gibe - an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect; his parting shot was `drop dead'; she threw shafts of sarcasm; she takes a dig at me every chance she gets. Synonyms: barb, jibe, shaft, dig, slam, shot.
Plymouth City Council Leader hits back against budget cuts. Tudor Evans, Leader of Plymouth City Council, hits back against the cuts the budget brings to Plymouth. Tudor said: Over the last year George Osborne announced more cuts to support for local councils, saying that the gap would be made up by councils getting more business rates by 2020.
Theresa Mary May (nÃ©e Brasier; born 1 October 1956) is the current Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and the Leader of the Conservative Party, in office since July 2016. She has also been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Maidenhead since 1997. May identifies as a one-nation conservative and is characterised as a liberal conservative and christian democrat. She is the second woman to hold the post of UK Prime Minister, after Margaret Thatcher (1979-1990).