4 h. ago Diane Abbott slams Labour's 'disastrous' local elections and sends ten

Veteran Labour MP Diane Abbott has sent a strong warning to her Labour colleagues after her party suffered 'disastrous' results at the local elections last week

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4 d. ago Diane Abbott criticises Government for rejecting Sentencing Council guidance

New guidelines from the independent Sentencing Council were scheduled to come into force earlier this month but were delayed.

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4 d. ago Nigel Farage underling battered in brutal debate on Trump, tax and support for kids

Reform politican Alex Wilson endured a rough hour in a Channel 4 local election debate which covered Donald Trump, SEND provision, housing, taxes and ousted MP Rupert Lowe

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9 d. ago ‘A sweeping catastrophe’: 20 years after Hurricane Katrina, a photo exhibit honors Mississippi victims

Hurricane Katrina: Mississippi Remembers captures the grief and resilience of survivors in the Magnolia stateTwenty years ago this August, the United States Gulf coast was irrevocably changed when Hurricane Katrina, one of the deadliest and costliest storms to ever hit the country, made landfall. Making landfall as a strong category 3, the storm, which was so vast it stretched the length of the Mississippi Gulf coast all the way into Alabama, hit the Mississippi-Louisiana coastal border before continuing northward.Since then, superstorms fueled by the climate crisis have become relatively commonplace in the country, but the impact of Katrina endures to this day. Immediately following the storm, the country and world were enthralled by tragic stories out of New Orleans, where the levees failed to a catastrophic effect and the local, state and federal responses were disastrous. But Mississippi, which received the maximum impact from the storm surge, was largely left out of the nationa...

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1 week ago Government Bill to block new sentencing guidelines clears first Commons test

The proposals were brought forward following claims of a ‘two-tier’ justice system.

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1 week ago Labour slammed after admitting firms that help veterans into work could lose vital tax breaks

The disclosure sparked accusations of a 'betrayal' of war heroes as it would land firms who employ them with a tax bombshell.

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2 w. ago Fundraising shows something clear: Democratic voters want fighters

Analysis: From progressives like AOC, Jasmine Crockett and Bernie Sanders to mainstream Democrats like Jon Ossoff and Mark Kelly, Democrats are sending their money to elected officials they think will aggressively oppose Trump. Eric Garcia reports

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2 w. ago 'Disastrous' private construction schemes accounting for £18.6 million of council tax in West Lothian

Angela Constance MSP fears that the Chancellor could be set to reintroduce PFI

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4 w. ago David Lammy slams 'unacceptable' detention of two Labour MPs refused entry to Israel

The Foreign Secretary said it was 'unacceptable, counterproductive and deeply concerning' that Yuan Yang and Abtisam Mohamed were held and then deported.

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