Exclusive: former transport minister criticises party’s direction and calls on Starmer to focus on issues like taxation and welfare reform Louise Haigh has urged Keir Starmer to avoid a “simplistic and naive” response by lurching to the right after Reform UK’s success in the local elections, in her first interview […]
Month: May 2025
George Simion will face centrist Bucharest mayor Nicușor Dan in runoff vote An ultranationalist who opposes military aid to Ukraine, has vilified the EU’s leaders, and calls himself Donald Trump’s “natural ally” has won the first round of Romania’s rerun presidential vote and will face a centrist in the runoff, […]
Exclusive: Too many people at risk of becoming ‘martyrs’ by not getting symptoms checked as they do not want to burden health service, report warns Too many people are at risk of becoming “martyrs” by not getting symptoms of cancer checked out because they do not want to burden the […]
President calls films ‘national security threat’ and claims he called on commerce department to immediately enact tariff Donald Trump on Sunday announced on his Truth Social platform a 100% tariff on all movies “produced in Foreign Lands”, saying the US film industry was dying a “very fast death” due to […]
Cross-party group’s report emphasises risk of failure after finding 3.5 million people not getting care they need A cross-party group of MPs has warned attempts to reform adult social care are doomed to fail unless ministers accept major investment is needed to overhaul a “broken” system that was failing millions […]
Over five-year period Oksana Shahar – who cares for her son – was paid a small amount more than carer’s allowance earnings limits allow It was three weeks after Christmas when the bombshell letter arrived. Guy Shahar and his wife, Oksana, looked at each other in stunned disbelief. They had […]
Exclusive: Ministers understood to be drafting white paper this month in move to reduce legal migration Ministers will crack down on international students applying for asylum in the UK in a move designed to tackle migration figures, after a series of bruising losses to Reform in the local elections. An […]
Opposition leader Peter Dutton fails to dissociate himself from Trump-like rhetoric and policies – and loses his seat Anthony Albanese profile: the Australian PM who led Labor to victory Australian election live updates; Live results tracker Australia’s centre-left prime minister, Anthony Albanese, has won a second term with a crushing […]
Exclusive: Treasury threat an example of ‘scare tactics’ to help force through private sector deal, sources suggest Whitehall officials have been at loggerheads over the fate of Thames Water since the Treasury told the environment department that it would have to meet the cost of a multibillion pound temporary nationalisation. […]
Arrests carried out in London, Swindon and Greater Manchester after discovery of alleged plot targeting ‘specific premises’ UK police have arrested five men, including four Iranian nationals, on suspicion of “terrorism offences”, police have said. The arrests were carried out in London, Swindon and the Greater Manchester area and were […]