A Labour MP was today criticised over her 'complete ignorance' after she claimed it's 'quite hard to find a poor farmer'. Dame Siobhain McDonagh, MP for Mitcham and Morden in south London, provoked a backlash as she defended Chancellor Rachel Reeves' inheritance tax raid. Under changes dubbed a 'family farm tax', farmers will have to pay a 20 per cent …
She was diagnosed with a brain tumour after suffering from a series of fits in November 2021 and died last year. Siobhain and Lady McDonagh were born and brought up in the area and bought a house there together in the 1990s, where they had lived for almost 25 years when Lady McDonagh fell ill in 2021. But when things …
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A mother has been charged with murdering her five-year-old daughter after police were called to a 'bloodbath' in a London home. Sutha Sivanantham, 35, was charged with murdering Sayagi Sivanantham in south London Met Police launched a murder investigation into the incident after the child was found 'lifeless' Forensic teams and uniformed officers were seen outside the property in Mitcham …
