Withdrawal of backing for Graham Jones, candidate for Hyndburn, follows Starmer’s action against Azhar Ali in Rochdale Labour has suspended a second parliamentary candidate over their remarks about Israel, as Keir Starmer struggles to contain the fallout from the leak of a private meeting of party activists in Lancashire last […]
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Broadcaster worked at BBC Radio 1 and Radio 2 for more than 40 years, garnering millions of devoted listeners • Tribute: so much more than a DJ Tributes have been paid to the DJ Steve Wright, for decades the voice of the BBC on afternoon radio, who has died at […]
Alejandro Mayorkas, rebuked by Republicans who voted against key immigration bill, first to face such punishment in over 150 years The US House of Representatives has voted to impeach Alejandro Mayorkas, Joe Biden’s secretary of homeland security, on explicitly political charges related to conditions at the southern border as Republicans […]
Party no longer campaigning for Azhar Ali, who suggested Israel had allowed 7 October attack to happen Labour has withdrawn its support for Azhar Ali, its candidate for this month’s Rochdale byelection, in the wake of controversial comments he made about the 7 October attacks on Israel. In line with […]
Measures would include making it easier to get planning permission to build on derelict sites in urban areas Rishi Sunak will announce a series of proposed changes to the planning system on Tuesday to encourage developers to build more homes, in a move designed to boost development in urban areas […]
Government plans to deliver SMRs ‘lack clarity’ say environmental committee, and will likely fail to meet clean-energy goal of 2035 MPs have warned that a planned fleet of small nuclear reactors are unlikely to contribute to hitting a key target in decarbonising Britain’s electricity generation, as the government opened talks […]
Politicians say Palestinians sheltering in the southern city in Gaza have nowhere else to go See all our Israel-Gaza coverage Joe Biden has added his voice to growing international calls for Israel to drop plans for an all-out military assault on the city of Rafah, in southern Gaza, after a […]
Exclusive: Esther Ghey says she believes social media use left her daughter vulnerable, while killers were able to access violent content online ‘I want to make things better’: Esther Ghey on her hopes for online reform The mother of Brianna Ghey has called for her murder to be a “tipping […]
Police fire teargas on supporters of Imran Khan amid turmoil as several parties claim they would be forming government Police fired teargas to disperse supporters of Imran Khan as protests broke out across Pakistan amid allegations of widespread vote-rigging targeting the former prime minister’s political party and other nationalist groups […]
Exclusive: Push follows new evidence that raises questions over Home Office’s cheating accusations against 35,000 international students ‘It destroyed my life’: the students accused of cheating in English tests What is the Home Office English test scandal? International students accused of cheating at English-language tests are planning a fresh push […]