MPs who stood against new leader made shadow chancellor, foreign secretary and justice secretary respectively Kemi Badenoch has appointed Robert Jenrick shadow justice secretary, with Mel Stride shadow chancellor and Priti Patel shadow foreign secretary, as she began to put together a frontbench team billed as uniting the Conservatives. There […]
Georgia will be among the first key states to close at 7pm ET, while Hawaii and Alaska will collect ballots until 12am ET US elections 2024 – live updates After a historic US election cycle that saw the incumbent president step down from his party’s ticket and two assassination attempts […]
On election day eve we checked in with the people, many in swing states, working to ensure all votes are counted In Fulton county, Georgia, they’re on guard for efforts to undermine democracy from Republican members of the state elections board. In Luzerne county, Pennsylvania, they’re defending themselves as conspiracy […]
Samir Shah’s speech to say public service broadcasting is a British success story that must not be allowed to die out The “fight is on” for the future of British programming at the BBC, the corporation’s new chair is expected to say in his first big speech. Samir Shah will […]
High court approves judicial review of rules denying some women exception to two-child limit on universal credit Two mothers who had children as a result of rape or coercion by former partners have been given permission to take the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to court for being denied […]
Kamala Harris targets youth vote in Michigan while Donald Trump heads to Georgia as US presidential election nears final hours We have already covered the presidential nominees’ schedules but what are their running mates up to? Tim Walz will be in North Carolina this evening. The Queen City News says […]
Exclusive: frontbencher calls absence ‘serious embarrassment and blind spot’ after Tories elect first black leader Senior Labour MPs have expressed their frustration at the lack of black representation in No 10 as the Conservatives elected Kemi Badenoch as their new leader. Labour sources said the WhatsApp group for Labour MPs […]
Incumbent wins presidential runoff with 97% of votes counted, defeating Russia-leaning rival The pro-western incumbent Maia Sandu has won a second term in office in the Moldovan presidential election, preliminary results have shown, marking a significant boost for the country’s EU aspirations and a clear rebuke to Moscow. The runoff […]
Commandos land in northern Lebanon in highly unusual operation to capture supposed militant group member Middle East crisis – live updates The Israeli military abducted who it said was a senior Hezbollah official in an unprecedented operation on Saturday morning during which Israeli commandos landed on the shores of Batroun, […]
In shocking result that could reshape the race, ex-president falls three points behind in a state he won in 2016 and 2020 A poll in Iowa that has unexpectedly put Kamala Harris ahead of Donald Trump in what was previously expected to be a safe state for the Republicans has […]