbury to see Archbishop Justin Welby enthroned in 2013 at a cost to the taxpayer of £524. A journey of 1.8 miles to Margaret Thatcher’s funeral set the taxpayer back by £158. And the cost to the public purse for the Speaker to travel to the University of Bedfordshire to give a lecture on reforming Parliament following the “adapt ...

    Acting Labour party leader Harriet Harman Labour was on Monday night in disarray after a fifth of the party's MPs rebelled during a vote on Tory welfare reforms. Around 48 Labour MPs openly defied interim leader Harriet Harman by refusing to abstain on the Government's welfare bill which was passed with 308 votes in favour and 124 against. Miss Harman believes that her party should not oppose all of George Osborne's benefits cuts in a bid to avoid the charge that Labour is the "party of welfare". Rather than voting against the bill, Miss Harman wanted her backbenchers to vote for a Labour amendment and to then abstain on the second reading of the welfare. But scores of furious Labour MPs decided to vote against the bill, with a number accusing Miss Harman of being "a ...