Portland mayor mounts legal challenge against council over Bibby Stockholm

Urgent hearing comes days before Home Office is due to return asylum seekers to barge in Portland

Boris Johnson calls coronavirus a 'massive opportunity' the Tories can exploit

Speaking to Tory activists, the Prime Minister said his party would use the fallout from the pandemic to 'short-circuit' the state and slash taxes

Working class deserting Tories in droves under Rishi Sunak, poll finds

But report says Labour lead is much narrower among working-class voters than electorate as a whole and urges focus on fairness

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Petition: Give one-person households 50% council tax discount rather than 25%

We believe people living on their own are unfairly burdened by the high cost of council tax, as they only receive a 25% discount.