Former Labour MP was favourite after party abandoned its candidate over inflammatory Israel comments The veteran political agitator George Galloway has won the Rochdale byelection after urging voters to lodge “the ultimate protest” over the conflict in Gaza. Galloway, one of the most divisive politicians in Britain, was the frontrunner […]
Month: March 2024
Inquiry into serial sexual offender Wayne Couzens outlines multiple failings by police forces The full extent of Wayne Couzens’ alleged offending was laid bare in a devastating official report that revealed accusations of serial sexual abuse including rapes, before he used his status as a police officer to kidnap and […]
Israeli military denies shooting into large crowds of hungry people and says most were killed in crush or run over trying to escape More than a hundred Palestinians were killed in the early hours of Thursday morning, Gaza health officials said, when desperate crowds gathered around aid trucks and Israeli […]
Gap projected to reach £228,800 a head by 2030, according to report by thinktank IPPR North Wealth inequality between the north and south of England is set to grow, with the gap reaching £228,800 per head by 2030, according to a thinktank report. The Institute for Public Policy Research North’s […]
Disclosure, calculated on basis of 300 deportations, called ‘staggering’ by chair of home affairs committee Rishi Sunak’s flagship plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda will cost taxpayers £1.8m for each of the first 300 people the government deports to Kigali, Whitehall’s official spending watchdog has disclosed. The overall cost […]