Far-right politician Marine Le Pen declares she will run in the 2022 French presidential election and says victory over Emmanuel Macron is ‘plausible’ President Macron’s handling of Covid-19 have dented his chances of re-election Marine Le Pen has promised an immigration referendum as her first act in office She lost the 2017 presidential election to … Read more
Labour council chief is suspended after secret recording of him calling female Plaid Cymru politician a ‘cow’ appeared online Rob Jones made comments during meeting he didn’t know was being recorded Council leader has been suspended from while an investigation is carried out Mr Jones says clip was made without knowledge and consent and was … Read more
Any wiggle room? Kiwi politician Simon Bridges begs government to let The Wiggles into New Zealand for national tour – after the band failed to secure spots in quarantine By Monique Friedlander For Daily Mail Australia Published: 23:13 GMT, 20 January 2021 | Updated: 23:14 GMT, 20 January 2021 Kiwi politician Simon Bridges has issued … Read more
Amir Khan has breached Covid-19 regulations again after meeting up-close a senior Pakistani politician who tested positive for the virus just 48 hours later. Khan shook hands and posed for pictures with Usman Buzdar, Chief Minister of Punjab province, during a high-profile boxing event on 19 December that he helped organise in the country. But … Read more
A Namibian politician named after Adolf Hitler says he is being unfairly scrutinised – rejecting comparisons to the Nazi leader and insisting that ‘I am not like him’. Adolf Hitler Uunona’s victory at a regional election last month propelled him to an unlikely international stardom, but the 54-year-old has bristled at the attention and accused … Read more
Adolf Hitler wins election in Namibia: Politician named after Nazi leader sweeps to victory but promises ‘I’m not striving for world domination’ Adolf Hitler Uunona was elected with 85 per cent of the vote in a regional poll He said his father had named him Hitler without realising what the name meant Former German colony … Read more
‘I appeal to you – eat this fish’: Sri Lankan politician bites into raw fish during bizarre press conference to prove it will not give people coronavirus Former fisheries minister Dilip Wedaarachchi, 63, bit into the medium-sized fish Tens of thousands of tonnes of fish been left unsold after the Central Fish Market The outbreak … Read more
Cambridge students are calling for a ‘transphobic’ Labour politician to be suspended from his job as a porter at Clare College after he resigned from the council in protest over a motion in support of transgender rights. Kevin Price, who represented King’s Hedges for more than 10 years, refused to support the Lib Dem motion … Read more
The following Tory politician may well sound familiar. He is a shameless adulterer, has at least one illegitimate daughter, fell out with another, boasts he is a ‘character’, loves posing for ‘selfies’ with the public, says it is time to put Brexit ‘in the past’, and wants to depose a female Tory Prime Minister who … Read more
The first transgender politician to reach high office in Belgium has been attacked online by a far-right politician just days after she was appointed. Vice Premier Petra De Sutter, 57, of the Green Party was sworn in as part of a new government on Saturday, posting on social media that she was ‘proud that in … Read more